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 When the online world becomes real... |  As most of you know, there was an orchestrated attack on the American consulate in Benghazi on the evening of the 11th of September. What most of you probably don't know is that I was acquainted of one of the US Foreign Service who died in the attack. I didn't know it either until a few days later... but he played eve-online.
Sean Smith, or Vile Rat as we knew him, was one of the main diplomats for Goonswarm, as well as being an Information Management Officer with the United States Foreign Service, sitting in Benghazi that night, on jabber, talking about the protests outside. He had done so before at other postings (Baghdad, etc.) but this time he didn't come back online. There are several dedicated threads about him, the best one done by The Mittani.
In the game I knew him, not well, but I knew him. We've only talked to each other once in game and twice had a discussion on a forum. I had to deal with his lesser minions when I did diplo work with Goonswarm. I've read plenty of posts by him, and he and DBRB got Boddin's dread killed 10 months ago in a backstab. He was a power-gamer that we all knew. What struck me as profoundly weird was learning that a fellow gamer had died in a consular attack, while in the line of duty. Seeing it being reported that he was a gamer on NBC News, CNN, Andrew Sullivan and DailyKos, but mostly that the online world got real... the guy behind that avatar in game got killed by an angry mob attacking a consulate.
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| Diablo 3 |  Back in the day I had a level 99 necromancer and enjoyed corpse-exploding my way through endless waves of evil hordes. Soon I hope to relive some of that nostalgia. Who's with me? :)
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| Flatskatturin samtyktur |  Við triðu viðgerð í Løgtinginum í dag, bleiv broytta uppskotið um flatskatt samtykt, við 18 atkvøðum fyri, 14 ímóti og einari blankari.
Hettar merkir, at ein samgongulimur ikki atkvøddi fyri uppskotinum, men atkvøðugreiðslan er ikki løgd út á neti enn, so til ber ikki at siga hvør tað var. |
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| Last U.S. Troops leave Iraq, ending their war on a whimper | The last convoy of U.S. soldiers pulled out of Iraq on Sunday, ending nearly nine years of war that cost almost 4,500 American and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives and left a country grappling with political uncertainty.
"A good chunk of me is happy to leave. I spent 31 months in this country," said Sgt. Steven Schirmer, 25, after three tours of Iraq since 2007. "It almost seems I can have a life now, though I know I am probably going to Afghanistan in 2013. Once these wars end I wonder what I will end up doing."
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