On 6/29/07, Bruce Sterling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Biographies of the best-known martyrs are sometimes lavish affairs, > Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, the most famous jihadist to have died in > Iraq, was the subject of a downloadable "encyclopedia" that includes > not on numerous materials on the Jordanian militant's life, but > also a complete collection of his statements, essays on his beliefs > and influence, and statements on the jihad in Iraq by Osama bin > Laden. Formatted as a 7.7-megabyte self-contained mini-browser, > the "encyclopedia" provides users with a table of contents and a > conventient graphics interface. >
Man, I wonder who's the audience for something like this? Do we have millions of desert jihadists with hundred-dollar laptops downloading this fat bit of ebook? Our was it created hoping to win the hearts and minds of young urban professional jihadists (yupjies)? ~ Jon -- Jon Lebkowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] Polycot Associates http://polycot.com http://weblogsky.com # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
