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"
