Eric Scheske

From Chicago [http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-02-14-chicago-cameras_x.htm]: > Surveillance cameras – aimed at government buildings, train platforms and intersections here – might soon be required at corner taverns and swanky nightclubs. > Mayor Richard Daley wants to require bars open until 4 a.

A lamp that plays the 9/11 attack [http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=108]. A bit morbid, if you ask me.

> The US military has funded a computer game to teach its troops how to use and decipher Iraqi body language. > The purpose is to teach soldiers that using the wrong gestures can potentially cause offence and escalate already tense situations. Link [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/

> Iran's hardline spiritual leaders have issued an unprecedented new fatwa, or holy order, sanctioning the use of atomic weapons against its enemies. > In yet another sign of Teheran's stiffening resolve on the nuclear issue, influential Muslim clerics have for the first time questioned the

> Fellow conservative religious leaders have expressed concern and even open criticism over Pat Robertson's habit of shooting from the hip on his daily religious news-and-talk television program, "The 700 Club." [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060218/ap_on_re_us/robertson_s_