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Green Berets get new $25K a piece grenade launchers for use in Afghanistan - Cnet

See one in action here. (Gizmodo)

The Narrows of the Hassayampa - Front Porch Republic (Jeremy Beer)

The soul restoring qualities of the Arizona wilderness area.

Paranoia alert: Your copier is doing more than just copying - Lewrockwell.com

"...[E]very copier built after 2002 has a hard drive that stores a record of every single piece of paper copied on the machine." And that data is just sitting there like a gold mine for cops, lawyers, crooks, and snoops of all kinds to get their hands on.

Soon your boss/supervisor could be software - New Scientist

How demeaning is that? Very.

Revelation: Gabriel Garcia Marquez has discovered that Cuba is a totalitarian state and the Castro bothers are tyrants! - NY Review of Books

And so GGM refuses to publish his Castro biography because it might well be used to criticize Fidel and the regime. Sheesh.

What's a good walking shoe for people with knee problems? - Outdoors (The Gear Guy)