Comment - I think for most of us, our mental vision of what war looks like is shaped by WWII movies: GIs fighting the Germans and Japanese. But modern technology means war today (at least war as fought by U.S. forces) is radically different from what we've seen on movies screens. For example - "Army soldiers and Marines will be armed with a new antitank rocket launcher, the Javelin, which Robert Sherman of the Federation of American Scientists called ''the first weapon in history that gives a foot soldier the ability to take out any tank from any angle.' Once fired, a computer on board the rocket constantly updates what the target looks like, tracking a tank even if it changes direction and eventually hitting it from above, where the armor is weakest."

We're just beginning to understand the impact of computers and GPS on battlefields. It's probably as big an innovation as gunpowder.

News - Why didn't I think of this? A computer geek will rent out his bare chest for messages and advertising blurbs: http://www.rentmychest.com/

This guy is not exactly built like Arnold, which makes the scheme all the more hilarious. A project like this would never work for me: I'm way too hirsute!

News - This list is making its way around the Internet and I thought you'd all enjoy it:

You Know You Are Living In The Year 2003 When...

1. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is because they do not have e-mail.

2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

3. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.

4. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.

5. Every commercial on television has web site address at the bottom of the screen.

6. You buy a computer and 3 months later it's out of date and sells for half the price you paid.

7. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go get it.

8. Using real money, instead of credit or debit, to make a purchase would be a hassle and take planning.

9. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.

10. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.

11. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet (or the pool table).

12. Your idea of being organized is multiple-colored Post-it Notes.

13. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.

14. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.

15. You disconnect from the Internet and get this awful feeling, as if you just pulled the plug on a loved one.

16. You get up in the morning and go on-line before getting your coffee.

17. You wake up at 2 AM to go to the bathroom and check your E-mail on your way back to bed.

18. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. :-)

19. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

20. Even worse; you know exactly who you are going to forward this to...

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