Week 68
02.17.03
http://www.guardian.co.uk/antiwar/ subsection/0,12809,884056,00.html
Uh-oh, the Guardian in the UK has gone and loudly blogged every major antiwar
website in the digital universe. No-Global is about to go mainstream as
No-War, with the biggest street demos in a generation. Cross your fingers
and hope they're nice and velvety and peaceable like they were
in 1989, as opposed to, say, 1968.
02.18.03
Excellent public-spirited contest here for the world's stupidest
so-called "security" measures.
http://www.privacyinternational.org/ activities/stupidsecurity/
02.19.03
Today's put-upon kids, who are growing up in war and depression, may not
know this, but kids, when things are just rotten, heartbreaking, and no
damn good at all, no rock band in the whole world sounds quite as
good as The Smiths.
http://shoplifters.morrissey-solo.com/
02.20.03
Ceca Raznatovic has the rare distinction of being a hot, busty, pop-star
babe who is also the widow of a loathsome, genocidal war
criminal.
http://www.pbs.org/weta/dictator/serbia/ turbonationalism.html
Lots of ardent fans, too.
http://www.ceca.8m.com/
http://www.ceca.de/ceca/
http://www.ceca-raznatovic.com
http://www.ceca.at
http://www.ceca2000.co.yu
02.21.03
It was very likely some spy outfit in ex-Yugoland who built these evil
little cellphone guns. They made dozens or maybe even
hundreds.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/ popoff/mobile_phone_gun_0011201.popoff/ index.html
Check out the animated action on that baby.
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/video/ cellgun.mpg
Yes they really do exist, no I didn't make 'em up.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/ cellgun.htm
Here's a nonlethal, 180,000-volt stungun version.
http://www.stungunsandtasers.com/ cellphonestungun.htm
Howzabout a pager stuffed with blinding pepper spray? Could be great for taking
down some guy as he goes for his cellphone gun.
http://www.stungunsandtasers.com/ pepperpager.htm
Check out that nasty calculator knife in the middle of the cellphone gun
page.
http://www.iacsp.com/deadly-decoys.html
The real killer apps for cellphones aren't hiding bullets, but blowing
people's heads right off and detonating passing cars.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/ 6163.html
Bruce Sterling writes books like Darwin watched animals. Find out more about him,
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He lives with his wife Nancy and their two daughters in Austin, Texas.
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