These net outages in the Middle East

Four, or maybe five undersea communications cables have ceased working - been cut or shut down due to a power barf.  Nobody's sure who did what.  Early theories about anchor-dragging boats are now being denied, Iran is in a little net black hole, and the USS Jimmy Carter (the cable "maintenance" ship) is in the area.  Sober speculators and paranoid nuts alike are fizzing with ideas as to who, what and why.  Tinfoil beanies are go!

I know who dunnit.  It's obvious really: deep undersea action, a sense of paranoia, building yet unplaceable dread?

Ia! Ia! Cthulhu fhtagn!  Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Ia!

This Is Triviaaaaaaa!

Wow.  Ray Nelson, the guy who wrote the story which ended up as They Live, invented the propellor beanie. 

You know, they're pretty iconic.  Bright-eyed innocent techno-hopefulness.  Whatever happened to that?  (Yeah, I know, the Challenger disaster).

The world needs shiny optimism more than ever.  I hereby propose that, in accordance with the "Hope" motif, Obama gets on-side and sports one.  Not a propellor, of course, that's way too low-tech.  We need Obama in a vectored-thrust turboject beanie.  Possibly a Scaled Composites carbon-fibre vectored-thrust turbojet beanie.

How strong is your photoshop-fu?  :)