"On impact, the mine leaps one meter (3 ft) into the air and explodes, sending out hundreds of small metal shards in every direction. It has a 'lethal radius' of 25 meters and can cause wounds up to 300 meters away.

'It punctures your organs in a hundred places, the victim then generally goes into shock and dies a slow, painful death'"

There are still millions of mines in the ground of Northern Iraq.

Good movies I've seen lately:
Scenes from a Marriage - Ingmar Bergman's bleak (surprise!) film about marriage... reminds me of Faithless, an even better movie, which was also written by Bergman
Proof - Australian film about a blind photographer
Secrets & Lies - adoption, working class families, people hating and neglecting one another unecessarily

"Only a small percentage of hunger deaths are caused by starvation. Most hunger-related deaths are the result of chronic undernutrition, which weakens the body's ability to ward off diseases, prevalent in poverty-stricken communities" --Hunger Basics FAQ

Word of the day:
sententious - Terse and energetic in expression, abounding in aphorisms, or abounding in pompous moralizing

"Leonel Herrera (Texas) Herrera presented affidavits and exculpatory polygraph results from a variety of witnesses, including an eyewitness to the murder and a former Texas state judge, both of whom stated that someone else had committed the crime. However, the Supreme Court ruled that innocence alone does not justify a federal hearing on this evidence nor was federal habeas relief available for mere innocence."

NewYorkish

Police fabrication of evidence against protestors of G8 Summit:
"molotov cocktails were [planted] by police"
"[an] assault with a knife against an officer... was proven to be staged"
"high-ranking officers are being held responsible for false evidence and testimony on the part of police"
More...

National Mentoring Partnership
Mentoring Center
Mentoring USA
EMentoring

IRCT: International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims

Driving through Tennessee

Great "hidden bias" tests

William Gibson's blog

Word of the day:
cathexis: Concentration of emotional energy on an object or idea

But, is it art?
(Thanks to Jesse)

Israel's WOMD

Secrecy in the Executive Branch

"We would like to make all the sensors invisible and absolutely unobtrusive" --You are being watched

Cosmopolis by Paul Bourget

PreCC: A Prettier Compiler Compiler is an infinite-lookahead compiler-compiler for context dependent grammars. It "can be thought of as yacc with parameters, arbitrarily complex compound expressions, infinite lookahead and a neater way of dealing with attributes"
The Cocktail Compiler Toolbox
Lrc is a system for generating efficient incremental attribute evaluators. Lrc can be used to generate language based editors and other advanced interactive environments.
Micro Attribute Grammar System
FNC-2 Attribute Grammar System
Lecture on Attribute Grammars, more
Attribute Grammars Home Page