You may or may not remember me linking to a blog called Dear Raed written by a purported Iraqi citizen under the moniker of “Salam Pax” a while back, but for those of you who do…

Salam Pax’s real identity was quite a mystery — was he a CIA plant? A real citizen? Something else? Well, it turns out that he is very real, and a very real Iraqi citizen — at least according to this story by Peter Maass on Slate. It doesn’t give away Salam’s real name, but certainly lays out some backstory on him and his connection to Maass. Further, The Guardian UK will be publishing a column by Salam Pax fortnightly (every two weeks, for those of you who didn’t know that — and you know who you are). The first column appears here. The Guardian also has a good interview with Pax here.

I just saw an ad on TV (I’m at home, waiting on some repair people for the air conditioning) and I saw an ad for local lawyer Darryl “Turn-This-Wreck-Into-This-Check” Isaacs, touting him as the “KENTUCKY HAMMER”. Hah. Whew. Apparently, Isaacs & Isaacs doesn’t have a website, but I did find an article about Isaacs nearly being killed by a falling light pole at Seneca Park. Apparently he was hit with glass and debris, and narrowly escaped flattening.

update: found a website for Isaacs and Isaacs

I just finished the page and documentation for snow2.js, a little javascript toy that makes explosive snow rain down upon your page!

i’ve been messing around with this little javascript snow-thing today whilst at work (it’s been a bit stop-and-go today, and I’m frazzled). I went to sleep late last night, and have been drinking coffee. While I feel great because I’ve been doing good work today, and there is snow outside, things are getting hectic on this project i’m on.

In that spirit, when you clicky on the snowflakes that are falling on this page, they explode.

You can pause them with the “pause snow” link over here –>

Overheard:

We create platforms to collect, interpret and report integrated business assumptions, identify performance benchmarks, anticipate market trends and movement and accurately measure performance, premium adequacy, quality/value, expense management and allocations.

The day I hear a “mission statement” that doesn’t sound like a load of crap will be the day I die. In fact — “Welcome to Heaven — where we proactively integrate our clients neural realtionships with fifth-generation sygergistics!”. Now THAT is a mission-statement.