The Sheppard

Fear my fat Dorset hands. [more]

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Latest spins:

The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads by Talking Heads

Young For Eternity by The Subways

Give Up by The Postal Service

The Back Room by Editors

Give Blood by Brakes

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Recent reads:

Margrave Of The Marshes by John Peel

The Sleeping God by Peter F. Hamilton

Thud by Terry Pratchett

The Rotters Club by Jonathan Coe

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The Blog

December 18, 2002

“You are now clear to engage the vehicles”

From the MeFi thread:

“This video purports to be the gunsight view of an American AC-130 gunship targeting a compound, and its inhabitants and vehicles, in Afghanistan. Complete with battlefield audio.” (5.5 MB, windows media video)

From a purely technical standpoint the processing utilised to steadily aim a camera viewpoint from thousands of feet up and the ability to target within two feet of a target is incredible. However the one thought rattling about my head whilst watching this was how much like command + conquer or cannon fodder it all looked like. I was transfixed by it and cannot start to imagine how the footage made its way from the AC-130 to a site on the Internet.

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December 8, 2002

cake baking

Photos of the combined culinary greatness of Rasey, Scott and me. Mmmmm - chocolaty!

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