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    <title>The new Apple TV, or how we are getting ripped off in Germany...</title>
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    <published>2010-09-01T19:01:01Z</published>
    <updated>2010-09-01T19:08:03Z</updated>

    <summary>The new Apple TV seems to be a great little piece of living room hardware, especially at $99 Oh wait, should I rather say 119€, or 100€ less tax, which is still like $128. Tell me, why do we have...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The new Apple TV seems to be a great little piece of living room hardware, especially at $99</p>

<p>Oh wait, should I rather say 119€, or 100€ less tax, which is still like $128. </p>

<p>Tell me, why do we have to pay $30 more fore the same product Apple?</p>

<p>Why am I getting worked up about just $30 at all? Bottom line is: It is still much cheaper and better than the old Apple TV. Silly me, it must be the wine&#8230;
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<entry>
    <title>Volcanic Ash and Airplanes</title>
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    <id>tag:www.kurutepe.com,2010://1.48</id>

    <published>2010-04-16T21:12:06Z</published>
    <updated>2010-04-16T21:25:21Z</updated>

    <summary>All airline services have been cancelled over the most of the European airspace today due to an eruption of a volcano under the Eyjafjallajökull Glacier in Iceland. As the molten lave goes through the ice of the glacier, it quickly...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>All airline services have been cancelled over the most of the European airspace today due to an eruption of a volcano under the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyjafjallaj%C3%B6kull" title="Eyjafjallajökull" rel="wikipedia">Eyjafjallajökull</a> Glacier in Iceland.</p>

<p>As the molten lave goes through the ice of the glacier, it quickly cools down and forms small glass shards. These shards practically sandblast any aircraft through them and can cause anything from engine failures to windscreens becoming opaque.</p>

<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9">A Wikipedia article</a> regarding the British Airways Flight 9 on June 24th 1982 illustrates the dangers very clearly. Quoting the captain of that flight, as a perfect example of british understatement some 30000ft from the ground: </p>

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  <p>Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control. I trust you are not in too much distress. </p>
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<entry>
    <title>No iPad apps allowed in German AppStore </title>
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    <id>tag:www.kurutepe.com,2010://1.47</id>

    <published>2010-04-10T09:39:10Z</published>
    <updated>2010-04-10T09:50:12Z</updated>

    <summary>I just got my iPad thanks to I friend living in New York. In general it is an interesting device but in my case it is severely limited by the fact that Apple does not allow customers with non-US iTunes...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I just got my iPad thanks to I friend living in New York. </p>

<p>In general it is an interesting device but in my case it is severely limited by the fact that Apple does not allow customers with non-US iTunes accounts, for instance Germany in my case, to download and install iPad apps. </p>

<p>Other than that the keyboard is HUGE and needs some getting used to after the iPhone keyboard. Two-thumb typing is barely possible in the vertical orientation and impossible in the horizontal orientation, but the  horizontal keyboard is large enough for 8-fingered typing.</p>

<p>And finally, I realized my new app for the iPad is very buggy on the actual hardware. A weekend of testing and debugging is ahead of me.  </p>
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<entry>
    <title>iPhone OS 4.0...</title>
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    <id>tag:www.kurutepe.com,2010://1.46</id>

    <published>2010-04-08T17:57:19Z</published>
    <updated>2010-04-08T18:03:42Z</updated>

    <summary>This is huge. iAds is definitely a game changer for free app developers. I can&#8217;t wait to take advantage of this. Multitasking seems cool, too. I wonder how it&#8217;ll fare on an iPhone 3G, though, let alone an original iPhone....</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apple-iad-brings-ads-cash-money-to-third-party-iphone-apps/">This</a> is huge. iAds is definitely a game changer for free app developers. I can&#8217;t wait to take advantage of this.</p>

<p>Multitasking seems cool, too. I wonder how it&#8217;ll fare on an iPhone 3G, though, let alone an original iPhone. My iPhone 3G is slow as it is without multitasking.</p>

<p>Exciting times, we live in&#8230;</p>
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<entry>
    <title>Favorite Key</title>
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    <published>2010-01-31T23:22:15Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-31T23:27:38Z</updated>

    <summary> I&#8217;ve just come across this really cool toy which analyzes your last.fm profile and lists your most favorite musical keys. Not really useful but fun. Apparently, I am a A-minor person. With C-major coming in a close second. I...</summary>
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<p>I&#8217;ve just come across this really cool <a href="http://users.last.fm/~matt/hackey/">toy</a> which analyzes your last.fm profile and lists your most favorite musical keys. Not really useful but fun.</p>

<p>Apparently, I am a A-minor person. With C-major coming in a close second. I guess I don&#8217;t like the black keys that much.</p>

<p>(Via <a href="http://musicmachinery.com/2010/01/31/music-hack-day-hacks-hackey/">Music Machinery</a>)</p>
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<entry>
    <title>A Bet on the Future</title>
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    <id>tag:www.kurutepe.com,2010://1.44</id>

    <published>2010-01-31T22:54:57Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-31T23:14:08Z</updated>

    <summary>Steven Frank has written the best piece about the iPad. I was planning to write something like this but I don&#8217;t need to bother now. I agree with him whole-heartedly. Although the iPad as a device leaves much to be...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Steven Frank has written the best <a href="http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/359224392/i-need-to-talk-to-you-about-computers-ive-been">piece</a> about the iPad. I was planning to write something like this but I don&#8217;t need to bother now. I agree with him whole-heartedly.</p>

<p>Although the iPad as a device leaves much to be desired, the computing model originally introduced by iPhone and recently blown up in size by iPad, is potentially the computing model of the future. Just as we shifted our paradigms several times in the last five decades, from punch card machines to command line prompts and from there to mouse and desktop computing, eventually the desktop paradigm will have to make place for something better. </p>

<p>Apple is betting with iPhone and iPad on ease of use and simplicity instead of flexibility and raw power. It is not yet certain if that bet is going to pay off but the next five to ten years are definitely going to be very exciting.</p>
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    <title>The iPad is all good and great and etc...</title>
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    <id>tag:www.kurutepe.com,2010://1.43</id>

    <published>2010-01-27T23:39:25Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-27T23:45:16Z</updated>

    <summary>But did you really have to call it the iPad after Mad TV did this in 2007, Apple?...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>But did you really have to call it the iPad after Mad TV did this in 2007, Apple?</p>

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<entry>
    <title>The Uzbek State and Umida Akhmedova&apos;s Pictures</title>
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    <id>tag:www.kurutepe.com,2010://1.42</id>

    <published>2010-01-27T09:54:06Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-28T00:14:27Z</updated>

    <summary>Umida Akhmedova is an Uzbek photographer whose album called &#8220;Men and Women from Dawn to Dusk&#8221; shows Uzbek people and their way of life and traditions. The album was published in 2007 contains about 100 pictures, 10 of which can...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Umida Akhmedova is an Uzbek photographer whose album called &#8220;Men and Women from Dawn to Dusk&#8221; shows Uzbek people and their way of life and traditions. The album was published in 2007 contains about 100 pictures, 10 of which can be seen <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8473285.stm">here</a>.</p>

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<p>It all sounds fine. But it isn&#8217;t. Umida is being accused of defamation and insulting Uzbek traditions because the authorities feel that she is depicting Uzbekistan as a backward country. A special commission set up by the general prosecutor has already found that her images distort reality. She has been banned from leaving the country and faces up to 6 months in prison and up to 3 years of public labor.</p>

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<p>This is simply outrageous. Something is depicting Uzbekistan as backward, alright. But it is definitely not Umida Akhmedova&#8217;s pictures. They are one of the best examples of photojournalism I have seen recently. More of her fine pictures can be seen <a href="http://www.fergana.info/details.php?image_id=1220">here</a>.</p>

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<p>I think this is a clear case of the ones in power reflecting their own dislike and disrespect for their own people to Umida. The Uzbek state can only see backward and uneducated people in those pictures because they think of those people as backward and uneducated people which need to be modernized, educated and westernized, to fit in with the image of the ideal Uzbek citizen the Uzbek state have in their mind. </p>

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<p>This quite a common mindset of the state in many countries who had to go through a period of nation building in their recent history. Similar issues can still be seen in Turkey after almost eighty years of the independent republic. In Uzbekistan&#8217;s, case this is clearly even more drastic, having gained their independence from the USSR less than 20 years ago.</p>

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<entry>
    <title>Indie+Relief: Translate contribution</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.kurutepe.com/2010/01/indierelief-translate-contribution" />
    <id>tag:www.kurutepe.com,2010://1.41</id>

    <published>2010-01-21T22:50:57Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-21T23:00:16Z</updated>

    <summary>Developers, including yours truly, participating in Indie+Relief had pledged to donate all of their proceeds on Jan 20th to Haiti earthquake victims. Now, that the Jan 20th is behind us, the results for Translate are in: Translate managed to raise...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Developers, including yours truly, participating in <a href="http://www.indierelief.com">Indie+Relief</a> had pledged to donate all of their proceeds on Jan 20th to Haiti earthquake victims. </p>

<p>Now, that the Jan 20th is behind us, the results for Translate are in: Translate managed to raise $36 for Haiti.</p>

<p>Which is not much when compared to bigger boys participating in Indie+Relief, but it is still better than nothing and will be donated in full to <a href="http://drk.de">Deutsches Rotes Kreuz - German Red Cross</a>, I hope it helps someone help someone&#8230;</p>

<p>Indie+Relief organizers have yet to make the grand total public but latest numbers I heard were around $30,000&#8230;</p>
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<entry>
    <title>Sezin Öney - Trajedi</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.kurutepe.com/2010/01/sezin-oney---trajedi" />
    <id>tag:www.kurutepe.com,2010://1.40</id>

    <published>2010-01-21T22:41:48Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-21T22:46:26Z</updated>

    <summary>Sanırım, ve ne yazık ki, Sezin Öney&#8217;in bugünkü yazısı, okuduğum ilk yazısı. Uzun uzun yorum yapacak bir şey yok, çok güzel yazmış, kalemine sağlık, gidin okuyun&#8230;...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Sanırım, ve ne yazık ki, Sezin Öney&#8217;in <a href="http://taraf.com.tr/makale/9615.htm">bugünkü yazısı</a>, okuduğum ilk yazısı. Uzun uzun yorum yapacak bir şey yok, çok güzel yazmış, kalemine sağlık, gidin okuyun&#8230;</p>
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<entry>
    <title>iProxy - Open Source tethering for iPhone</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.kurutepe.com/2010/01/iproxy---open-source-tethering-for-iphone" />
    <id>tag:www.kurutepe.com,2010://1.39</id>

    <published>2010-01-21T22:30:24Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-21T22:50:39Z</updated>

    <summary>Torsten Curdt made the source code of his network sharing app for iPhone publicly available. Similar to once-available-on-the-appstore-for-a-brief-time NetShare, this app allows you to access the wireless connection of your iPhone with your laptop anywhere. Unfortunately this little app cannot...</summary>
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        <name>Engin</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Torsten Curdt made the source code of his <a href="http://vafer.org/blog/20100120001443/">network sharing app</a> for iPhone publicly available. Similar to once-available-on-the-appstore-for-a-brief-time <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5031802/iphone-apps-we-love-netshare-+-share-your-3gedge-connection-with-your-computer">NetShare</a>, this app allows you to access the wireless connection of your iPhone with your laptop anywhere. Unfortunately this little app cannot be distributed on the AppStore to the general iPhone-toting public due to contractual issues with the mobile network providers. </p>

<p>However, if you have an iPhone developer account, download, build, install and knock yourselves out&#8230;</p>
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    <title>Donation to Haiti</title>
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    <published>2010-01-16T02:51:13Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-16T15:52:19Z</updated>

    <summary>I am more than pleased and actually very proud to be part of Indie+Relief, where all participating independent software developers donate their proceeds on Jan. 20th, 2010 to Haiti relief effort. I am contributing with whatever humble amount Translate raises...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I am more than pleased and actually very proud to be part of <a href="http://www.indierelief.com/">Indie+Relief</a>, where all participating independent software developers donate their proceeds on Jan. 20th, 2010 to Haiti relief effort. I am contributing with whatever humble amount <a href="http://www.kurutepe.com/translate">Translate</a> raises on that day.</p>

<p>Please go check-out the <a href="http://www.indierelief.com/">website</a> and purchase any software you might need and rest assured that every single cent (after Apple, Paypal etc. take their cut) you pay will go to help the survivors in Haiti.</p>

<p>&#8220;You get great software, Haiti gets financial help in its time of crisis.&#8221;</p>
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    <title>The Earthquake in Haiti</title>
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    <published>2010-01-14T21:05:04Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-14T21:27:48Z</updated>

    <summary>The devastation in Haiti is large. There is not much one can say. Boston.com maintains a frequently updated page with pictures from the disaster zone. The aftermath of an earthquake can be just as dangerous as the earthquake itself. Medical...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>The devastation in Haiti is large. There is not much one can say. Boston.com maintains a frequently updated <a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/01/earthquake_in_haiti.html">page</a> with pictures from the disaster zone. </p>

<p>The aftermath of an earthquake can be just as dangerous as the earthquake itself. Medical supplies for the injured, sanitation equipment and water treatment to prevent cholera outbreaks, food and shelter for the survivors are big challenges which need to be financed and organized&#8230;</p>

<p>Donating to aid organizations such as <a href="http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&amp;s_src=RSG000000000&amp;s_subsrc=RCO_FrontPagePanel">The Red Cross</a>, <a href="https://www.drk.de/spenden/online/lastschrift.html?no_cache=1">Deutsches Rotes Kreuz</a>, <a href="http://bagis.kizilay.org.tr/bagis/index.php">Türk Kızılayı</a>, <a href="http://doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/?ref=main-menu">Doctors Without Borders</a>, <a href="http://www.supportunicef.org/site/pp.asp?c=9fLEJSOALpE&amp;b=1023561">UNICEF</a>, and others can go a great way to help the survivors.</p>
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    <title>Koş Bedrettin Koş, Yılmaz Sana Gazete Verecekmiş</title>
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    <id>tag:www.kurutepe.com,2010://1.36</id>

    <published>2010-01-13T20:00:32Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-13T20:55:43Z</updated>

    <summary>Hani insan normalde tembeldir. Aklına yazacak bir şey gelir ama sonra o an zamanı olmaz, unutur sonra üşenir&#8230; Ama bazen de böyle bir şey görür insan, şaşar kalır, yazıya ayrı şaşırır, yazana ayrı şaşırır&#8230; Yılmaz Özdil, bu eşi bulunmaz yazısında...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Hani insan normalde tembeldir. Aklına yazacak bir şey gelir ama sonra o an zamanı olmaz, unutur sonra üşenir&#8230;</p>

<p>Ama bazen de böyle bir <a href="http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/yazarlar/13459852.asp">şey</a> görür insan, şaşar kalır, yazıya ayrı şaşırır, yazana ayrı şaşırır&#8230;</p>

<p>Yılmaz Özdil, bu eşi bulunmaz yazısında geçen günlerde Haliç Köprüsü üzerinde mendil satan çoçukların bölge kavgasında öldüresiyle dövdüğü mendilci çoçuk <a href="http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/id/25042730/">Bedrettin&#8217;in dramına</a> çare buluyor. Bir Marie Antoniette edası ile diyor ki, biz zaten ne yaparsak yapalım, aileleri bu çoçukları okula göndermek yerine onlara sokaklarda bir şeyler sattıracak. Bari gazete satsınlar. </p>

<p>Tamam kabul, Yılmaz Özdil ne derin analizleri ne de sağlam fikirleri ile kendine isim yapmış bir yazar değil. Ama &#8220;çocuklar mendil satmasın, okula gidemiyorlar, üç beş kuruş için birbirlerini öldüresiye dövüyorlar, onun yerine gazete sattıralım, o zaman gene okula gidemezler gene o durak senin bu durak benim birbirlerini döverler ama hiç olmazsa bizim tirajımız biraz artar&#8221; demek de ne mantığa ne de insanlığa sığar.</p>

<p>Brecht&#8217;ten serbest uyarlama <a href="http://www.kurutepe.com/2009/11/ataturkun-terorle-mucadele-politikasi">tekrar</a> geliyor: Düşün ki koca koca adamlar böyle lakırdılar ediyolar ve kimse gülmüyor&#8230;</p>

<p>Şimdi oturduğum yerden ahkam kesip boş boş eleştirmek kolay denebilir, hatta gerçekten öyle de. Ama madem Sayın Özdil, hem çocukların maddi durumu kötü olan ailelerine katkıda bulunmalarını kaçınılmaz, hem okula gitmelerini gerekli görüyor hem de gazetesinin tirajini arttırmak derdinde, buyrun efendim işte size proce, bir taşla üç kuş birden, yanında da bu tükenmez kalem bedava:</p>

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<li><p><a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.hurriyet.com.tr" title="Hürriyet" rel="homepage">Hürriyet</a>, mendilci çocuklara satmaları için gazeteleri hibe etsin yada makul bir kar edebilecekleri fiyata versin. Ancak, yalnız haftasonları&#8230; Elde var aile bütçesine katkı, haftaiçi okula gidebilecek, derslere çalışabilecek zaman. Fazladan satılan gazeteleri saymıyorum bile onun bana faydası yok, Yılmaz Özdil sevinsin&#8230;</p></li>
<li><p>Hürriyet, Doğan Medya Grubu, sivil toplum örgütleri, hayırsever hali vakti yerindeler, el ele verip bu gazete satan çocukların asgari okul masraflarını karşılasın. Kampanya düzenleyip halkı da desteğe çağırabilirler, karşılığında karnelerine bakıp &#8220;aferin evladım ama matematiğe biraz daha gayret&#8221; deme  ve hep pekiyi getirenlere bisiklet hediye etme haklarını da saklı tutabilirler, bence bir sakıncası yok. Etti mi bize aile bütçesine biraz daha katkı ve çocukları okula yollamak için teşvik? Böyle bir hayır işi üzerinden yapılacak reklamı, sulanacak gözleri, ferahlayacak gönülleri de saymıyorum, onların da bana faydası yok.</p></li>
<li><p>Neden helva yapmıyoruz bakkal amca? Derdimiz sadece çocukların üzerinden iyi insan gibi görünüp, boş ve saçma sapan lakırdi edip tribünlere oynamak, fazladan gazete satmak mı acaba? </p></li>
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<p>Yok bence öyle değildir&#8230;</p>

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    <title>Letter from Kurt Vonnegut to home</title>
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    <id>tag:www.kurutepe.com,2010://1.35</id>

    <published>2010-01-12T20:41:04Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-12T20:53:17Z</updated>

    <summary>Kurt Vonnegut was a private during the second world war and was taken prisoner by the Germans in the last days of the war. He was shipped to Dresden to work, where he witnessed and survived the fire bombing of...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut" rel="wikipedia">Kurt Vonnegut</a> was a private during the second world war and was taken prisoner by the Germans in the last days of the war. He was shipped to <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden" title="Dresden" rel="wikipedia">Dresden</a> to work, where he witnessed and survived the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebombing" title="Firebombing" rel="wikipedia">fire bombing</a> of the city by the Americans and the British. He tells his story from the perspective of a foot soldier in &#8220;<a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five" title="Slaughterhouse-Five" rel="wikipedia">Slaughter House 5</a>&#8221;. An amazing book where the official glorious and heroic acts of war get a more and humane face. </p>

<p><a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/" title="Letters of Note" rel="homepage">Letters of Note</a> recently published a <a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/11/slaughterhouse-five.html">letter</a> written by Vonnegut to his family back home after he was freed by the Russians. The letter is a concise summary of his story after being captured and is unmistakably Vonnegut in its tone.</p>
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