Someone in China managed to get a classified ad published in commemoration of Tiananmen Square...because the clerk who took the ad had no idea that the 'victims' of 'June 4' meant anything special...because China has tried to make it an "un-incident" by banning all references to it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/wtMostRead/idUSHKG14616220070606

Hoist by their own petard, indeed.

Two Wired articles on technology and the response to 9/11:

Reinventing 911: describes various technologies that have been developed for handling distributed disaster response. Portland, OR residents take note. Interesting stuff.

Fear, Inc.: describes those cashing in on the post-9/11 panic.