More on S. Korean Man Who Died Playing Computer Game

He was playing Starcraft! [BBC article here]

Weird....I just spent last 4 hours playing Starcraft...before I took a break and went swimming. This guy died after playing 50 hours straight!

Talking Wounded

Interview with a wounded soldier from Iraq. The part that chilled me is copied below (and if you know me - it takes a lot to do that):

"I started patting myself down and that's when I noticed that my face took some shrapnel," he says. "It was all swollen on this side, so when I'm patting myself down, my middle finger went, like, this deep into my cheek where the shrapnel went in."

He points to a spot about halfway down his finger, showing how far it went into the shrapnel wound behind his right eye, which is still pretty much blind, unable to see anything but bright light.

"Then I started checking out my leg. I knew my femur was broken, but at that time I didn't know my calf was missing," he says. "And that's when I hear my best friend Maida and he started heaving."

Rodgers takes a few loud, quick breaths to show what Mark Maida sounded like.

"And he breathes like that for a few seconds and then he just stops. And that's when he died."

So the newsworthy portion of his account is that when he was in the hospital, he refused to meet with Bush or anyone else in his Administration (which would not suprise me - but to some people it still seems like a shocking thing to do).

( [Full text of article here because Washington Post linkage sucks] )