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For anything but privacy, there's MasterCard

trondant — Thu, 02 Mar 2006 21:52:14 -0800

DHS monitors your credit card payments. (via)

"The Hazards of Private Spy Operations"

trondant — Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:14:53 -0800

The Pond is the history of a secret, independent US intelligence-gathering group which preceded (and outlasted) the OSS. Shuffled from Cabinet to Cabinet to the CIA, it eventually ran aground against the infighting of McCarthy's Red Scare hearings and was no more by 1955.

"We lost our whole squad that day,"

trondant — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 00:16:43 -0800

Echo Company An emotionally trying account of an ambush in Iraq this past April that took the lives of twelve Americans and who knows how many Iraqis, from two journalists who were there. Included is a timeline, audio & video, photogalleries, and reactions from the friends and family they left behind. You can read a USMC account of the memorial service here. via Editor & Publisher [Flash/Real]

Arf!

trondant — Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:36:44 -0800

Dog toy or marital aid? Take the test. You insert, you decide.
(NSFW unless you work at a kennel. Or a sex-toy shop. Via a friend.)

Jesus saves (on prescription drugs)

trondant — Fri, 04 Jun 2004 08:44:20 -0800

The Son of God has Prozac and Viagra on sale now. Why bother with know-it-all pharmacists when you can get prescription drugs from Jesus Himself? He even sells birth control for only $129.99 a month (loaves and fishes not included.) via The General

The DOJ invites Greenpeace to take a long walk off a short plank.

trondant — Thu, 13 May 2004 17:38:40 -0800

Shiver me illegally-harvested timbers! Why dust off a law used only twice, most recently 114 years ago? Because you have a grand jury and you can. The alleged sailor-mongerers have issued a statement on their website.

Coming soon to an EU near you

trondant — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:59:26 -0800

Visit sunny Molvanîa! The guidebook is here. Just don't mix them up with Moldavia. They hate that.

Practice makes perfetta

trondant — Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:50:20 -0800

Simulatore di Orgasmi
Italian Orgasm Simulator. NSFW. Flash.

''It was not a fraternity-sanctioned event.''

trondant — Thu, 25 Dec 2003 07:26:31 -0800

Michael Bloomberg and Woodrow Wilson must be proud. The Holiday dinner meets double-secret probation. Be afraid - very afraid.

"Fickt nicht mit der Raketemensch!"

trondant — Sun, 14 Dec 2003 22:28:13 -0800

A Flash-heavy "Illustrated Complete Summary of Gravity's Rainbow". Includes an Episode Guide and a gallery of related art. See also the Wikipedia entry if you want some background, including a link to an online concordance.