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Saturday, Mar 19, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller

My brother Darian sent me this one.

Here’s my dad during Christmas in, we think, 1979. We were living in Germany then. Seven of us were crammed into a little government apartment at an American military base in Landstuhl, near the Army hospital, where many of our soldiers who are wounded in Iraq are now flown.

The closely confined nature of our existence strongly encouraged finding any possible way to get out of that home.

We moved to a house in Siefersheim after school ended 1980, which gave us more room. But because I was heading off to college at the end of the summer, my bed was under the basement stairs. Appropriate.

Check out the apron and the sideburns. LOL.

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Man busted for sending threatening e-mail

Saturday, Mar 19, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller

An Illinois man has been arrested for allegedly sending a threatening e-mail to Attorney General Lisa Madigan.

A Walnut man appeared in Bureau County court Thursday morning, after being arrested by the Illinois State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for threatening a public official.

Darryl W. Hanson, 50, allegedly sent an e-mail to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan on March 2, which threatened in part to “call in help from militia, media, skin heads and anybody else who is willing to kill bent officials. It is time for war.”

He is charged with two Class 3 felonies of threatening a public official, after he allegedly sent the e-mail from the Walnut Public Library.

According to Bureau County State’s Attorney Patrick Herrmann, at the time of his arrest, Hanson informed the Illinois State Police he did not mean any harm to Madigan or Gov. Rod Blagojevich, but he intended for the e-mail to harm local officials. […]

According to court records, Hanson has been in a dispute with the village of Walnut since 1995 concerning the keeping of refuse and abandoned cars on his property, a city ordinance violation.

And then there’s this from a different paper:

Recovered in the search were two shotguns, eight handguns, two pellet guns, one stun gun and one laser pointer, as well as more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition and a cassette tape with militia information on it.

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PodShanking

Saturday, Mar 19, 2005 - Posted by Rich Miller

Ever want to move music or other files from one iPod to another? Now you can. It’s called PodShanking, and it’s from the fine folks at ModGods.

Needed:

1) An Apple brand iPod to record to.

2) A short connector cable with 1/4″ headphone plugs on both ends.

3) Any MP3 player or audio source with a headphone […]

(and) this free software: PodZilla.

Go check it out.

(Via Cool Hunting.)

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