Middle East Update

Charles at lgf has spotted what looks to be an incredible error, or a blatant swipe by the MSM in addressing the military qualifications of Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert.

I've created two high resolution maps which will give those following events in Lebanon and Israel a geographical sense of what's going on on the ground. I've pinpointed attacks where I could and included text explanations. You'll get a sense of what a pounding Lebanon is taking, as well a feel for the range of the rocket attacks against Israel. Both images are large and clickable for full view.

For up to date reports, check in at Pajamas Media, Hot Air and several links I have listed below.

Comments

[frontinus]

Need a much, much bigger map. Or stick them in pdf format.

[Dan]

Maybe you need glasses. Click on them to open them full size.

[frontinus]

Thanks for your concern. But the pictures are 640x589 and 548x503. You try looking at them on a 21" CRT at 1600x1200. Damn things are the size of playing cards. I saved them and blew them up in size with IrfanView but if the goal is to have people look at them with the least amount of work then making them larger or easily scalable is preferable to what I had to do. Just a heads up.

[frontinus]

Btw, those maps are well done. There's so much going on so rapidly keeping track is a pain. This is the best compilation I've come across. I didn't mean to come across as petty griping about the size.

[Dan]

Welp, sorry bout that. But they are the same size taken from a good map site - and text I added was larger than theirs - so I didn't think abyone would have an issue. Besides that, the larger they get, the more bandwidth they eat up - so there's two sides to every coin. ; ) Happy surfing.

[TC@LeatherPenguin]

frontinus: congrats on your monitor; now knock down the rez and you won't have the "playing card" problem, skippy.

[TC@LeatherPenguin]

"The Internets: Where the technologically clueless get in the way thanks to "plug and play."

[frontinus]

True, true. If you try IrfanView you can pretty easily tinker with the lossy compression for jpg's to get a decent size. I just took a 544x379, 71 kb picture...blew it up to 1088x744, 434 kb...then converted that to 1088x744 and 54.6 kb :) Image quality was barely changed. Some middle ground would probably work perfectly without a noticeable difference.

I'm sure other programs can do similar things but I've only had experience with Irfan(it's free).

[frontinus]

Come on, man. It's 2006. I haven't been at below 1600x1200 since atleast 2004. Anyways, it was only a small quibble. No biggie. It's just that scalable pdf's or something close to common resolutions(1024, 1152, 1280, etc.) would make for fewer issues. But if I'm the only one then forget I said anything. I've already resized my copies :)

[The Opinionator]

Regarding the Olmert slander, so what if it were true? He is still the PM. To listen to the Left and their media darling friends, only Bill Clinton was qualified to lead his country without military service.

[MoscowGirl]

Well, Dan. I very much appreicte your stand on Israel vs. "shitsky-muslitsy"...... :=).

[auspatriotman]

Dan
Super job!!! I'm set on 800x600 (presbyope) still use my readers and I see it fine. Thanks for a super job. I am a map guy and it helps tremendously to put all the words to a graphic explanation. I keep a number of maps next to my hard drive on top of my desk here and find that as I read about the world events it gives me a much needed dimension to what is going on. I read you rather regulary and you do a great job.
Thank You!
AUSPatriotman