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Remember back in the early, crazy days of this war? I'mtalking those first few months after September 11, when Anthrax was getting mailed around the country, SpecOps was doing their thing in Afghanistan, the Warblogger movement was getting underway, and muppets were joining the Jihad?

Yeah, whatever happened to Evil Bert? I found myself chuckling at the memory of that weird chapter of 2001, and went looking for the original news photo that it all centered around. Guess what: I can't find it! The idea that this episode might slip from the ephemeral wasteland that is the Web's memory distresses me. The best I could do (with only an initial, cursory search, mind you) was the FoxNews article I already linked to.

Can anyone help me out, here?

UPDATE: I tried a little harder, and finally came up with this:

Interfacing Knowledge: New Paradigms for Computing in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences—"Perfect Transmissions: Evil Bert Laden" by Mark Poster

How is information that crosses cultures on the Internet interpreted once it is received? The engineer's understanding of perfect or noiseless transmissions is far different from the problem of inter-cultural communication. I take an example from the events surrounding Sept 11th.

This is an academic article, of all things, that examines how Evil Bert ended up on a poster used—in all seriousness—by pro-Bin Laden protestors Bangladesh.