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"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 4.14.2003 ::
:: "The Buddy Hackett of international diplomacy" ::
From Wired:
Wacky Iraqi Minister a Web Star
Iraq's irrepressible Information Minister is fast becoming a major cyber-celebrity on the Web, thanks to what fans see as his great sense of gallows humor.
In the last few days, the official mouthpiece of the Iraqi regime, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, has become the subject of fan sites, spoof weblogs, petitions to get him a TV show and merchandise like coffee mugs and T-Shirts.
Al-Sahaf's patently absurd claims about the course of the war, his florid insults against U.S.-led forces and the fact that he appeared to be about to bust out in laughter -- all have been recognized by many as signs that the minister was enjoying an outrageous private joke.
"I was just crying laughing," said Jim Jonas about al-Sahaf's daily press briefings from Baghdad. "It was incredible how he could keep a straight face through this stuff. He could come up with some incredible invective."
ALSO from Wired:
The Race Back to the Moon
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