Odds ‘n Sods:

For those that like CraigsList, Matt M. mentioned a tool called Search Tempest that automagically searches all of the Craigslist sites at once, using definable radius of your location. I use it to quickly find unusual items that are within a four hour drive.

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England’s descent into national suicidal oblivion begins in its courtrooms: ‘Squatters aren’t criminals and can be GOOD for society’: Judge orders council to publish list of empty homes in its area.

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USAPrepares.com is sponsoring a Preparedness Expo this coming this Friday and Saturday (September 9th and 10th) in Springfield, Missouri. They will have many exhibitors, more than 50 free seminars, and nationally-known guest speakers including author and lecturer Bill Federer of “The American Minute”.

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Get ready for a wild ride: March 11, 2011: Japanese tsunami from the point of view of a car interior.

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The rumored 2011 release date for the re-make of Red Dawn has come and gone. Even though the movie cost $75 million to produce and is fully ready for release (following a change of villains, in post-production), I wouldn’t be surprised to see that the movie is never released. Permanently spiking the film would kowtow to assuage the production company’s new (ahem) “overseas financiers”. Yes, it might go down in history as the biggest film ever made that was never released.