Joseph DeLappe has taken on a unique charge: entering the names of all the American soldiers who have died in Iraq into the online multiplayer game America’s Army. America’s Army is a recruiting and training tool produced by the Army, and populated by people who are having fun virtually killing people. (Which is not at all a condemnation of the behavior: I’m fully in favor of virtual fragfests.) Leads to some interestingly ironic screenshots.

I’m beginning to catch glimpses of a future in which your paycheck comes not from a single employer, or even from a set of clients, but from a cloud of content that you’ve created and spread to the electronic wind. You won’t collect anything particularly consequential for any single bit of content, but in aggregate you’ll be able to put food on the table. Revver is one company looking to make that future happen by appending advertisements to your uploaded video, and sharing the revenue with you.

I really want to see The War Tapes. Blogs written by soldiers in Iraq are one way those of us at home can get a candid view about what the war is to those who are fighting it. This movie, filmed entirely by National Guard soldiers on deployment, is another.

LyricWiki is about what you’d expect, a wiki for documenting song lyrics by just about everyone. No Lyrics Born though.

The Space Fellowship covers the news that the X-Prize/NASA collaboration is a $2.5 Million Lunar Lander Challenge.