Recommended reading
Blackwater personnel allegedly killed a female reporter and three others with ties to Iraq's state-run television network. {HT: Eric]
New Zealand cops are letting the public shape laws through a wiki. Wait 'til Stephen Colbert hears about this...
A beloved professor at Carnegie Mellon delivered the lecture of a lifetime. [HT: CPL]
Dr. Pausch's speech was taped so his children, ages 5, 2 and 1, can watch it when they're older. His last words in his last lecture were simple: "This was for my kids." Then those of us in the audience rose for one last standing ovation.
Thanks for posting this, Lindsay. Memorable!
Posted by: swampcracker | September 27, 2007 at 08:29 PM
Mighty impressive, Lindsay. Thank you so much.
Posted by: Dock Miles | September 27, 2007 at 09:10 PM
Just read that WSJ article -- wow!!! And your photographs are FANTASTIC. How very cool!
Posted by: Lily | September 27, 2007 at 09:59 PM
Thanks for the link to the CMU lecture. I forwarded it to my reporting students as an example of writing about an emotional event without getting in the way of the reader. Nicely crafted.
Posted by: Brian B | September 28, 2007 at 01:38 AM
I just finished all this reading. THANK YOU.
Posted by: voxy | September 28, 2007 at 11:31 PM