The Air Force is going to study blogs, forking over nearly half a million dollars for a three year study.
The Passport over at Foreign Policy has some amusing meta-commentary on the story.
I truthfully never thought I'd be of much use to the Air Force. My eye-sight isn't all that great, so that pretty much makes me useless as a pilot. I'm not much of a physical specimen, so any sort of effects-of-g-forces-on-the-human-body type tests would probably not do anyone any bit of good. And I'll be damned if I'm ever going to do something
this crazy. But I am happy to be of some use (or merely interest) to the armed forces.
Please remind the members of the 101st Fightin' Keyboardists that this does not qualify as military service.