Week 4
11.26.2001
www.afghanan.net/kabul/page2.htm
Okay, it's a weapons bunker in Afghanistan, it's also a hospital,
and it's supposed to be Osama bin Laden's "house."
What I want to know is: what about bin Laden's
*interior decor*? Was Ossie doing the classic
Islam prayer rug and pillow thing? You know, like maybe
the Kashmiri chain-stitch item from islamshop.com?
http://www.islamshop.com/ishop/
search_result.asp?Category=Home
And maybe the *digital Mosque clock.* That looks handy.
http://www.islamshop.com/ishop/
fdetail1.asp?product_ID=I1001
11.27.2001
150 years of Iranian feminists. When you're an Iranian feminist,
you get to write books with titles like "Crowning Anguish."
http://www.payvand.com/women/
http://www.iranian.com/History/2000/ March/Women/index3.html
There's like, a little Iranian Feminist newsletter and stuff.
http://www.badjens.com/ngos/index.htm
Disco Teheran, baby. Sexy Persian supermodels in bikini!
http://www.topsitelists.com/bestsites/ farsi/listall.html
11.28.2001
Some Dutch guys and some DARPA guys are training wasps
to sniff out dope and explosives. No, not WASPs, I mean
actual bugs. The wasps are cheaper and eat less than
dogs, and even though they don't whine and point, they
do nod their little parasitic wasp heads when they smell
items of interest with their antennae.
http://www.augustachronicle.com/
stories/013199/met_LG0419-7.000.shtml
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/
20011119/od/wasps_dc_1.html
Spool down this page, and check out that helmeted cyborg honeybee.
Maybe they can get her to remotely target cruise missiles.
http://www.coxnews.com/washington/ ANIMAL.HTM
11.29.2001
http://www.breakthechain.org/whatsnew.html
Latest chain-letters on the Internet. A good place to
check the collective unconscious of the cut-and-paste
lumpenproletariate. Urban Legends tend to be a bit
vapid after you've read your first couple of hundred,
but it's nice to have a report that's all up-to-date.
http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/
These guys do nothing but fight the Nigerian 419
Advance Fee Fraud Scam. Lately I've been getting
a couple of 419 pitches every day.
11.30.2001
Got some time (and a mouse) on your hands? Why don't you
help NASA catalog Martian craters?
http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/top
http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/ faq.html#faq7
Pimps, call girls and rent boys offer their considerable
street-wisdom on the psychological after-effects of 9.11.
Warning: of course it's all mighty seamy. Better
not look.
http://www.alternet.org/ story.html?StoryID=11928
Bruce Sterling is a science-fiction writer who lives in Texas. The sun is a G-type star out towards the edge of the Milky Way.
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