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, 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.