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Enough said. (illustration via Christoph Niemann)

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:31:53 -0500

Enough said. (illustration via Christoph Niemann)

No Other Distribution Authorized Under this Agreement

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:04:51 -0500

WTF ! Apple’s going bonkers ! rentzsch: Apple’s iPhone Developer Program License...

OMFG !… listening to this after soooo long.. It makes...

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:24:26 -0500

OMFG !… listening to this after soooo long.. It makes me feel sooo NOSTALGIC !

Shoot Any Website GoldenEye-Style

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:17:41 -0500

wondertonic: Now you can take out aggression against any webpage in the most awesome late-nineties...

kingsley2: The Technium: The Game-ified Life

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:16:49 -0500

kingsley2:

The Technium: The Game-ified Life

geek ref chart

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 01:44:00 -0500

geek ref chart

Geeks must get chicks. The magic mantra.

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:17:29 -0500

vulturo: Whenever a non geek meets a rather geeky geek like me, their first reaction is to suggest...

A Life Revealed Her eyes have captivated the world since she...

Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:34:28 -0500

A Life Revealed

Her eyes have captivated the world since she appeared on our cover in 1985. Now we can tell her story.

By Cathy NewmanPhotograph by Steve McCurry

She remembers the moment. The photographer took her picture. She remembers her anger. The man was a stranger. She had never been photographed before. Until they met again 17 years later, she had not been photographed since.

The photographer remembers the moment too. The light was soft. The refugee camp in Pakistan was a sea of tents. Inside the school tent he noticed her first. Sensing her shyness, he approached her last. She told him he could take her picture. “I didn’t think the photograph of the girl would be different from anything else I shot that day,” he recalls of that morning in 1984 spent documenting the ordeal of Afghanistan’s refugees.

The portrait by Steve McCurry turned out to be one of those images that sears the heart, and in June 1985 it ran on the cover of this magazine. Her eyes are sea green. They are haunted and haunting, and in them you can read the tragedy of a land drained by war. She became known around National Geographic as the “Afghan girl,” and for 17 years no one knew her name.

In January a team from National Geographic Television & Film’s EXPLORER brought McCurry to Pakistan to search for the girl with green eyes. They showed her picture around Nasir Bagh, the still standing refugee camp near Peshawar where the photograph had been made. A teacher from the school claimed to know her name. A young woman named Alam Bibi was located in a village nearby, but McCurry decided it wasn’t her.

No, said a man who got wind of the search. He knew the girl in the picture. They had lived at the camp together as children. She had returned to Afghanistan years ago, he said, and now lived in the mountains near Tora Bora. He would go get her.

It took three days for her to arrive. Her village is a six-hour drive and three-hour hike across a border that swallows lives. When McCurry saw her walk into the room, he thought to himself: This is her.

Names have power, so let us speak of hers. Her name is Sharbat Gula, and she is Pashtun, that most warlike of Afghan tribes. It is said of the Pashtun that they are only at peace when they are at war, and her eyes—then and now—burn with ferocity. She is 28, perhaps 29, or even 30. No one, not even she, knows for sure. Stories shift like sand in a place where no records exist.

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listening to "The Temper Trap - Love Lost"

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:40:41 -0500

listening to "The Temper Trap - Love Lost"

Broad New Hacking Attack Detected - WSJ.com

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:25:42 -0500

Broad New Hacking Attack Detected - WSJ.com

American ice dancers skating to Indian Bollywood songs

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:52:36 -0500

American ice dancers skating to Indian Bollywood songs

Video

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:56:24 -0500

listening to "ABBA : I Have A Dream - Stockholm

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:20:42 -0500

listening to "ABBA : I Have A Dream - Stockholm : You can take the future even if you fail …..

listening to "Andrea Porcu - Schwanbeck - Hurt (Andrea Porcu

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:16:13 -0500

listening to "Andrea Porcu - Schwanbeck - Hurt (Andrea Porcu: HURT !

listening to "Let it go (dirty south) - Insomnia (faithless) -- Original mix"

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:41:41 -0500

listening to "Let it go (dirty south) - Insomnia (faithless) -- Original mix": Insomnia !!!

listening to "ABBA Slipping Through My Fingers Live 1981 - Dick Cavett Meets ABBA (High Quality)"

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:58:56 -0500

listening to "ABBA Slipping Through My Fingers Live 1981 - Dick Cavett Meets ABBA (High Quality)":...

listening to "I Can

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:36:45 -0500

listening to "I Can: I cant fight this feeling anymore… I’ve forgotten what I started...

listening to "Robbie Williams - Feel"

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:31:54 -0500

listening to "Robbie Williams - Feel": I just wanna FEEL !!!

listening to "Robbie Williams - Feel"

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:31:22 -0500

listening to "Robbie Williams - Feel": my head speaks a language, my head don’t...

I don’t wanna die, But I ain’t keen on living...

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:53:15 -0500

I don’t wanna die,
But I ain’t keen on living either.
Before I fall in love,
I’m preparing to leave her.
I scare myself to death,
That’s why I keep on running.