Week 91

08.4.03

I'm not a big nanotech true believer, but whoa, that teensy little motor is scaring me.

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/
releases/2003/07/23_motor.shtml

08.5.03

Here is the "Criminal Ukraine" website, which may not look like much, except that some guy who posts on it just got shot with a stungun and walloped with a metal pipe.

http://www.cripo.com.ua/

08.6.03

This Yukos scandal is even worse than Elf-Aquitaine. Wherever there is oil, there is mayhem.

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/
2003/07/21/001.html

http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/
2003/07/17/009.html

08.7.03

Fry 'em without warning out of a clear blue sky.

http://www.af.mil/news/
Jun2002/n20020620_0996.shtml

The local version, suitable for domestic use.

08.8.03

Nice piece of lit-crit here; this guy is clearly smack in the target demographic for something-or-other.

http://www.alattimore.com/bin/geeklog/
article.php?story=20030616213417398

Bruce Sterling writes books like Darwin watched animals. Find out more about him, and read tattered electronic copies of Cheap Truth, at the Bruce Sterling Online Index. He lives with his wife Nancy and their two daughters in Austin, Texas.