Friday, August 29, 2003

Cards Anyone?

In response to the US military's now infamous "Iraq's Most Wanted" deck of
playing cards, there has been an outbreak of 'card deck mania'.  Here's a
sampling of recent offerings.

1. Greenpeace Nuclear Playing Cards
   <http://act.greenpeace.org/col/get?i=770&sk=std2&la=en>
   Play Nuclear Solitaire Game  [Flash]
   <http://archive.greenpeace.org/cards/game.html>
   "Blair is ace of diamonds on Greenpeace cards"
   <http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_775938.html>

2. Operation: Hidden Agenda
   <http://www.operationhiddenagenda.com/>
   "Teacher sells Hidden Agenda cards"
   <http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2003/07/15/136367-ap.html>

3. 'America's Least Wanted' Deck
   <http://tvnewslies.org/html/the_loaded_deck.html>

4. War Profiteers Card Deck
   <http://www.warprofiteers.com/>

5. Bush Regime Playing Cards
   <http://www.rasken.kajen.com/USD/The_US_Deck.html>

6. The Deck of Weasels
   <http://www.newsmaxstore.com/nms/showdetl.cfm?&DID=6&Product_ID=1304&af_id=38>
   "Weasel words"
   <http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,957683,00.html>
The unrighteous Right strikes back

7. California Governor Candidate Deck of Cards
   <http://www.brokennewz.com/reports/govcards/index.asp>

8. The Stacked Deck - Corporate America's Least Wanted
   <http://www.thestackeddeck.com/>

9. "52 cards weed out Australia's 'most wanted'"
   <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s922685.htm>


For information on the history of playing cards and examples of more
traditional decks of playing cards from around the world, check out
the following links.

1. Elliott Avedon Museum: Playing Cards
   <http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~museum/vexhibit/plcards/plcards.html>

2. World of Playing Cards
   <http://www.wopc.co.uk/>

3. The Bob Lancaster Gallery of Unusual Playing Cards!
   <http://members.aol.com/rslancastr/blgupc/blgupc.htm>
"A celebration of playing cards, especially those with non-standard Jacks,
 Queens and Kings"