Finally watched City of God last night. I had heard great things about the movie, but finally got around to renting it. The movie is about a photographer growing up in the infamous ‘City of God’ slum in Rio de Janeiro. I thought it was extremely well done; beautiful and disturbing. The subject matter involved a lot of kids, and the kids they got to portray them were quite amazing.

A great story from NPR and Slate; First Into Libya. A group of 16 American tourists, the first to tour Libya in a long time. They did a good job on the story, it seems like an amazing place.

Our main goal was to create a voice to prove that San Diego was not a cultural void-or maybe that it was a void but that with our combined goodwill and heart we could make it something bigger and better. Whether that happened or not remains to be seen. SD Fahrenheit is dead. Now we get to enjoy even more of the plastic surgery ads in sdreader.

United Nations-mandated auditors have sharply criticised the US occupation authority for the way it has spent more than $11bn in Iraqi oil revenues and say they have faced “resistance” from coalition officials. Mind you, the UN is being a bit of a pot, as it has its own issues with oil and corruption.

The first private manned spacecraft to fly to the edge of space and back.

We watched Control Room last night at the Ken. Thought it was a great look at the media, exposing biases on both sides of the world.

I should really learn to sandboard.

Nice: GOP avoiding investigation of prisoner abuse

Al-Qaida may ‘reward’ American president with strike aimed at keeping him in office. A senior US intelligence official is about to publish a bitter condemnation of America’s counter-terrorism policy, arguing that the west is losing the war against al-Qaida and that an “avaricious, premeditated, unprovoked” war in Iraq has played into Osama bin Laden’s hands.

Did Bush know Cheney had given orders to down airliners on September 11? The commission staff wonders and remains at odds with both men over alleged Saddam-Al Qaeda ties.

From foundphotos.