I've never seen them, but I would LOVE to see a production like this. This is a trailer for a video the band has coming out in the next month or so. Crank your speakers...
Wow!
Friday, August 22, 2008
I just thought about the fact that I had talked about Sakura on here...
It struck me that I never mentioned a newish pizza place right there in the same shopping center. Mama Mia's has some super-tasty pizza!
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
If you're anything like me....
You might not know a great deal about the current state of affairs in Georgia. That's where this nifty little internet thing comes in. For some fairly decent background information, here are some of the usual suspects:
CIA World Factbook entry on Georgia
Library of Congress country study on Georgia
UN Cyberschoolbus entry on Georgia
State Department info regarding Georgia
State Department background notes on Georgia
I found a goldmine of information about the background of the events in Georgia at another one of my favorite web haunts this afternoon. The site?
The Federation of American Scientists Secrecy News site.
In particular, FAS has posted a very recent Congressional Research Service report (08-13-08) entitled "Russia-Georgia Conflict in South Ossetia: Context and Implications for U.S. Interests".
You might ask why a product written to inform our elected folks in Congress (representing the people who pay for the CRS) is available at the FAS site but not at loc.gov or perhaps even another government site. Some answers can be found here (near the bottom). This stuff isn't confidential or anything like that. It's just darn good info. It's too bad that the general policy of CRS is to limit access to their work. As mentioned, FAS has a decent repository of CRS reports. Another site that provides access to a decent collection of these reports is opencrs.com. Enjoy!
P.S. - Two other relatively recent CRS reports about that part of the world are available via the US Diplomatic Mission to Italy's website. They are:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Security Issues and Implications for U.S. Interests
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests
CIA World Factbook entry on Georgia
Library of Congress country study on Georgia
UN Cyberschoolbus entry on Georgia
State Department info regarding Georgia
State Department background notes on Georgia
I found a goldmine of information about the background of the events in Georgia at another one of my favorite web haunts this afternoon. The site?
The Federation of American Scientists Secrecy News site.
In particular, FAS has posted a very recent Congressional Research Service report (08-13-08) entitled "Russia-Georgia Conflict in South Ossetia: Context and Implications for U.S. Interests".
You might ask why a product written to inform our elected folks in Congress (representing the people who pay for the CRS) is available at the FAS site but not at loc.gov or perhaps even another government site. Some answers can be found here (near the bottom). This stuff isn't confidential or anything like that. It's just darn good info. It's too bad that the general policy of CRS is to limit access to their work. As mentioned, FAS has a decent repository of CRS reports. Another site that provides access to a decent collection of these reports is opencrs.com. Enjoy!
P.S. - Two other relatively recent CRS reports about that part of the world are available via the US Diplomatic Mission to Italy's website. They are:
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Security Issues and Implications for U.S. Interests
Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Political Developments and Implications for U.S. Interests
Monday, August 18, 2008
I was perusing our little blue marble......
and I was stoked to find the high rise building where my family lived in Germany through the mid-1970s...
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Here's the link to view it in Google Earth.
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Here's the link to view it in Google Earth.
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