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more about #valleywag DeadliestSin: I read somewhere that American solders who are married and deployed can live together overseas, and have "off duty" time together... is this true? I'm... more » TheSometimesWhy: I long for the good old days when a tweet was merely a bird's song.... more » Cygnus_Mal: Just a quick clarification, this pregnancy ban was only in effect for Soldiers in northern Iraq, under Cucolo's command. For the rest of us it's been ... more » misslinda: It's now safe for Tracy Morgan to join the army. more » MrHaroHaro: "Don't you dare become nondeployable" has a nice ring to it. more » ArleenCabango: on the one hand I can understand the military's viewpoint. sometimes you aren't in a position to safely remove a soldier and being pregs messes with t... more » Mo MoDo: Meh. Getting pregnant is the Iraq version of Section 8. A guaranteed trip home. more » kneetoe: One more argument for gays in the military. more » Shadowlayer: I dont see why google has to buy this half-assed company thats only relevant to a few parts of the US and not that popular at all. A google version, ... more » youngmarblegiant: I'm a Yelp elite, and let me tell you it is really all about the free booze at the parties. You review a certain number of establishments and you get... more » contradicto: What's with the tiny Business Insider link at the bottom of this post? more » sfBirdie: Yelp is useful, but you have to read reviews with an open mind - especially in the Bay Area. Many of the 'Yelp Elite' reviewers take the title way to... more » DennyCrane: Boutros, Boutros, golly! more » raincoaster: The older Yelp gets, the more closely it resembles a cheesy freebie newspaper, the kind with 50-year-old jokes to keep the ad columns apart. The longe... more » resipsaloquacious: Henry Blodget? Really? more » Shadowlayer: 500M for a "company" nobody outside SF uses or even knows about... Thats it, google just went fucking retarded. more » Pope John Peeps II: Tech people seem to believe that the entire digital world is a brand new realm, whose laws and fiats they can cavalierly disregard, or invent to their... more » BowlingForDollars: This may sound lame, but I have Creative Commons on all of my material on Facebook. If they make it available in search, isn't that exploiting my "wor... more » CumaeanSibyl: A lot of times, when something that awful happens, it doesn't sink in all at once. You're numb, and your first instinct is to keep doing the things yo... more » Magister: Re: Penelope Trunk I'm not even bothering to fake the lie - The computer I'll be buying this Christmas will be for me, so that the kids can have the ... more » -
#videogames
Video Games, A Traumatized Soldier's Virtual Therapist
Video games sure have come a long way since Atari. There's now a game called Virtual Iraq, which could help shell-shocked soldiers overcome post-traumatic stress disorder. Because nothing says "therapy" like "virtual reenactment of horrific proportions." [Crispy Gamer] -
#wantrepreneurs
Is Web 2.0 Safe in a War Zone?
The gang of webheads sent by the State Department to Iraq is doing what webheads do: blogging, Twittering, and posting photos in real time. This must be giving their government minders fits. More » -
#valleywag
They Will Greet Us as Social Networkers
Call it the final wave of the American invasion: A passel of tech executives from Google, YouTube, Twitter, and others, squired by a Wired feature writer, are touring Iraq. More »
