That’s right, a video camera that attaches to a gun so you can post videos on YouTube of all the people you’ve blown away. There’s a sample video to get people interested.
Apparently they’ve been developed to aid police accountability in the US (a good thing), but surely it’s just a matter of time before they’re available commercially (an insane thing).
[Via BoingBoing and Wired]
A fairly predictable one, this. In a recent article in the Times, voters were told on arriving at a polling station in Chengutu that ‘if there is one MDC vote they will find that person and cut off his or her head.’
But wait, there’s more. In a recent statement on the South African government website, it’s noted that President Thabo Mbeki has been the target of some kind of media smear campaign, the poor dear. Apparently:
This year, as in the previous year, it appears as though there exists a disinformation campaign whereby all manner of fabrications are fed to the media.
What fabrications? Quoted in the same statement, the assertion that Mbeki and his goverment have ‘been secretly working to remove [President Robert Mugabe] from power’ through ‘lobbying for sustained international pressure to bear on the Mugabe regime’. Tut tut, what a horrible thing to say about someone.