by Chris Barrus
So this thing has been flying since 1996 and I’m sure it accounts for a nontrivial amount of Area 51 freakouts. As with the F-117, it’s hard to get a handle on just what this thing looks like. I’m sure the folks over at Jane’s have just pulled the phone out of the wall by now.
The promo films on the Boeing site are a prime piece of ephemeral military promo films. Am I the only person to immediately think of the line “The Crossbow Project… Because the best defense is a good offense!”
From the UC Irvine Internet Weather Report:
A totally remarkable site with aerial photographs of pretty much the entire California coastline. Here’s downtown Laguna Beach for starters.
Viking Kittens. Silly Flash movie of the week.
So does anyone else find it utterly ironic that Michael Moore’s appearance on the MSNBC Phil Donahue show (for the Bowling For Columbine premiere in Flint) was pre-empted by meta-reporting on the Tarot Card Sniper?
Let the conspiracies fly fast and wide on this…
An armed lunatic plaguing the Washington, DC area has managed to do more harm to American cyber-defence with a single .223 caliber bullet than an entire squadron of PLA hackers could hope to accomplish, Vmyths editor Rob Rosenberger points out in a recent rant.
FBI National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) cyber-analyst Linda Franklin became the Beltway sniper’s eleventh victim shot and ninth victim murdered last Monday as she loaded her car with merchandise in a suburban DC shopping mall.
A million Japanese boys, hiding in their rooms.
Teenage boys in Japan’s cities are turning into modern hermits – never leaving their rooms. Pressure from schools and an inability to talk to their families are suggested causes. Phil Rees visits the country to see what the “hikikomori” condition is all about.
Tony Soprano has got a blog.
A handy reference giude to who hates whom and why in Central, Eastern, Western, and Southern Europe as compiled by a Russian alternative newspaper.
Sociology forum of the moment… The Sociopranos.