- A computer tech, whenever he uses a library or public computer, changes the background/desktop to this graph. Here's how: (1) Click Start, and then click Control Panel (2) Click Appearance and Themes (3) Under Pick a task, click Change the desktop background (4) To use a picture from a Web site, on the site, right-click the image, and then click Set as Desktop Background.
- A college student tells me she pins the chart to her backpack.
- A trucker says he just scrawls the daily total in the road scum on the rear of long-haul trucks.
- Someone wrote that he pastes the chart inside both rear windows of his car so others can read it at the stoplight.
- One writer puts this at the bottom of every email: "US military killed in Iraq = 1,330 - http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/USfatalities.html".
- An OIF veteran paints the number on his truck with removable paint. He will be returning there next summer and writes "Keep it up!" Think about that.
- Every Saturday demonstrators decorate their flag-drapped fake coffin with numerals, backed with velcro for easy change.
- Taping 3" or 4" reflective mailbox numbers in a vehicle's rear window is highly visible, especially at night, and easy to update.
- A math teacher uses the casualty count in algebra and pre-calculus classes. Search "Iraq" here and here.
- A writer has a 12' sign on the front of her house, on a busy street, that reads "THE COST OF BUSH'S WAR IN IRAQ DEAD / DOLLARS"; she changes the numbers weekly.
- Check out The Downing Street Memo and follow up on the action suggestions.
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