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None of this britta-filtered crap! Today we bring you some independent, first hand journalism: Back In Iraq 2.0: Epilogue: A Question of Truth

But thatís nothing compared to what the Iraqi people have had to go through, and what theyíre facing. To a certain degree, the same goes for the people of America who, it may be, were lied to about the reasons for this war.

An amazing account of a journey through Iraq. He has some insights into what’s going on that you won’t see on CNN or Fox News.

Yet more savvy diplomacy from our boy Bushie:

“I doubt he’ll be coming to the ranch any time soon,” was Mr Bush’s tart comment in an interview with NBC News, when asked about Jacques Chirac ñ a reference to the informal summits Mr Bush likes to hold with favoured foreign leaders at his cherished retreat in Crawford, Texas. Many in his administration ñ by implication, himself among them ñ had the impression “that the French position was anti-American”, the President said.

I almost hit 500 miles on one tank of fuel today, the final tally was 497.6 miles on 12.75 gallons of diesel. That works out to be about 39 mpg. I still can’t consistently break 40 mpg (really not all that bad). I’m pretty sure that the umm, poor, mileage is because the majority of my miles are the 1.6 miles to work in the morning and 1.6 on the way back. Not good for the mileage. And I like to stick my foot in it all the time.

Sometime soon Sonja and I are going to take a road trip to Chicago or something. We’ll see how the mileage goes then.

I’ve downloaded and given iTunes 4 a bit of a test. So far it looks pretty nice. The integration of the music store is pretty awesome, and the interface seems to be slightly refined. I haven’t had a chance to play with any of the sharing features yet, but we’ll give that a shot in a few days.

The Apple Music Store looks pretty good as well. The interface is dead easy. It will basically come down to whether or not people think $0.99 is the right price for a single. The downloads are fast, and they have a fairly vast catalog. It’s already been fun to browse around and listen to some samples.

I’ve been telling a few friends to hold off on their impending iPod purchase, and I’m glad they waited. The new revision looks very nice. I like the dock a lot, and i think the new user interface looks pretty nice as well.

Tomorrow I’m sure there will be tons of news and commentary on the whole situation, I’ll try and post a few interesting articles if I come across anything

Wow, wow, wow!

I’ve just ordered what possibly is the coolest iPod accessory. I had been waiting patiently to order it since the product was announced in January at Macworld. The iTrip
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I currently own an iRock, but the iTrip is a far more elegant solution:

It lets you tune to any station on the dial.
It doesn’t use any batteries, it draws power right from the iPod.
It fits right on the top of the iPod. The big problem with the iRock is that it dangles off and is a little unwieldy to manage when you are driving.

With any luck it will arrive tomorrow and I can post a little review. I’m hoping the power of the transmitter is as strong as the iRock, since that was one of its strong points, but I’m guessing the option to use any frequency will be very nice.

I’ll be very interested to see how this story develops. This the exact same crap the industries in the U.S. try to pull all the time. (Steel Tarriffs? The whole Tobacco Industry in general.)

The industry is furious at the guidelines, which say that sugar should account for no more than 10% of a healthy diet. It claims that the review by international experts which decided on the 10% limit is scientifically flawed, insisting that other evidence indicates that a quarter of our food and drink intake can safely consist of sugar.

“Taxpayers’ dollars should not be used to support misguided, non-science-based reports which do not add to the health and well-being of Americans, much less the rest of the world,” says the letter. “If necessary we will promote and encourage new laws which require future WHO funding to be provided only if the organisation accepts that all reports must be supported by the preponderance of science.”

Americans are some of the most overweight, unhealthy peoples in the world. If we can somehow reverse that trend, if it takes taxpayer money, go for it. In the long run it’ll probably save money as all the sugar-babies won’t end up in the hospital for various ailments in 30 years.