Archive for December 26th, 2011

The street finds its own uses for things.

Monday, December 26th, 2011

The radio signal travels deep into the arid countryside, hours by foot from the nearest road. There, the 8-foot-tall (2-meter-tall) dark-green branches of the rockrose bush conceal a radio tower painted to match. A cable buried in the dirt draws power from a solar panel. A signal-boosting repeater relays the message along a network of powerful antennas and other repeaters that stretch hundreds of miles (kilometers) across Mexico, a shadow communications system allowing the cartel to coordinate drug deliveries, kidnapping, extortion and other crimes with the immediacy and precision of a modern military or law-enforcement agency.

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Things that say “Christmas” (part 1 of an ongoing series).

Monday, December 26th, 2011

Lord of the Rings PEZ dispensers

More Christmas related stuff later, maybe.

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