Real-life repo men

Well, after posting about the upcoming movie Repo Men yesterday, it was pointed out that there's a real-life manhunt underway as a promotion for the movie. Four real-life "runners" are being chased online and on location by "repo men" and this whole thing is coordinated by Wired. After pulling the same thing off with their own journalist Evan Ratliff last year, they probably thought, hey, why not do the same thing, with four persons, and as a movie tie-in!

(Thanks, poster jessie!)

Repo Men Database

Wired re-read

Great idea: new blog takes old issues of Wired and re-interprets them from the standpoint of today. Mostly focused on old-school ads (such as pictured above), but all articles so far have been pretty interesting.

Wired Reread

Perimetr

Wired magazine run an extremely interesting article about the Russian doomsday device called Perimeter (or Perimetr). It's a system that's designed to launch a nuclear strike back at the enemy even if there's no one left to actually start the missiles. Autonomous ground sensors would record the devastating blow of a nuclear attack and retaliate automatically.

Wired.com: Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine

UPDATE: I found another, similar article in Slate from 2007 which goes even more in-depth about the system, called Perimetr here. Even more interesting are the references to Dr Bruce Blair's Nuclear Recollections, more of which I will be posting soon.

Did the Soviets really build a "doomsday machine"? - By Ron Rosenbaum - Slate Magazine