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...Raptor—one of the Air Force’s stealthy new fighter jets—is the sort of military project that the New York Times crowd loves to hate. It is incredibly expensive, it has not been used in either Iraq or Afghanistan, and it seems to be entirely useless in a world where our foes prefer decidedly low-tech means of destruction. Critics, including current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, have been vocal in their calls to end procurement of the controversial fighter jet, currently stalled at 183 aircraft. But with all due respect to Secretary...
...There's even something for our former President to find. Can you spot the Lone Star flag waving in the crowd...
...only you could have been there. If only you had been in the crowd - a cool 1.8 million - you could have seen for yourself how massive, how emotional, how absolutely freezing the masses were as they watched Barack Obama take the oath of office. If only you had just made the trip to Washington, you could have gotten some tangible sense of how impressive it all was - or you could just log on to a website called GigaPan, which hosts super-high-resolution panoramic photos. (See pictures of Barack Obama's Inauguration...
...iPhone! Look, Newt Gingrich isn't even watching Obama give his speech! On his website, Bergman says his panorama, a virtual Where's Waldo of Inauguration Day, is 59,783 pixels wide by 24,658 pixels tall; the photo file weighs in at a whopping 2 GB. Scan the crowded dais for your favorite politicians or browse the faces in the crowd to see if you can find friends and family...
...Sunday at a long-scheduled meeting to discuss re-establishing a Town Watch program and demanded answers from city officials. According to local newspapers, at least 100 people packed the meeting, causing the police chief, city manager and city-council members to hurry over to deal with the crowd. Police chief William Matthews tried to reassure the residents. "We cannot have people roaming the streets with guns," he said, according to the Daily Times newspaper...