Cole Porter

Not only did he live in Williamstown, my college town, for many years, but his house was apparently just recently on the market.

Also see this article in Forbes. Apparently he left the house to the college when he died, but it was resold a few years later.

garked from geekchick

links to photos from servicemembers overseas

http://www.yafro.com/frontline.php

the most quietly disqueiting one I've seen so far is this one

http://www.yafro.com/?action=viewphoto&photoid=751023&photopicfroserver=2

the same guy's photos of where the RPG ripped through the driver's seat are frightening, but this one looks so calm until you realize all those little dots are landmines; dozens and dozens and dozens of landmines...

Edit: link to an NPR story about warblogs from the front http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3867981

this is where I want to go

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.com/uswallpaper/imagepages/glenrosa-1024.html

Right now. And be on one of those boats. The only times I've gone sailing (mostly for an afternoon, but once for, what was it, a week? a week and a half?) I've loved it. Scotland + sailing? I can only imagine that it would be as close to heaven as I can easily imagine. One of my neighbors is selling a rather beat-up-looking twentysome-footer for about $2,000, and it's taking all my willpower not to at least go over and look at it...