One Nation, Under Mars

The top article on Tom Tomorrow’s site today cites a story in The Australian which is asking for an investigation into the gruesome photos and captions shown on the Web site undermars.com.

Late last week, when the subject came up in a diary on DailyKos, I poked around at the WHOIS service of my favorite domain registrar, Dotster (although just about any of them works just fine).

The undermars.com domain is registered to a Shannon Larratt, living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The record for the site’s administrative contact lists Larratt’s email address at the domain bmezine.com.

The bmezine.com site is dedicated to information and photos — many of them quite graphic — of piercing, tattoos, scarification, and body modification. Its home page sports a small “War is murder” emblem.