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August 6, 2006

Hendrix at Woodstock, a 56-minute video; 479 M.C. Escher drawings; Soldiers' videos from Iraq

Video: Hendrix at Woodstock: At Google Video, 56 minutes, 39 seconds of footage of Woodstock '69 and the entire Monday morning performance by Jimi Hendrix.

Artwork of MC Escher - a photoset on Flickr: 479 drawings, from a simple white cat to the more typical, geometric Sphere Spirals at right. I hadn't seen most of them before.

Your Guide to Soldier Videos from Iraq: Last Tuesday, Mark Glaser's MediaShift at PBS, offered links and a measured military response.

Friday, Media Guardian U.K. published Don't Look Now, which leads,

Last week the Pentagon ordered American servicemen in Iraq to stop posting private video clips on the internet.

These "trophy videos" have become one of the more extraordinary by-products of modern-day warfare as soldiers - like everyday tourists - send video images ranging from the comic to the utterly horrific back home to impress friends and titillate the fans of "uncensored war".

There are hundreds of hours of this stuff posted up on a range of internet sites - most of it is fairly crudely shot and edited and usually set to thrash metal soundtracks.

But these homemade war videos offer an insight into modern warfare and the psyche of the average serviceman which conventional broadcast news and current affairs coverage cannot get close to....

'Baby, Give Me a Kiss': The man behind the 'Girls Gone Wild' soft-porn empire lets Claire Hoffman into his world, for better or worse

Joe Francis, the founder of the "Girls Gone Wild" empire, is humiliating me. He has my face pressed against the hood of a car, my arms twisted hard behind my back. He's pushing himself against me, shouting: "This is what they did to me in Panama City!"

It's after 3 a.m. and we're in a parking lot on the outskirts of Chicago. Electronic music is buzzing from the nightclub across the street, mixing easily with the laughter of the guys who are watching this, this me-pinned-and-helpless thing.

Francis isn't laughing.

He has turned on me, and I don't know why....

She's dead serious. Glad I don't have her beat: "Claire Hoffman covers Hollywood and the adult entertainment industry for The Times." Via BoingBoing.

The world is round: I was listening to CSNY's Star Spangled Banner from the Camden tapes at BigO Saturday afternoon, volume cranked up. My husband, who'd been visiting his mom, surprised me in the doorway to the den, dancing and saying, "Play it, Jimi..."
Faked him out.
Consider it a tribute.

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