Week 81
05.26.03
Pablo Picasso, anarchist enemy of the state.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/ 0,,3-682616,00.html
05.27.03
There may be rotting little aluminum bombs inside your PC, ready to drench your memory in acid at any time.
http://www.ttiinc.com/MarketEye/ Aluminum_Cap_Issue.asp
Did I mention the industrial-spy angle?
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/ resource/feb03/ncap.html
05.28.03
She's an American academic specializing in Brazilian science
fiction. Double her funding, I say.
http://www.alanmooresenhordocaos.hpg.ig.com.br/ entrevistas27.htm
05.29.03
Heartbreaking and extremely detailed article on the
things people do to cheat at massively multiplayer
online games. One sees a lot of the same behavior
at casinos obsessive cheats who spend ten years
of their lives fanatically perfecting a card trick
to get maybe three hundred bucks.
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/ 20000724/pritchard_pfv.htm
05.30.03
Well, Milosevic kinda overdid it when he and the
Zemun Gang boys had Zoran Djindjic whacked, because
now most everybody's willing to testify.
http://www.serbia.sr.gov.yu/news/ 2003-03/23/328326.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/ story/0,1280,-2645381,00.html
Some indicted Yugo war criminals are still wandering around
loose from the earlier unpleasantries, and the USA
would like them rounded up. Nobody's arresting these blood-drenched genocidal conspirators, though. Probably because they look so placid and normal.
http://www.state.gov/s/wci/fs/17650.htm
http://www.state.gov/s/wci/fs/17643.htm
http://www.state.gov/s/wci/fs/17670.htm
http://www.state.gov/s/wci/fs/17598.htm
Hey wait a minute, what if that war-crime court starts indicting
Americans? Can't have that!
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/icc/us.htm
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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