Hello Swindon, Goodbye Kitty

Posted by toj8j@alumni.virginia.edu, 11/8/01 at 8:37:06 AM.

A couple of links this morning, some good, some bad, some just scary.

My friend John Vick, with whom I sang in the Virginia Glee Club and who was a housemate for a while back in Virginia, continues to do good things with his band Hello Swindon. They have a webcast today via Knot Radio from 10 to midnight Eastern time. Check it out.

There's a pretty good Vladimir Nabokov web site that I just discovered yesterday called zembla. Lots of stuff about Nabokov and his works. Check it out. Now. :)

Finally, the scary-funny one. Seems that in the 1960s, the CIA was bugging kitties so that they could eavesdrop on the Soviets. My favorite part: "They found he would walk off the job when he got hungry, so they put another wire in to override that." Of course this wouldn't be a funny Cold War story without a really bad first test of the technology...

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