Empire Notes is a blog from Bagdad (at least until April 25) by Rahul Mahajan. Testimony, perhaps, to the usefulness of the internet--something I have serious misgivings about in a general sense--as a journalistic medium.

The photomosaic image below, composed of photographs of the faces of American soldiers killed in Iraq, is pretty close to stunning. And the point isn't really the number of faces.



I found the original here. And here is a rather enormous (in terms of file-size) higher-resolution version.

Poem-of-the-Month Dept.:

The poem "L'Ange Heurtebise" translated by Charles Guenther from the French of Jean Cocteau, at The American Poetry Review's website. The biographical sketch and background note after the poem is interesting and illuminating.