I forgot to take pics of anything pre-20th century. Oh well.

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The trailer for Dominion, the up-and-coming free expansion for Eve Online, is out!

There's tons of stuff in this expansion, but the trailer focuses on the improved warfare; the way you capture and defend a star system just got a lot more involved, so let the tactical maneuvering begin! Oh and if you don't care about all that --it's just a fucking awesome video.

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Robert McNamara is dead... which is as good an occasion as any to plug the interview/documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. They were going to film him for a few quotes as part of a larger documentary, but the guy turned out to be so interesting that they kept filming and eventually he got his own movie. Which is not surprising as he was the CEO of a very large company (Ford), was adviser to Kennedy during the Cuba missile crisis, and he was Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam war! Needless to say, this is must see stuff. With special thanks to Cinema Zed for playing this kind of crazy shit.

Jawohl mein Fuhrer \o/

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Still at Les Invalides.

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Berg-Op-Zoom is on that thing? And prominently, no less?

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If you hate Paris, you may want to give this blog a miss for the next... uh... two months.

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Eindelijk nog eens iets over den oorlogh.

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Pang.

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It's not that I'm addicted to WW1 or anything, but there's so many cemeteries around Ypres, that it's pretty much impossible to walk for 15 minutes and not run into one. Here's a picture from the Spoilbank Cemetery you discover if you take a mini-hike through the so called Palingbeek domain..

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Den oorlogh.

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The second part of the attempt at capturing the doom and gloom of these massive structures...</emo>

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During World War II, Germany expected the Allied invasion somewhere around Calais, because that is the closest point between the UK and France. In preparation for that, they built fortifications along the entire coast, but with extra emphasis on that area. Between Cap-gris-nez and Cap-blanc-nez you can find Wissant, giving a rather discouraging welcome indeed when approached from the bad side.

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Bayernwald is the name of yet another hill that seems too small to notice these days, but that for some reason or other was absolutely crucial to capture during WWI. After the Germans managed to grab it, they promptly renamed it to this "Bayernwald". As soon as the hill was under control, it was "fortified" in the usual way, that is to say, trenches were made that run right through it.

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