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If you're on Twitter, set your location to Tehran & your time zone to GMT +3.30. Iranian security forces are hunting for bloggers using location/timezone searches. The more people at this location, the more of a logjam it creates for forces trying to shut down Iranians' access to the internet. Cut & paste & pass it on.

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Happy birthday to fortysevenbteg. May his video game purchases match their hype...

The Man Who Would Be King

Sean Connery and Michael Caine are ex-soldiers in HMRA and a pair of lovable rogues as were ever too quick to be hung. And so the two decide to go forth and conquer the small Asian country of Khasitan. Sure its just the two of them and they don't speak the local lingo and they've got to cross hostile Afghanistan and brutal, frozen peaks. But Alexander the Great did it once. And if some ponce Greek can do it then it shouldn't be any job at all for a pair of men who served in the Regiments...