The US Military – via the DoD – is currently investigating the potential use of moths as the frontline in stealth surveillance. The idea is to plant "micro-mechanical systems inside the insects during the early stages of metamorphisis" so that they become, essentially, remote-controlled. Recording devices would then be implanted and some lucky chap in a darkened room somewhere secret in the festy bowels of the US military would fly the poor bugger into…I dunno…caves in Afghanistan I guess…
Politics
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Jul 07
Jul 07
What would Jesus do?
Now I know Jesus wasn’t all peachy – after all, he was the guy who promised eternal damnation to anyone who didn’t accept his teachings (and eternity is a really fucking long time) – but he was, generally, a pretty stand-up guy. Which is why whenever someone preaches prejudice, intolerance or hate at you all you gotta do is say, "C’mon man, what would Jesus do?"
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Jul 07
Jul 07
Not-So-Tough Guys
For me, one of the starkest messages to contextualise the Iraq War was the juxtaposition of two images in an Adbusters issue last year. They placed, side-by-side, two photos. One was of a couple of bikini-clad girls taking in funnels of beer at Spring Break, surrounded by a tanned, cheering crowd. The other was of a group of American soliders street-side in Iraq, suffering an attack from an unidentified bomber, dwarfed by a fiery explosion.
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May 07
May 07
War Games and a Flat White Hunt
The attacks came in multiple forms - overloaded web servers, published images of Soviet soldiers on government pages and a hacked fake message on the ruling party’s website seeking forgiveness for the statue fiasco – all of which would seem to suggest there was at least Russian motivation if not government involvement. The Kremlin has denied such dastardliness however, and the Estonian government has since lowered that nervous finger. Inherent in such online crime though is the hiding and faking of tracks and Estonia may never know – or at least be able to prove – who exactly is to blame, despite the contextual inference that may suggest otherwise.
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May 07
May 07
God Hates Fags
Jerry Falwell, founder of the rather unhelpful Moral Majority is dead. His legacy will live on through the twisted prejudice of spittling rednecks and the conservative wedge of the American middle-class whom he seeded and nourished during his years in prominence as a hate-monger.