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Fascinating use of open source & cheap hardware.  They’ve truly created a monster.  How the Wayback Machine Works [Slashdot]

This is stupid.  I just want to point out that I hate Legislators, Politicians, and others who want to control my life.  ACK!  California’s “Wireless-Free” Zone [Slashdot]

Gimme.  Pub-detector watch. How about this for the best ever use of technology? A watch that knows where the four nearest pubs are? [kuro5hin.org]

As Usual, Salon Produces Quality Content.  Sex without rules. Call it what you will, our version of polyamory is both freeing and anxiety-producing. [Salon.com]

Cool.  I gotta get this…  Mark Paschal: Stapler 1.7.0 is a Radio 8 tool that “creates web syndication feeds from web sites. These feeds can be used with Radio UserLand’s News Aggregator, or other XML syndication software. Flexible scripts for scraping with CSS-like selectors and regular expressions are included as well as several special purpose scrapers, but Stapler is expandable with your own scraping scripts written in Radio’s UserTalk language.”  [Scripting News]

Requiem.  Kmart’s woes mount as suppliers fret:  Kmart Corp.âs woes deepened Monday as its sole grocery supplier, Fleming Cos., suspended shipments to the troubled retailer after Kmart failed to make a regular weekly payment for deliveries of food and other goods. In addition, Scotts Co., a maker of lawn and garden products, also said it had halted shipments to the No. 2 U.S. discount retailer. [MSNBC]

I hope it’s true!  I hope I hope….  No Red Hat-AOL Merger In The Works, Says CNET [Slashdot]