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Friday Notes: Iowa-free Edition

Mark Story is a photographer sharing his latest work, Living in Three Centuries: The Face of Age, online.  Most of the subjects are well over 100.  Here’s your chance to look age in the face.

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“Have a Plan to Kill Everyone You Meet.”  That’s the sign inside a Marine forward operating base in Fallujah, and it’s posted with little – if any – irony.   It also helps provide the narrative construct in this very well written article by journalist Michael Totten.

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Iggy Pop’s The Passenger + Peggy Lee’s Fever = musical brilliance.  (really, follow this link)

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Early-bird registration for David Isenberg’s annual Freedom to Connect conference ends on Sunday.  I’ve been to a number of Isenberg’s events over the years, and I cannot recommend them enough.  If you’re interested in participating in a conversation (not simply hearing from) some of the top thinkers and actors in where the Internet is going, check it out.  I’ll probably write more about this later, but thought I’d give the heads up on the end of early-bird registration now.

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2 Comments

  1. Thank you for making this Iowa-free ;)

  2. Since I am late to everything, I thought I would comment on Saturday night instead. It was good to put the ‘name’ with the other name the other day when you mentioned to me on the diary at kos. I hope you understood that. It is Saturday night.

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