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I was out with my youngest tonight for tea. I was helping her with some Law homework, and reviewing an HR written offer letter she had composed for class. I quote to you a sentence from the offer letter she wrote: "Canadian Hubcap Association reserves the right to exterminate your summer employment without notice for due cause at any time during the contracted period." - BEK. Watch out world, the new HR is being developed! ;-) I suggested a few alternatives for her composition, including turning every paragraph into a single sentence to make it 'sound' more legal.

Tempted by the succulent delight coffered across the table, she was roused to implore: "Are those your berries?" - LW. Surprised by her petition, he indelicately suggested that they were no more than a mouthful of carcinogenic flavour.

Brits have discovered what may be a dark matter galaxy , VIRGOHI21, in the Virgo constellation, using the Lovell Telescope. The discovery was confirmed using the Arecibo Telescope. The galaxy was observed by the radio telescopes, as there are no stars present -- just mass that is rotating like a galaxy. The astronomers that discovered VIRGOHI21 were observing in the radio spectrum to detect hydrogen atoms. What they found was a mass of hydrogen a hundred times that of our Sun -- yet, at the speed that mass was rotating, there should be a lot more mass. Previous objects have been observed but were subsequently found to contain stars, or be the remnant of two colliding galaxies. VIRGOHI21 was observed back in 2000, and it has taken this long for astronomers to study it for other explanations. Current thinking places dark matter at a 5:1 ratio over ordinary visible matter. There should be more of the universe than we're seeing. Current theories of galaxy formation also predic...

  World Wind 1.2 X   F eatures   D ownload   M anual   NASA's World Wind is a visual treat.  Leveraging the images of the LandSat satellite and radar data from the Space Shuttle, World Wind allows a visual, 3D experience of Earth that is unprecedented.  You can literally go anywhere on the planet, down to a resolution of 15m. World Wind starts you off with the Blue Marble view of the planet -- a true colour image of the entire planet as seen from NASA's Earth Observatory.  From there, you can zoom in on the planet, taking advantage of the LandSat 7 images taken between 1999 and 2003.  The images are continuously being refreshed as new images become available.  Radar data is incorporated to allow you to experience the planet's topography from any direction, and NASA is also working on incorporating data to allow you to dive into the ocean. It doesn't end there however.  NASA has incorporated GIS data from a number of sources to make...

Read the Discover magazine article on how we're slowly poisoning ourselves with Mercury. Related links: What You Need to Know About Mercury in Fish and Shellfish -- 2004 EPA and FDA Advice For: Women Who Might Become Pregnant, Women Who are Pregnant, Nursing Mothers & Young Children United Nations Global Mercury Assessment report The Poisoning of Minamata Reduced Levels of Mercury in First Baby Haircuts of Autistic Children [PDF] Mercury Contamination of Aquatic Ecosystems [PDF]

New Scientist is reporting that the Mars Express spacecraft has detected a frozen sea, not far from Mars' equator and just below the surface. The sea of ice is estimated to be about 800 x 900km and 45m deep. More information can be found in soon-to-be-published article: Topographic Control of Hydrogen Deposits at Mid-to Low Latitudes of Mars [PDF].

PC Pitstop hid $1,000 in the End User License Agreement (EULA) for their latest software to prove a point -- people don't read EULA when they install software. At least one person did though, because they found $1,000 in the EULA. Previously, 3,000 people had downloaded and installed the software, but never read the clause in the EULA that offered $1,000. This story was slashdotted .

If you're into films, especially the innovative stuff that usually only shows up at various film festivals, you'll want to check out Cinequest Online -- the online face of Cinequest San Jose Film Festival. Cinequest Online makes available full features and shorts -- including the films that have been previewed at the San Jose film festival. To view the full features, you will have to register to the site and download a secure delivery plugin for your browser. It's quite painless, but you should know that the plugin, once installed will automatically connect to Cinequest's site and download Cinequest latest release -- which can be quite large. Why the plugin? The movies are in a secured format -- so it can be distributed illegally. It works.

McKinsey Quarterly reports on where global companies should be focusing their offshoring efforts in order to compete in the future. The article can be summarized as follows: Inevitable Traditional Offshoring Innovative Offshoring       Emerging market business Big business from developed markets Big business from developed markets Competes locally Innovate Enters to emerging markets to serve Learns to innovate Leverages emerging markets for cheap labour Learns and innovates Eventually enters developed markets Serves developed markets, including value segments Leverages emerging market businesses to innovate   First competes in value segments Competes in emerging markets and in value segments of developed markets Transformation needed   Competes with business already in developed markets     In other words, western companies in developed markets have traditionally viewed emerging markets in " imperialistic " terms, exploiting their cheap labour for ...

I went to see Hotel Rwanda tonight despite my better judgment. I knew what kind of film it was going to be. It was quite the unhappy experience. I try to avoid serious, unhappy movies, but I highly recommend this movie and will probably brave the unhappiness again. The movie explores the horror of genocide in Rwanda -- when the Hutus rose up against their Tutsis brothers, sisters, and family and began hacking them to death in the streets, in their homes -- focused on removing all Tutsis from existence. When it all came to a halt 100 days later, over one million people -- adults and children, lay dead. The movie conveys the atrocity in one of the most horrific scenes -- an early morning drive in the fog is suddenly interrupted by a road that seemed built of potholes. When the van is stopped, the realization hits -- the entire road is covered with dead bodies. One child is shown, eyes closed, hands around her ears, trying to hide from the horror that claimed her life. The other...

This month's issue of Discovery magazine kicks off a three-part "Learning Series" of articles looking at the way genetics and race influence medical science . Science has already concluded that there is no genetic basis for race -- it's social. Yet, the evolution of the human species has left geographical imprints in DNA that manifests themselves in racial differences. DNA record contains the history of population movement , and by studying our genetic history we will gain new insights into diseases -- some of which may lead to novel new treatments. This first part of the Discover series looks at the genetic study of African Americans. Africans contain the most genetic diversity today, as it is the site of the human species oldest genes. As Georgia Dunston, geneticist at Howard University in Washington, puts it, "Eleven hours of the total 12 hours on the evolutionary clock was spent in Africa. There's where most human variation occurred." You wou...

CIO Magazine reports on the most annoying workplace clichés as determined by 150 senior executives polled by Accountemps. We've all done it -- it is a part of business language. More and more however, it's also infecting our everyday speech. You know the language -- it's the annoying consultant talk. I've become so bad that it actually makes sense to me when I talk that way. In fact, I sometimes find myself struggling to say something just using simple language. To those I've annoyed, I'm sorry -- I don't know if I'm going to stop -- but being aware though, I just might start doing it on purpose! ;-) Here are the top 15 annoying words & phrases: 1) at the end of the day, 2) solution, 3) thinking outside the box, 4) synergy, 5) paradigm, 6) metrics, 7) take it offline, 8) redeployed people, 9) core competency, 10) win-win, 11) value-added, 12) get on the same page, 13) customer-centric, 14) generation x, and, 15) alignment.

On Dec. 27th, astronmers observed what is being touted as the largest explosion recorded in human history. The explosion came from the other side of the Milky Way, about 50,000 light-years away. It originated from the surface of the super-magnetic neutron star, SGR 1806-20 -- an object about 20 km across, that makes a complete revolution in 7.5 seconds. For a brief moment, the star released the amount of energy the Sun releases in 100,000 years. The explosion was observed on Earth as gamma rays that bounced off the Moon and hit our atmosphere. Astronomers say that if SGR 1806-20 was around 10 light-years from us, the radiation would have been strong enough to trigger mass extinction. For more information, see the following: Massive Stars in the SGR 1806-20 Cluster [PDF]

I read this short article on Tomorrow Now , the application support firm that supports PeopleSoft and JDE apps, that was recently purchased by SAP. Many companies spend an incredible amount of money on maintenance for their PeopleSoft apps. Significant dollars can be saved by by outside support. Of course, Larry has hinted that he might just sue if SAP takes too many of his clients -- but Larry threatens everybody at least once.

InformationWeek has a pretty good article on the ascension of Sam Palmisano to the helm of IBM, and his plan to extend on the work of Lou Gerstner by turning IBM into a company focused on "business-performance-transformation-services." So what is it? If you believe IBM's propaganda, it's business-process-outsourcing taken to the extreme -- and I was tempted to say 'xtreme' -- but I resisted. So what's xtreme-business-process-outsourcing? (You know, the thing with temptation ...) From IBM's perspective, it's the ability to take over any and all functions of a client's business, and leverage IBM's technology, business and innovation abilities to transform the client's business into something more than it was -- either achieving cost savings, performance gains, both, or simply relieving the client of the everyday drudgery of running their business so they can concentrate on what differentiates them from their competitors. But is thi...

Belated anyway ... to Galileo Galilei , born in Pisa, Italy, on Feb. 15, 1564. Galileo did a lot of things to be famous for -- like studying sunspots , the moons of Jupiter and being incarcerated by the Catholic church for looking up into the heavens and not seeing god -- like that was his fault.

That is the question posed in an article by CIO Magazine's senior editor Megan Santosus. The answer, believe it or not, is to tend to the soil. Not that Santosus is suggesting a healthy dose of farm fertilizer mind you. She does have a point. Currently in the IT industry, "low morale [is] as ubiquitous and insidious as spam." Over the years, the business has pushed CIOs to do more with less -- and when the heroes of IT delivered, they now face the thanks of being outsourced. To paraphrase Santosus, "What can CIOs do to improve morale?" Or to bring it down a few levels, "What can IT Management do to improve morale?" Don't give your staff bullshit -- no matter how appealing tending to the soil may sound. Give your staff your time. Spend time with them to understand what bothers the hell out of them. Chances are there are things you can do something about -- even while there are others way out of your control. Everybody is realistic -- th...

This is a riot! The end of the world , from a Californian perspective -- although there is definitely something about the accent. This came to me from windspike , who appears to be an REM fan. (Be patient, it takes a few minutes to load, but worth it.)

I haven't posted on the movies I've seen in quite some time now -- that doesn't mean I haven't seen movies, it just means that there were a lot of other things I wanted to cover. Recent movies I've enjoyed, include: Johnny Mnemonic , Sideways , and the Incredibles , to name a few. Last night however, I watched Donnie Darko , the original. The Director's Cut is now being released on DVD, and I hear that it may have messed with the good thing the original was. The original is a great piece of work. Part teenage angst and comedy, SciFi and Horror, and quite possibly a commentary on our culture and society, Donnie Darko defies categorization. Jake Gyllenhaal plays Donnie Darko, a borderline-schizophrenic who becomes obsessed with time travel while blurring the worlds of reality and his hallucinations, guided by a man-sized, reptilian rabbit. Donnie knows the world is going to end fairly shortly and he seems to be the only one who knows. It scares him as he...

I was a staunch green during my youth. I wasn't awake to the fact that the world is a very complicated place, and while I'd rather do the right thing, I also didn't want to give up on all the conveniences that the modern world had afforded me. I'm now very much of the opinion that nuclear power is the way to go. The nuclear industry has progressed since the 1970s. There is always the danger of meltdown, but the new designs are fail-safe -- see my post on pebble-bed reactors . The problem of storage of nuclear waste is also huge -- but spent nuclear fuel could be reused -- which is an environmentally sound thing to do. Enriched nuclear waste could also be used to make weapons, but I think this can be overcome -- I think using enriched uranium to power commerce is a much more appealing idea that using it to threaten neighbours. The world will wake up to this. The US, Russia, Europe, China, Japan, Korea, India and Brazil already think this way. Yes, there will alw...

I took a few photographs of the sunset today. It was brilliant in the sky. Check them out at my photoblog or via my webshots gallery .

On a different note, the withdrawing tsunami waves have cleared away sand that had buried two giant granite lions for centuries in India's ancient seaport of Mahabalipuram. Locals also reported seeing a temple and several rock sculptures just before the tsunami struck, as the sea withdrew, revealing the seabed.

The Royal Navy's survey ship, HMS Scott, presented ocean floor images this past week that shows the Indian Ocean earthquake's damage to the ocean floor. The earthquake, which measured 9.0 on the Richter scale, was caused by the collision of the Indian and Burman plates, 40 kilometres under the ocean. The Indian Plate was pushed under the Burman Plate in the collision, causing ridges to rise up to 1,500 metres high. The ridges remain unstable, and have collapsed in places, scarring the ocean floor. HMS Scott was dispatched to the region in a non-military role to collect data that could be useful for the Asian countries in the region of the tsunami epicentre and the world in general. The ship is equipped with a modern multi-beam sonar suite that was designed to allow it map the ocean floor around the world. Related links: [This got to me via Slashdot .] [The presentation, 38MB and in Powerpoint format, is available here .] [For more updated information on the tsunami r...

I'm sure that's exactly what Bush is thinking -- "Raze the Earth!" The man reminds me of Saruman, who turned evil in the Lord of the Rings, and decided to burn the trees to make machines of war. Bush doesn't like the Endangered Species Act, and wants it replaced. In his new budget, he's lowered the amount of money available to protect endangered species by $3 million. Now a survey by the Union of Concerned Scientists and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility has found that scientists working for the Fish and Wildlife Service have been directed to alter their findings over the years to lessen the protection available for plants and animals. The survey results can be found at the Union of Concerned Scientists website.

Firefox has been acknowledged by both Yahoo and Amazon . Both companies have ported their toolbar software for the fledgling browser. Maybe Yahoo and Amazon see a potential, and maybe they're worried that Google, being very prominent with Firefox users, stand to gain the most. I doubt anyone in Redmond will be working hard however to make any Microsoft services available to Firefox.

You can't pay for entertainment like this. It was verbal ballet over Japanese -- with a lingual coryphée, and her inspiration. I give the following out-of-context deposition: She said, "Inside, open wide, deep throat. Sounds like a good place to start." He suggested, "You can have some, I can lift my broccoli off it." She replied, "Is your broccoli spicy?"

On my ride home early tonight with my youngest daughter, I read this short article from Discover magazine -- it's a little summary of the events that lead to the spectacular x-ray images being produced by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The magazine includes some stunning images, which can be found online at the Chandra photo album -- high resolution images are available. Noteworthy in the article was the story of Riccardo Giacconi , who, as a young physicist, tried to convince NASA to send a Geiger counter into space. NASA refused, but the Air Force bought the idea. Giacconi told them that they could test if the Moon gave off radiation. That first Geiger counter in space didn't record any radiation from the Moon, but it did detect a strong source of x-rays from Scorpius constellation . Sco X-1 as the source would come to be known, would later turn out to be a neutron-star binary about 1,000 light-years from Earth. Giacconi documented a concept for the Chandra telescop...

I was just driving my daughter home from school, and listening to Golgotha Tenement Blues , by the Machines of Loving Grace . It's a cool song.

I was recently purchasing a Valentine's card for my lovely wife, when the deep discount being offered by Carleton Cards caught my eye -- "2 for $7.00" the sign declared. This just may be me, but -- why would you want two Valentine's cards? Seems to me that if you're picking up two cards, you intend to use two. Is the other one for next year? Won't she remember? Or are there two ladies in your life? And if that's the case, don't you think you have issues? It made me wonder. In case you're wondering, I passed on the deep discount.

Omar Khadr is imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay by the US, who picked him up in Afghanistan for killing a US soldier. Omar was 15 then. Now he's 18, and the US still hasn't brought charges against him -- or to the other prisoners held there as a matter of fact. His mother and Canadian lawyers (Omar is Canadian) made an appeal yesterday in a press conference for the US to release him and for the Canadian government to do more. His lawyers claim that Canada is helping the US and is doing nothing to get Omar out. It's a sad story. Quite the tearjerker to see Omar's mom and grandmother crying at the press conference. But the facts please. Omar's father, Ahmed, was a known associate of Osama bin Laden, and he died in a shootout with Pakistani police in 2003. A brother, Karim, was wounded in that shootout and has returned to Canada. Another brother, Abdullah, has been accused of running a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan and his whereabouts are unknown. Yet a...

I read this quick little blurb in BusinessWeek today, and it gave me cause for a chuckle. Apparently the Muslim fate forbids the paying of interest or riba . So if you're a devout Muslim, you're screwed. No bank loans for that house you've had your eye on. In Muslim countries, this is not an issue, since they cater to such craziness (and before anybody wish to flame me for being intolerant -- bite me! I'm intolerant to all religions!). In the US however, Muslims are at a disadvantage -- or were -- because a little bank in Chicago is starting to cater to Muslims. For mortgages for instance, the bank purchases the property, then sells it back to the home owner on the installment plan or Murabaha , at a price that includes the projected interest cost. The chuckle? That small bank that's being innovative in catering to their Muslim clients is Devon Bank -- owned by the Loundy family, who just happens to be Jewish.

My cover to cover marathon through the latest BusinessWeek magazine provoke some interest in the following: Wal-Mart Bank? -- Wal-Mart has introduced a no-fee Discover card that offers 1% back, and in the past few years, has quietly made alliances with some financial service providers. In the past, they've expressed an interest in getting into the bank business. Their plan is most likely to do what they've done in the retail business -- target lower-income consumers and drive prices down. Girls in the Lab -- American kids lag behind other nations kids in science and engineering, then Harvard University's President declares that girls just don't have the innate ability. Dismissing half of the population is not the smartest thing to do -- that's throwing out half the brains of the nation. But how can girls be encouraged to get into the sciences? How can the sciences be made cool? Well, one way is to start having more role models. Women still aren't hire...

Breaking News!!! The Governor General of Canada will be visiting the Royal Montreal Curling Club today -- at noon! This is a historic occasion -- mainly because the curling club has been around since 1807 -- but who cares about that -- it's historic because Adrienne Clarkson's visit will cost taxpayers several million dollars as she takes the long way to the curling club. Her voyage started out a several weeks ago when Clarkson set off on a military jet to Vancouver. From there, she circled the globe in a couple of loops, stopping off for gas at several exotic locales, gracing the locals with some of her gas, and eventually arriving at Montreal on the weekend. When the press asked her why she didn't just drive from Ottawa to save taxpayers money, Clarkson commented that she was saving taxpayers money -- she was staying at her official B&B .

My wife and I had an adventure this past weekend. Road trip to Port Perry! OK, maybe not much of an adventure -- but lunch was great! And so was the photography. Check out the photos I took via the thumbnails below, or see smaller versions on my photoblog .

Discover Magazine's latest issue chronicles the adventures of the Digital Evolution Laboratory of Michigan State University and their Avida evolution software. If you buy into evolution -- like most sane people do -- what the folks are doing at the lab is downright fascinating. If you don't buy into evolution, you will come up with a new set of crackpot ideas for disproving their work. At the lab, the researchers use Avida to produce digital organisms, capable of replicating themselves tens of thousands of times in minutes, with code that can randomly mutate, just like DNA, with each replication. The researchers can track birth, life, death and mutations across generations of digital organisms. It's evolution at warp speed -- no intelligent designer required! Avida is important because it's not a simulation of evolution. It's actually an instance of evolution. Code is created, replicated, and mutated -- natural selection is happening within the computer, b...

Microsoft is apparently trying to patent the use of latitude & longitude in URLs. Where will the stupidity end? See the patent application here .

University of Alberta is following up their computer science course on virus writing with a new offering to their CompSci students -- writing email spam and spyware . The University claims that they're teaching students how to create viruses, spam and spyware in order for them to learn how to combat such nuisances. Hmm ... good intentions ... sure ... but if I was a pissed off employee who knew how to write viruses ...

Startups are flourishing and the big IT firms are salivating at the prospect of the next big thing. What is it? Wireless sensor devices (motes) combined with mesh networking. Motes are tiny devices that packages some sensor hardware, with wireless networking capability and application software. They can detect changes in temperature, pressure, moisture, light, sound, magnetism, motion, radiation, etc. With wireless technology and low power consumption, these devices can reside anywhere for years, without servicing, just monitoring. Mesh networking give the devices their independence from the central computer, human hands and power needs. With mesh networking, the devices belong to the collective. They wake whenever they have something interesting to report, broadcast for a fraction of a second and return dormant -- consuming on a tiny amount of power. Instead of sending their information all the way back to the central computer, they simply relay it to the nearest mote, which ...

In an effort to make sense of the mad-mad world, I seek pertinence in the abstruse vernacular of the infamous anonymous -- the lunch-time confabulation of the BC intelligentsia. More often than not, I'm left to excogitate meaning from such remarks: "Will Andy be higher on the list than me?" said she. To which he replied, "No. I think Andy will want to watch."

Yesterday I went down with my lovely wife for brunch at Meggie's -- a restaurant that I was introduced to by JD -- she of the perpetual 'out of context.' Meggie's has a great all-day breakfast menu, and yesterday I had one of their standard fares -- consisting of pancakes, scrambled eggs and their famous garlic fries -- amazingly tasty fries, made with real chopped garlic. My wife was more adventurous -- she chose to enjoy an omelette of fresh berries, soaked in rum and drizzled with icing sugar. She said it was pretty good. Sounds ... interesting, but not for me. Meggie's is a great restaurant, with a great atmosphere that could probably be mistaken for ambience. It's highly recommended. Meggie's is located at 174 Eglinton Ave. W -- just a block west of Yonge. If you're trying for brunch on the weekend, I suggest making reservations: 416-483-9954.

He may one of the world's most hated man -- but that's probably the territory of the world's richest man. He also wants to save the world, and is putting his money up for the cause. As much as I despise Gates for going around and clobbering innovation like a 500lb gorilla, I also admire him for the work of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Not only is the foundation giving away hundreds of millions, it is focusing its efforts on eradicating curable diseases and Gates is giving generously of his personal time and clout to make it happen. At the end of January, the Gates Foundation gave US$750 million to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) over 10 years to pay for vaccines for children in developing countries. That is on top of the US$750 million the Gates Foundation gave to startup GAVI in 2000 -- and the personal time and effort the Gates' gave to harangue Big Pharma into putting in the effort to develop vaccines for the third world. Th...

WTF? I just saw that on the weather forecast on my blog. Never heard of such a thing. I was out with my wife today -- galivanting to Port Perry, and the fog was incredibly thick. In fact, it lingered the entire day, then thicken into the evening -- turning into ice fog. Curiousity got the better of me, so I looked it up. Ice fog is fog, but instead of being composed of supercooled liquid water, the water molecules have frozen into tiny ice crystals, which hang in the air. It was so bad at times today, that the Sun disappeared from the sky. When it did appear, it was white, and looked just like a full moon -- with a well defined circumference. Quite the sight.

On my way home from work on Friday, I read a short article from McKinsey Quarterly , regarding retail trends -- specifically, the move from being product focused to retail ecosystem focused. This is a bit of old news -- the report was written in 2000 -- but you can already see the predictions bearing fruit -- both successes and failures. What is a Retail Ecosystem? You'll find the phrase being used to describe many things, including the technologies being employed by retailers, to specific technology niches, such as RFID. Being a business strategy article however, the authors use the phrase to describe the move by retailers to focus on offering consumers "packages of interrelated products, services, and information." A hardgoods retailer for example, would expand its consumer offering by getting into the product installation business; or the tool rental business. How does it work? Retailers build on their established relationship with consumers -- brand, product ...

Politicians should be held accountable to the public. They also need to respect the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, which supersedes public opinion. On the subject of same-sex marriage, the Liberals are skirting a fine line in trying to do the right thing and not lose popularity. Same-sex marriage isn't a big deal. The marginalized views and conflict encouraged by the media is making this out to be more important than it really ought to be. Gay couples should be allowed to be married if they want to. It's nobody's business. Just it's nobody's business if a black person marries a white person -- although, not so long ago, many people thought it was public business in preventing mixed marriages. You'll still find some of those people around today, and they're most likely on the side of those that oppose same-sex marriage. Intolerance makes for some strange bedfellows. If you'd like to know what your politicians have been up to on the subject of s...

I joined the line this past weekend to get the car washed. It was a line. A long one. In Barrie of all place. I was bored. So I took some pictures.

Ever wonder where tabs came from? You know, the little pieces of paper that protrudes from file folders, index cards and the like? Technology Review has a brief history on the tab. It's an invention that's been around for sometime -- hundreds of years in fact, but it fell out of favour with the introduction of page numbering of books. Its modern discovery was made by James Newton Gunn, who received a patent for his invention in 1897 and promptly sold it to the US Library Bureau. Today, tabs live on -- in digital format in the many applications you use everyday.

Apparently some Iraqi militant website had this image posted of a captured US soldier. Doubts were raised however, after the US reported that none of their soldiers were missing. Apparently, somebody bought a toy soldier, photographed it and posted it on the web. What would be incredibly funny however is if this hoax is actually a hoax. Something tells me that this photograph was made by a Bushie to make fun of the Iraqi militants.

Obviously god has been trying to send this guy a message for sometime now. Why is he fighting it? Perhaps, being on the inside and everything, he has an idea of what he has coming. Or maybe it's just me. Probably not.