The Haunted Palace

They’re known as “People Embarrassing the Tidewater Area”, and this is why: http://tinyurl.com/64k8gg #

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God bless him.

Enjoy, won’t you, Dateline’s To Catch a Predator, New Jersey: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

Thank you, gegan249.

If you’re interested in reading any unexpurgated chat logs, simply search by screen name at perverted-justice.com (only recommended for adults, honestly).

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Andy Dick, the winner for Creepiest Mug Shot Ever category: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0716082andydick1.html. #

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ma.gnolia/carla

Macworld | Playlist | About iTunes library files — "We constantly tell you to back up your iTunes Library and iTunes Music Library.xml files when mucking with your iTunes library, but what are these things?" The Dominick Dunne Treasury: Entertainment & Culture: vanityfair.com — Like any great serial, Dominick Dunne’s diary works best when you know [...]

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The ex-CEO of American Airlines says that the government should stop pricing abuses by airline companies. Hear, hear. The fare schedule, such as it is, is obscene. In order to stem the tide of child pornography, ISPs Verizon, Sprint, and Time Warner Cable will be blocking access to [...]

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ma.gnolia: Print Free Graph Paper http://tinyurl.com/5wvmux # ma.gnolia: Free Vector World Maps Collection http://tinyurl.com/6bcphh # Flickr: Mother and children http://tinyurl.com/65dsw4 # Flickr: Close-up: Young mother http://tinyurl.com/5h6jsd # norfolk.gov has a form to be used for reporting prostitution. Um, our [...]

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Larry and I hit the main library branch today; the list of checked-out books give a nice illustration of our mindspace, methinks:

The Museum of Hoaxes * Alex Roese The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics * R. P. T. Davenport-Hines Electric Motors * [...]

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Reason No. 545981945 I’m glad we’re moving: Results for registered offenders, searching by address:

Our current house = 577 Offenders, 105 Non-Mappable Offenders Our new home = 2 Offenders, 0 Non-Mappable Offenders

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Twenty-four days after she disappeared, nine-year-old Shannon Matthews has been found alive. The thirty-nine-year-old who lived at the house where she was discovered is in custody.

That’s stellar police work, and the Dewesbury force should feel very proud. These policemen eschewed the common understanding that people who are missing for longer than x period of time [...]

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