Some local news:
According to GeoURL my closest neighbor is Tanya, the Arizona Escort, who uses a cartoon stripper to warn kids away from her "weblog". Wow. I wouldn't mind runnin' yo ass.
Only two of my blogrollees are on the list. Evo's somewhere around Sedona... And Chris, you're inland in California, like Riverside? (Nice shot of Hunter Thompson.)
Fliping through the blogs, wKen (d'only blogger hoo letz yuno wennan' howie duzit) had a pointer to Stav who writes:
I live about 30 km south of downtown Seoul [south Korea.] I recently asked my wife if she knew what to do if she were to see a sudden bright flash in the sky outside our kitchen window, which looks north: drop, stay away from the windows, move to the bathroom at the center of the apartment, and wait for the shockwave and its backlash to pass.
My guess is that we'd probably survive an airburst, if it were to happen.
In 1959 I was in 2nd grade. Mrs. Streubal (rhymes with "Screwball" - second graders, what can I say...) drilled us daily on the proper procedure to follow if we were to catch a glimpse of a nuclear fireball. Years later a governments training film on nuclear battle survival shows the shockwave moving at 500 miles an hour at about 250°C. Buildings and people are disintegrated and the 'drop and cover' civil defence drills are exposed as useless. Twenty miles distance may be enough to mitigate the blast effect, but that would mean a low yield fission would have been used - the type of weapon that produces the most radioactive dust, so death will be delayed and much messier.
Sorry dude.
War in any venue will have horrid effects. The answer is not in demonizing President Bush, he is only a mouthpiece for a new breed of global haters. Thirty years ago public pressure stopped a war-in-progress - we must keep this 'War on Terror" from becoming a "War on Everybody". I appreciate the diplomatic intensity of brinksmanship, but it can get out of hand, and I don't see any leaders anywhere who can contain it.
In a cool and somewhat analogous situation, Winny de Jong is putting herself foward as the succesor to Pim Fortuyn, the recently murdered ultra-right candidate in the Netherlands. A Flemish-pornish thing that, well, could be the exact answer to the above diplomatic dilemna!
Thanks Niek.
One more international note, and this one is a real treat.
China is infamous on the internet for having a government that controls internet access. Ziboy provides a unique and intimate look at everyday life on the streets of Beijing. The daily crop of snapshots give a real feel to the place that many Americans believe to be the other side of the earth. Although this busy server comes out on a 28.8 kbaud modem (judging by the load time) it is addictive. Let's hope this site does not get censored.
Butterflies by Heather McLaughlin.
