Neighbors in Abilene Don’t Like the Statue of David
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Michael Jordan’s Jet
I was listening to the Dan Patrick Show and they were describing Michael Jordan’s jet.
His Nike Jumpan logo is on the tail and the bottom the jet is outlined in Caroline Blue, his alma mater.
Regarding the tail number, the N is just part of aviation formality (my terminology may be a little off), the 23 is of course his jersey number, the six is for the six NBA championships (he should have gone for 7 which would have included an NCAA championship), and of course the MJ is for his initials.
On the bottom of one wing 23 and the other 9, his Olympic number.
You can read more about it here.
This post is dedicated to my friend, Tim.
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Taliban join the Twitter revolution
When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, they eschewed most modern technology, including television and music players.
But in the latest sign of the hardline movement’s rapprochement with at least some areas of the modern world, the Taliban have embraced microblogging.
Their Twitter feed, @alemarahweb, pumps out several messages a day, keeping 993 followers up to date with often highly exaggerated reports of strikes against the “infidel forces” and the “Karzai puppet regime”. Most messages are in Pashtu, with links to news stories on the elaborate and multilingual website of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, as the Taliban’s shadow government likes to style itself.
Today, the feed broke into English for the first time, with a tweet about an attack on police in Farah province: “Enemy attacked in Khak-e-Safid, 6 dead.”
There is not much lively banter between the “emirate” and its Twitter followers, save for a cheerful “asalam alekum” sent last week to the Kavkaz Centre, a militant news site covering jihad in the Caucasus.
Many of the story links are broken as the Taliban’s official website, regularly evicted from servers or shut down by authorities, is constantly on the move.
Presumably operating on the grounds that it is best to know one’s enemies – 140 characters at a time – the first feed the Taliban signed up to follow was that of @Afghantim, who describes himself as a US air force logistics officer currently deployed working as a combat adviser to the Afghan army.
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