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New Twitter Feature: Body Counts
Source: Wired News

But the really interesting point is what kinds of information these tools relay. Earlier today, USFOR-A — which is separate from the NATO International Security Assistance Force — used its Twitter page to post a tally of enemy dead.

Meteor kills Obama! And now, your absolute worst-case election scenarios. Let us purge
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle

Interspersed throughout my friend Rob Brezsny's delightfully demented spiritual fireball of a 2005 book, "Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia," amid the dizzying assortment of cosmic wisdom and sly advice from dissident deities, you'll find four special pages wherein Rob turns t …

Body Counting: Why even the most-dubious statistics influence our thinking
Source: The Atlantic

How many Iraqis have died because of the American invasion? It would be nice to know the local price of Saddam Hussein's ouster, five years on. Many researchers have produced estimates. Unfortunately, these range from 81,020 to 1 million.

Iraq: Having a Carnage Party
Source: TomDispatch

Think about body counts in Iraq once again and then reflect upon the dead, the wounded, the mentally damaged, the shell-shocked and the deranged.

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