"Hurt Locker" is the most compelling movie I have seen this year so far - a unrelenting gut punch of a movie showing what happened out in that place known as "Eye-raq". Must watch!

What a wonderful thing, this Hobbit's House (article en pdf) that a computer scientist built for himself over three years using hay, clay, timber, and found/salvaged materials.

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass

How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?