links and links

- via mindhacks: Remember This: A woman with unusually detailed and comprehensive memory of pretty much everything, a man with debilitating amnesia (who doesn't realize anything's wrong), a little bit of physiology, and a history of memory in culture. Terribly well-written, very nice.

- US-Iraqi contract 'in disarray'. Surprise! They can't account for where the billion dollars went, when they were supposed to be training the Iraqi police. (previously: The Great Iraq Swindle: your money, hard at work. No-bid "cost-plus" contracts, flying palettes of cash into war zones, and you.)