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US Military Buildup in Paraguay? More Info
Here’s an interesting — if alarmist* — assessment of a potential US military buildup in Paraguay.
(*I mean, c’mon, it’s not like our government has a history of meddling in Latin American affairs or anything.)
(Via Sploid.)
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Fictional Road Maps
“Hey, man, whaddya do in your spare time?”
“Funny you should ask. I create extremely elaborate fictional road maps.”
To all you gearheads out there who’re in search of a faster way to skip through the ads during The OC: Jack W. sends along this promising TiVo hack.
Congrats to Brit and K-Fed on their bundle of joy. In a newley.com exclusive, I’m hereby sharing with you the first photo released of Baby Spears-Federline. Ain’t he cute?
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DCist B-day at Stetson’s Tonight
DC folks: I’ll be at the DCist’s first birthday party at Stetson’s tonight. Will probably arrive sometime after 7. Wendy H. and a few others will also be in attendance. Everyone’s invited, even if you don’t know who/what DCist is (I hear it’s some sort of…blob?).
Someone needs to make this happen immediately. And who knew Vin Deisel was a D&D dork?
