Blogdaughter Michele of Letters From New York City posted a well-reasearched piece on the significant numbers related to 9/11. Most of these I've never heard before.

Odd that the MSM considers them less important than the body count in Iraq, since some of these numbers are also trickling upwards.

However, I'm here to make a tangential point. One of the footnotes in Michele's post says:

Some of the information was culled from Wikipedia and the NY Times (which I will not link to as it requires membership and means being subjected to lots of spam mail for you and me).

I've mentioned this before, but it bears repeating. The NY Times registration spaminator (as well as other compulsory registration sites) can be bypassed by using BugMeNot.

This site provides usernames & passwords for sites that require FREE, compulsory registration (they WON'T hand you the keys to pay sites, so don't bother asking). Just paste the URL of your target site in the search box and click the "Get Logins" button. You'll be sent to a page with several possible combinations of usernames & passwords.

Also, if you have a login you'd like to share, you may submit it to BugMeNot.

Finally, I should mention that Firefox has an extension available that allows you to automatically retrieve a login from BugMeNot by right-clicking on a login box and selecting BugMeNot from the context menu. I have it, I've used it, and it works great.

So the next time you want to send folks to an article that requires registration, you can rest easy, knowing that they can use BugMeNot to get the information without the spam.

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Full auto Glock 9mm.

With twin drum magazine.

[via Frizzen Sparks, comment #6]

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1 Sweet! That could just about get me back to 9mm again... And,yes, it was good for me too...

Posted by: Laughing Wolf at March 29, 2007 10:16 AM (qRGD4)

2 Eh. It's still a glock. I'm one of the minority who are underwhelmed with the glock (give me a Colt 1911 any day), and a full auto handgun just seems like a quick way to waste ammo firing rounds over your target. Now these... these I could have waaaaay too much fun with

Posted by: Graumagus at March 29, 2007 10:43 AM (pjAgG)

3 Sadly enough Grau almost took what I was going to say word for word. Yea, it's neat, but not very accurate and more to the point, not good versus zombies. It does look neat, I just think I'd rather have something with some balls behind it, not just the sack.

Posted by: Contagion at March 29, 2007 04:44 PM (T4WRc)

4 Accurate or not, it seemed pretty stable with the attached stock. Hmmm, wonder if my Glock 23 can do this (it would kick the crap outta ya' though).

Posted by: TJ's Anti-contrarian Blog at March 31, 2007 07:13 PM (Luhuc)

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Contagion's gonna hate me for this.

Remember that fun little time-waster where you build towers to destroy creepy monsters as they shuffle their way through a small maze?

There's now a desktop version.

In the sense that the page it's on has a picture of the top of a desk as a background.

It's basically the same game as the other one, except that there's no maze. You have to make that yourself with the towers. Figuring out a good placement strategy should keep you busy for a little while.

[Hat tip: Shamus of Twenty-Sided]

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