Odds ‘n Sods:

Reader Ben L. mentioned that the August issue of Popular Mechanics magazine is dedicated to theme of “Survive Anything!”

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There is another RWVA Appleseed high power rifle match and clinic scheduled for August 18th and 19th in Ottawa, Illinois. Don’t miss out on this training opportunity. The offer, great rifle training at a very reasonable price!

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While wandering that wacky world of Wikipedia, I was looking at the Wiki page for The Sarah Connor Chronicles (SCC) television series, trying to figure out why the link to the SCC Yahoo Discussion Groups Page keeps getting deleted. (I have a friend in Afghanistan who has posted the link on the Wiki page twice, and each time it has been zapped after just a few days. ) So I clicked on the “Talk” page, and found that there was an argument raging as whether or not it is wiki-ethical to mention the download availability of the entire pilot episode for the series, in the P2P “Torrent” underworld. So is I did a little searching with Scroogle, and found the source. Wow, it is still five months before the SCC pilot ever even airs and this video is very popular. People must be very anxious to see this show! My friend The Chartist Gnome (who in addition to his market watching does a lot of sci-fi watching) told me that the Azureus Magnet Link at MiniNova for this download works just fine.

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FOREX-Dollar hits record low vs euro, subprime weighs