Saturday, January 28, 2006

History at your fingertips

With January 2006 and Chirac's announcement of a change in French nuclear policy, i.e. to reserve the right of first strike, the world has changed quite a bit since the times of the Iraq war. (As one column from Die Zeit put it, belligerent Chirac now looks a lot like Bush did three years ago. Unfortunately, Bush now looks like Chirac did back then.)

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In any case, if you want to stage that cultural and political showdown on your desktop, one of your options might be to get yourself an NDI Polaris localizer camera and ask me for a copy of this program, which allows you to motion capture a Star Wars Light Sabre fight between those two titans of politics: