RED MEANS KABOOM

Woo, this is pretty awesome: Landmine-sniffing plants!

weather report

From the 0xdeadbeef mailing list:

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Forwarded-by: From: Kent Fuka
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Compled from NASA and terrestrial weather reports:

Temperature at 1 p.m., Jan. 14


	Location                   Fahrenheit
	-------------------------  ----------
	Gusev crater, Mars             12
	Providence, R.I.                9
	Scranton Wilkes-Barre, Pa.      8
	Hartford, Conn.                 7
	Buffalo, N.Y.                   7
	Rochester, N.Y.                 3
	Ithaca, N.Y.                    3
	Albany, N.Y.                   -2
	Binghamton, N.Y.               -2
	Concord, N.H.                  -3
	Syracuse, N.Y.                 -4
	Burlington, Vt.               -10
	Montpelier, Vt.               -12
	Caribou, Maine                -13
	Mount Washington, N.H.        -36

curious shopping note

Superquinn cucumbers are marked as an Irish product, while Superquinn half cucumbers are not. Evidently they ship them overseas in order to cut them in half and wrap 'em in film.

woohoo, sort of.

Bertie Ahern, our Glorious Leader, has directed ComReg to introduce competition on line rentals by March. Yay, sort of.

update: whoops, wrong Ahern. I was wondering why Bertie'd be talking about telecomms.