From the BBC:

The US Army is to apologise to the families of officers killed or wounded in action who were sent letters urging them to return to active duty.

The letters were sent to more than 5,100 Army officers listed as recently having left the military.

But this figure included about 75 officers killed in action and about 200 wounded in action.

Darn those database errors.

Some oil experts think the Iraq conflict has actually helped drive the price of oil up.

This NYT piece looks at why one person might jump to save a total stranger from an approaching subway train when most people wouldn't.

The NYT reports there is a serious "parking rage" problem in the city that gave the world Rice-a-roni as a treat. And that rage is playing out with attacks on parking control officers (surprise, surprise).

Salon on the people who are really advising Dubya on Iraq: What they want is escalation, with 25,000 U.S. troops in Baghdad.