Archive for December, 2007

Saudi-American History

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

The intro to “The Kingdom” summarizes 70 years of Saudi-American History in three and a half minutes:

And on the same subject, here’s a bit of Saudi-American intrigue that seems like it came right out of a novel:
[Abu Zubaydah who was an al Qaeda suspect], who was wounded when captured, did not initially cooperate with his [...]

Who says you can’t learn anything from Video Games?

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

After playing World of Warcraft, the 12 year old boy knew how to cope when he was attacked by a moose in the forest.
In the article he describes how he first yelled at the moose, distracting it so his sister got away, then when he got attacked and the animal stood over him he feigned [...]