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Friday, January 03, 2003
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Kel-Tec.
Kel-Tec is advertising a new 5.56mm Sport Utility Rifle. 5 lbs,
37" long open, 26" long folded, 18" barrel, integrated Picatinny rail,
forend folds down to form a bipod, stock can store spare magazines,
uses the M-16 breech locking and feeding system. Don't know if it uses
standard M-16 mags, but given the design of their Sub2000 rifles, I'll
be surprised if it doesn't. Couldn't find any references to it on the
web, so I scanned the ad from p. 37 of the February 2003 issue of
Guns & Ammo magazine. No idea of price or availability, but I
want one. I added Kel-Tec to my Arms Manufacturers page.
[End the War on Freedom]
This is a promising design. I found that M-16 variants (and most other rifles) don't work for me because they're too heavy, but at 5 lbs. this is even lighter than my "Steyr Scout". It also shows some Steyr Scout influence in the integral bipod and spare magazine in the stock. From the picture it looks like the scope rail is too far back for a "Scout" style forward-mounted scope, and the caliber is too light for a scout rifle, but the folding design is interesting. I get the impression this would be good as a pilot's survival gun.
There's nothing about it on the company web site, and I don't know anything about Kel-Tec. Still, I'll be looking for reviews with great interest, and if this rifle turns out to be well-made I might well buy one.
9:49:59 AM 
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Total Information Awareness. NY Times : Many Tools of Big Brother are up and running The early version of the Total Information Awareness system employs a commercial software collaboration program called Groove. It was developed in 2000 by Ray Ozzie, a well-known software designer who is the inventor of Lotus Notes. Groove makes it possible for analysts at many different government agencies to share intelligence data instantly, and it links specialized programs that are designed to look for patterns of suspicious behavior. [Jeroen Bekkers' Groove Weblog]
Why would someone involved in Groove want to point this out? It's hardly the kind of story which leads me to look favorably on Groove as a product or company!
9:10:09 AM
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The Wahhabi Fifth Column. Here's a disturbing article about the Saudi entity's intensive efforts to instill a Wahhabi fifth column in the United States -- to which end they have spent more than $80 ... [little green footballs] [Counterpoint]
Equally disturbing are the comments on this post, which demonstrate that there are plenty of (no doubt Christian) Americans who are every bit as despicably bigotted as the Wahhabiya.
9:07:04 AM
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I just spent about an hour trawling through the source for MacBird and came across this document that explains something called the Interactive Object Architecture. It never went anywhere, but it's good. MacBird is a frustration to me. It seems it should have gone somewhere. Oh well, onward. [Scripting News]
I used (or tried to use) MacBird quite a bit. It didn't go anywhere because the editor app for creating MacBird cards was very crashprone, there was little documentation, and when Frontier 5 came out a series of undocumented changes broke existing cards.
8:52:21 AM
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UK: More guns on the street. The death of two teenage girls in a hail of bullets at a New Year party highlights the growing gun culture pervading British cities.
Gunmen are getting younger - and so are their victims - with weapons available for less than the price of a pair of designer trainers.
Detectives complain of a descent into US-style violence and say that guns are increasingly seen as a status symbol, even as a fashion accessory, among teenagers.
In London, police seize more than 140 guns a month and they have found weapons including AK47s and M16s. [FirearmNews.com]
I guess the detectives haven't been keeping up on the news--Britain has way more violent crime than the US nowdays. I've added this article to the "Gun-free Britain" page.
8:50:40 AM
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