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April 4, 2006

Wee hours clocks: 01:23 04-05-06; Hendrix '70; Forbes' Best Travel Sites; Soulclipse photo updates; To Bloggers from Borders

Too tired to tell you why I'm so busy. Just a few links before I crash...

Imminent: 01:23 04-05-06. AP.

At 1:02 a.m. and three seconds on Wednesday, April 5, 2006, it will be the first hour of the day, the second minute of the hour, the third second of that precious minute in the fourth month of the fifth year of ... uh oh. It's not really the sixth year.

It's actually 2006 — only in our shorthand is it '06.

Hendrix mp3: Band of Gypsys :: New Year's Eve 1970. Who Knows.

Urge for going: Forbes' Best Travel Sites. A deliberately quirky collection.

To Bloggers from Borders: An Open Letter from Gregory P Josefowicz CEO/Chairman of the Board/President/Director, Borders Books to Charles Johnson, Director, Pajamas Media, CEO Little Green Foosballs, Rock 'N' Roller in the Free World, Stealth Cyclist.

Here's the punchline:

Like I said, I run a bookstore not an army. You bloggers want the Muslim idiots brought under control so that Free Speech takes place everywhere and not just in the magazine section at Borders? Tell it to the Marines.

Soulclipse update: www.soulclipse.com Photo Updates Photos and video of the solar eclipse bash in Turkey from returning festival-goers. No idea what lurks behind most of these links, but what I saw looked classic -- dancing in the sun, costumes, sunburns. (Earlier: Eclipse day post.)

Bonus link: Massachusetts Sets Health Plan for Nearly All. NYT. Somebody had to start it. Good for the neighbors:

Massachusetts is poised to become the first state to provide nearly universal health care coverage with a bill passed overwhelmingly by the legislature Tuesday that Gov. Mitt Romney says he will sign....

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