Catch the Land Mine !! Win a free prosthetic device !!

Yes, the sight of a dancing land mine, aping the movements of web ads like "Shock the Monkey and win $20 !" is meant to be chilling. The land mine situation in countries like Cambodia is anything but laughable, and anything but not of the moment - to whit: U.S. Set to Use Mines in Iraq Stockpiles Certain to Reopen Debate December 11, 2002 By Tom Squitieri, USA TODAY WASHINGTON ‹ The Pentagon is preparing to use anti-personnel land mines in a war with Iraq, despite U.S. policy that calls for the military to stop using the mines everywhere in the world except Korea by 2003. To prepare for a possible war with Baghdad, the Pentagon has stockpiled land mines at U.S. bases in countries ringing Iraq, according to Pentagon records. The decision to make the mines available comes despite a recent report by the General Accounting Office, Congress' investigative arm, concluding that their use in the 1991 Gulf War impeded U.S. forces while doing nothing to impair Iraqi forces. As the Web becomes a place increasingly dominated by frivolous lottery games and the shallow 'interpretive' news sites which media conglomerates think will attract more readers, a committed group of people continue to use the Internet along lines much more in keeping with a medium that can raise global consciousness. Groups like Clearlandmines.com and the many other non-profit groups from which the research for this site came should be applauded for their continuing efforts to use a global communication medium to foster humanitarian projects. For those of you who like to know when you've 'finished' a random access work like this one, the following information will be of interest. The 'game' offers ten possible 'winning' responses, which randomly link back to ten screens of visual/text information. At times you may feel caught in a loop. This is not unintentional. Jennifer Ley is the editor of Riding the Meridian and a literary web artist. Her first project about mines in Cambodia, Ex[re]pression -- Who Speaks for the People, was published by Sunbrella.net, and will be published later this year by the web cd/rom magazine, DOC(K)S. This piece was premiered at E-Poetry 2001, and has been published by the online magazine, BeeHive. To find out what Cambodian women are doing to affect social change in their country, visit The Women's Media Centre of Cambodia.

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