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Everyman's WMD

Well, it looks like Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction have finally been found.

The New York Times has a video showing how the deposed Iraqi president planned to repel an American invasion (or perhaps to take over the world) using slingshots, crossbows, gasoline bombs, and Ninja throwing stars.

Surely this absolves the Bush administration of any guilt in the invasion of Iraq.

Blaine in giant 'meat grinder' stunt

NEW YORK (BBC) - David Blaine has begun his latest stunt, being slowly turned inside a giant sausage grinder above the streets of New York. Blaine will emerge from the meat grinder near Times Square in a 3-day process before attempting to escape from some shackles.

"This is more difficult than anything I've ever done," Blaine said before he was loaded into the contraption, which was then hoisted up 50ft (15m).

The spinning steel teeth inside the grinder can tear Blaine into smooth chunks of sausage-style bits. He will come out into a large pork-skin sheath. The shackles will be added to Blaine on Thursday, giving him 16 hours to free himself.

The illusionist said his biggest concerns, besides not eating or drinking, were the freezing weather, dizziness, and putting himself back together after being chopped to bits in the giant meat grinder.

Satire using a shortened, loosely re-written news article published in BBC News, Tuesday, November 21, 2006.

Labels: Satire

Wiki 'R' Us

I just joined the community over at WeAreSmarter.org, where the effort is to build a wiki-style book entitled "We Are Smarter Than Me." I'm excited about the prospect. Created by UK publishing giant Pearson PLC with collaborators Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and MIT Sloan School, the book will explore the role of online communities, Internet technologies, and Web content in all aspects of business development. In the end the wiki authors themselves will vote on a charity to receive royalties from the book's sales. I'm sure small business interests could have done this, too, but in this case it looks like the big fish are swimming faster.

Related Tags: Business, MIT Sloan, Pearson PLC, Wharton School, Wiki