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An automated global interception and relay system operated by the intelligence agencies in five nations

Crushing all the little farmers.

Two British adventurers accomplished what seems impossible. They ran seven marathons in seven days on six continents, finishing up in New York on Sunday. Sir Ranulph Fiennes and longtime expedition partner Mike Stroud crossed the New York City Marathon finish line in 5 hours, 25 minutes, 46 seconds, ending their weeklong journey. Read More : Britons run 7 marathons in 7 days

Out of service Concorde will never fly again.

Pete Best, born Randolph Peter Best in Madras, India on November 24, 1941, joined the Beatles, John, Paul, George, and Stu Sutcliffe, in late 1960. Read More : Pete Best Portfolio Now this is something I’ve never known about The Beatles. I guess you learn something new every day..

Been busy this week, again. Here’s some more links for the weekend. Be ready to shell out at least $120,000 on this shower it has 19 heads each with their own pressure and temperature controls. I WANT ONE! Electronic Paper may be in the near future. The 52 Most Dangerous American Dignitaries – The Bush Regime Card Deck. You can download a PDF of the deck Online! ...

Just like in the movies, someone is finally releasing one! and its only｣150,000! Time to start saving.

SWAT Hand Signals – Pretty funny. So called good worm starts to turn : A good worm that goes around patching your windows XP and deleting itself. Crazy. Don’t know if it’s true or not. The Daily Times states that blonde jokes will be made illegal in Bosnia. currentenergy.lbl.gov is a cool place to view the current energy stats of the nation. Yo, GOD! is selling God Detectors. Spot the Devil – Attorney General John Ashcroft believes calico cats are a sign of the devil. ...

The Blackout is a blog someone has created to post all the pictures of NY while on blackout. Pretty crazy to see thousands of people walking across the Brooklyn Bridge. Guess I should add that all the pictures were sent in via SMS from cell phones. Over at The Gothamist, they have posted a lot of great pictures.

Interesting site on distribution of wealth. Imagine the population of the United States stretched across a football field in order of income, from poorest to richest. Now imagine a stack of $100 bills representing each person’s income. (A 1-inch stack of $100 bills is $25,000.) The red line represents the heights of those stacks compared to a football field. I call this graph the “L-Curve.” Read More : The L-Curve