Swine Flu Survival

The F-Secure Lab is tracking search trends and opportunists on the Internet related to Swine Flu. 146 domains registered just over this past weekend.

They recommend reading Dread: How Fear and Fantasy have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to the Avian Flu by Philip Alcabes

Meanwhile, the EU has warned travelers to avoid the US and Mexico:

The European Union’s health chief urged people on Monday to avoid travelling to Mexico or the United States as the first suspected cases of swine flu were reported in Europe, heightening fears of a pandemic. The disease has killed 103 people in Mexico and spread to the US.

Havel in a Nutshell

A new song by Petr Putna, performed with Ondrej Havlik (three time national beatbox champion) at the Vaclav Havel Library opening.

The Prague Daily Monitor has more info:

“The song’s story corresponds to the content of the exhibition that divides Havel’s life into four periods – his capitalist extract, theatre, and his roles of a dissident and president. Of course, I didn’t want to create an ode or a monumental song, but to sum up with humour and in slight hyperbole the life of one of the most important personalities of the Czech history of the 20th century,” Putna says on www.vaclavhavel-knihovna.org.