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Just got this in email from a company I let email me:

It’s our BEST INDOOR CAMERA period! With a powerful 44X Zoom, you can zoom in up to a half mile away and see everything as if you were standing right there.

Plus, it comes equipped with StarLight Mode NightVision, so you can see at night! Use it to watch over your home, business, car and property 24 hours a day! You will be amazed at the NightVision - it makes the dimmest areas look like it’s broad daylight outside!

Yes, that’s right, X-10.com.

An “indoor” camera. So it can see half a mile away. Cool! and StarLight Mode NightVision to boot!

All of their security / surveillance cameras that I’ve checked can’t be used where I live; they say not to be operated below 32° F.

Nobody on my LiveJournal friends list has yet picked up on the articles (which started appearing yesterday) that doctors have detected evidence of a heart in Vice President Cheney.

A jury on Wednesday ordered an anti-gay Kansas church to pay $2.9 million in compensatory damages to relatives of a U.S. Marine after church members cheered his death at his funeral.

Since the Euro has just launched as a physical currency, I’ve looked at some of the web sites for pictures of the coins (and not finding them; neither the Guardian nor the official Euro site has photos I can find of any coin other than the 1 Euro). This got me thinking about the denominations the choose to make, and how they differ from ours in the US.

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Have you seen what they have done? There’s a presidential directive authorizing the trial of terrorist suspects by secret military tribunals, with no accountability and no review. (more…)