This is the bit I memorized for today’s 90 seconds on MSNBC. It should be pretty close to what I actually said, short of the epithet’s I involuntarily barked out. (PoliticalTeen has captured the video. Thanks!)

BlackFive, a right wing military blog, is running a list of about 80 blogs by military personnel. It’s quite a collection. At the National Guard Experience, a mortar infantryman stationed in Afghanistan runs lots of photos of children, and seems, mildly obsessed with care packages. At Jack Army, a special forces soldier tells us why he flunked out of Medic training. A good read. Soldiers Mom, says that her son’s division in Iraq has entered a communications blackout period, which often means there’s some bad news coming. I hope not. By the way, the Army Times itself last month ran a list of military blogs, so they’re becoming more mainstream.

Some bloggers have been talking about a cache of 400,000 documents discovered a hundred years ago in Egypt that’s now legible thanks to new technology They’ve already found lost works by Sophocles and Euripides, and there’s speculation there maybe even be a lost gospel in there. The blogger, Eyeless in Gaza, explains the documents were trash dumped on the outskirts of the town, which was far enough from the Nile that the trash stayed nice and dry. It’s apparently an amazing store of riches that’ll take years to explore.

Finally, Jeremy Stribling, a student at MIT, felt that an academic conference was spamming him, so he generated a gibberish paper…which was, of course, then accepted. If you want to generate your own gibberish academic paper, you can go to Jeremy’s site. [Technorati tags: oxyrhynchus stribling iraq]

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