Anuj collected several accounts already, including a link back to a rant on stupid people.
Seems he's been having a bad run-o-luck in the vehicular department. :-( Maybe it's because he reads while driving? What the heck is Mobile Eye? I bet that's what beat me out for company. Jeez. You know it's bad when Research beats Roadtrip.
do exist - in quite organized fashion! Following this interview/declaration is an impressive list of links.
This December 11, 2005 NYTimes article refers to the Justice Department (distinct from the Dept of Homeland Security?):
"But the department has said that it had never used the provision to demand records from libraries or bookstores or to get information related to medical or gun records, areas that have prompted privacy concerns and protests from civil rights advocates, conservative libertarians and other critics of the law."
Wired put a story a few days ago (Dec 16) that leads with info on radical librarian Jessamyn West (from Vermont!), who wrote the declaration linked above. Her blog includes a link to today's Buffalo News story Bush intensifies rhetoric in battle over Patriot Act.
I enjoyed reading the excerpts from a collection of blogposts from Iraq about the recent elections.
Hassan An Average Iraqi includes pictures and more description.
The Kid Himself Eject: Iraqi Konfused Kollege Kid seems to have removed his original posting?
Riverbend Baghdad Burning includes "the lists" - party slates on his December 15th entry. Also can't locate the entry extracted by/for the NYTimes. Weird.
Finally, Najma A Star from Mosul indicates a competition between "list number 618 (Tawafuq Iraqi front) and list number 731 (National Iraqi list).
I guess it'll be a few weeks before the results are deemed official.
