hal, i read stuff like that and my heart palpitates.
here is a little known fact.
PEOPLE LIE!
these guys were probably trying to raise funding for development. No guarantee of success, but they could get funding and have a sweet job for a few years.
There was a story out maybe ten or more years ago, california, of course, a company that did laser engraving and a state senator started campaigning for laser engraved serial numbers to be put on every bullet and every casing, and each and every one of those bullets be registered to a box and that numbered box was to be registered to the buyer. No ammunition was to be sold in california that wasn't individually registered. I don't think that I have ever heard anything quite that stupid, but you know, millions of people believed that it would work.
First off, the jackoffs at the business were trolling for funding. The politician was wanting publicity, notoriety, his name in the paper. He was wanting to hit the nra in the nads, because while the politician had no need to pay for anything, publicity, time, resources all paid for (by taxpayers), the NRA had to spend money defending their position. Win-win.
This one is epic. You could go down the rabbit hole with this one, digging through names, maps, page source code, and go lots of places with this, and it really is a rabbit hole. The page is fake, people fell for it, the page's maker laughed himself sick, and a bunch of people were made to look like morons. I just can't imagine that the site itself is still being paid for and maintained.
http://www.seasonshot.com/home.cfm