Looking for more adventure than the staid office parks of Silicon Valley will ever offer? Can you front-end your way through a minefield and reboot a server under enemy fire? Want to exercise those libertarian gun fantasies in the real world? And how about pulling down a $200K salary while you're at it? Well, then, rifle-toting geeks, Uncle Sam has a job for you. Only one hitch, Ajaxian points out: It's a Web-developer gig in Iraq. (Photo by minjung)

Joining the likes of Yahoo in using Ajax technologies, Facebook reduces the number of times users have to click through to another page to use its website. One more nail in the coffin of pageviews as a Web metric. [Read/WriteWeb]

Welcome a new word to the Valleyspeak family. Overheard in an IM chat: