Monday, April 5, 2004

Bryan Berg, Cardstacker / More Decks of Cards

1. Bryan Berg, Cardstacker
   <http://www.cardstacker.com/>

Meet Bryan Berg, who "broke the Guinness World Record for card structures
in 1992 at the age of seventeen with a tower fourteen feet, six inches tall"

Check out the Cardstacker Gallery:
   <http://www.cardstacker.com/gallery.html>
   <http://www.cardstacker.com/gallery2.html>


2. It seems everyone and their four-legged friend is coming out with their
   own "deck of cards"
 * "Political lesson in the cards"  [Russia]
   <http://www.times.spb.ru/archive/times/904/top/t_10421.htm>
"A game of cards can now become a quick lesson of who's who in Washington
 with the release of a new deck that looks an awful lot like the United
 States' own deck of most-wanted Iraqi leaders"

 * "Rumsfeld is ace of spades in French deck of cards"
   <http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/26/1064083193545.html>
"US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is the Ace of Spades and al-Qaeda
 chief Osama bin Laden a Joker in a provocative pack of French playing
 cards depicting 'the 52 most dangerous American officials'"

 * "Inside Hamas"
   <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040405-605511-1,00.html>
"the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv printed a deck of cards showing 34 Hamas
 leaders targeted for assassination"

 * "Newt's playing cards publishes deck of cards in support of President Bush"
   <http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/3/emw112830.htm>

 * carol's quips: "My 'hit list' deck of cards"
   <http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2256&dept_id=457704
       &newsid=11133709&PAG=461&rfi=9>