When you are a geek traveling in Iraq, you come across the craziest things! Like this neat little explosive device for instance. Only one call missed? Wow, this is sure a lot different from what we are used to seeing.

Earlier this week, I posted an item on Boing Boing about Jacob Appelbaum’s geek trip to Iraq (HOWTO set up a VSAT in Iraq). The 22-year old San Francisco resident known also as “ioerror” tells BB he’s in the country on vacation, “not working for anyone, paid for the trip out of my own pocket, visiting some friends here.” He’s taking gigs and gigs of digital photos with his Canon 20D, including this series about buying a pair of Generation 3 Night Vision Goggles for only $900USD.

Here’s another post on Jake’s blog about IEDs — improvised explosive devices — in Iraq. Shown here, an IED constructed with a cellular phone. One call missed. [Read the rest]