First of all, a quick aside: Unsharp Mask, Hue/Saturation and Levels can turn this into this. Photoshop is awesome. I didn't think I'd get much out of that original, since they couldn't give us a larger version.

Now, all sorts of cool audio and articles and pictures!

Men who wear the face veil
New addition to a longer article that I helped research.

Army chaplains
Researched and written by yours truly, also responsible for judicious chopping-up of audio, photos and quotations. As you can see, in places I've put heavy emphasis on letting the guys tell it in their own words. I think they say it best, and anyway, I can't fathom their logic to rephrase it.

Jerusalem gallery
Captions emphatically not researched by me, who wouldn't touch that topic with a +3 stabbity vorpal broadsword unless I had to. Have to be so careful - witness this guide for BBC journalists...

All these articles were written and made at various times, but by coincidence we ended up launching them all this morning. Hectic. I'm quite stressed. Now going to a training session about our shiny new VOIP phones.

I think this guy (from a BBC Backstage mailing list) has the funniest signature I've seen this month.

SELECT * FROM remarks WHERE witty=1 LIMIT 1

It's SQL, and (I'm sure someone who actually knows SQL will correct me on my translation) says "select one record from everything in the 'remarks' table, with the condition that it must be witty". So it's a SQL way of saying "insert witty remark here".

(I think this statement would always return the same witty remark unless you added some kind of command about ordering the results. Not sure, though.)

I'm very easily amused by jokes in languages I don't know well, purely from the excitement of being able to understand them.