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Dave Snowden
March 18, 2008
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My ironic reference yesterday to Kim’s attempt to scare us with the various ways the world can come to a catastrophic end had produced a response. Given her well known antipathy to surveillance systems (which we have debated through the comments section on her blog) I suggested that the treat of global destruction might imply a need for a surveillance system. Today she sent this picture as a gift – check out LOLCats on her site.

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