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I remember a while back when this story first came out. It seems to be making the rounds again. Too freaking funny.

One contractor marvelled that the coin didnt seem to have a power source, but was filled with some sort of “nano-technology.”

Another wondered how those things got into his pockets after he had put his loose change in a secure plastic bag.

“And you wonder why our war effort isnt going too well,” said John Pike, a security and military analyst at GlobalSecurity.org.

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British airline tycoon Richard Branson announced a $25-million prize for the first person or group to find a way to remove billions of tonnes of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere…
The contest, called the Virgin Earth Challenge, will be open for five years, with a panel of judges including Branson and Gore evaluating submissions.

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A special undercover investigation by the CBC… has exposed major problems with security at some of Canada’s airports…

“It’s what I call the illusion of security,” says a passenger screener.

The Fifth Estate‘s program on airport security airs Wed. (Nov. 9th) at 9 p.m. on CBC.

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So this is the second time I’ve read a clarification posting that Newsgator, the RSS agregation company, is not, in fact, the reviled spyware company ‘Gator’. Apparently people don’t seem to get that just because a business name contains, in part, the name of another business, they’re not actually the same business. Shocking.

From Nick Bradbury’s blog posting:

Shortly after I announced that NewsGator had acquired my company, I started seeing comments from people wondering whether NewsGator was related to the “Gator” spyware company (now known as “Claria”). The answer, of course, is NO (you don’t really think I’d join a spyware company, do you?).

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