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Businessweek casts its eye on the new wave of innovation (by the little guy) and purchasing (by the big players) pushing the web into new areas.

1Up.com has a decent summation of what to expect in the next round of the console wars. I’ve been wavering in possible game machine purchases, since the Xbox 360 will probably have the best first person shooters of the bunch, but the PS3, should it ever actually be released, will have Metal Gear Solid 4. Then there’s the Nintendo Revolution, which promises to have an innovative controller and be a lot cheaper than the other two systems, but which doesn’t have the extra “yahyahgottahaveit” factor I need to push me over the edge to an actual purchase.

Still, this is all academic until I get a television of some note, and that won’t happen until after the summer. So hopefully by that time all the systems are out and price wars have begun.

Gary Hart, who seems to have left his scandalous days behind him, lays out some very good points about why the American military is as doomed in Iraq as Napoleon was in Moscow.

And I’ll try to find some non-Iraq related stuff to post about later.

Ben Griffin served as an elite SAS trooper (the UK equivalent of Delta Force) in Iraq in the early days of the war, but what he saw over there made him resign in disgust. And his commanding officers backed him up, rather than tossing him in the brig.

According to an article in the New York Times, the road to Baghdad in 2003 wasn’t quite the cakewalk it’s been made out to be. Definitely an interesting read; I already knew about some of this stuff, like Achmed Chalabi being airdropped into Iraq as what amounts to a PR stunt, but the article ties a lot of the US military’s screw-ups together nicely.

But more importantly…is it just me, or is Wafah Dufour Bin Laden really freakin’ hot? Just sayin’….

More geopolitical pervin’ can be found here, thanks to Google Horndog…I mean, Images.

McGowan, the frontman for the drunken band of Irish miscreants known as the Pogues, has pickled himself to the point where he really shouldn’t even be alive. But sentient (barely) he is, and he’s getting ready to go on tour once more.

Apparently the Mini comes out ahead of the Windows Media Centre. This is kind of like comparing apples to durians, but…meh. Check it out.

Oh, they’re a sexy bunch of misanthropes and malcontents.

Sometimes the idiocy of the recording industry boggles the mind. Here they are, with a service (the iTunes MUsic Store) people clearly want to use and aren’t shy about spending money on, and they go and stop downloads in order to increase CD sales. Because when faced with a need for a new business model, the thing to do is hide under a big pile of coats and hope everything works out. Bravo, recording industry, bravo.