Ho John Lee’s Weblog

• Big buyers of gold slip under radar - Business - Business - smh.com.au
  Long term funds and investors are accumulating larger gold allocation than previously thought, independent of short term speculators.
  (tags: gold metals investment finance)
• The Joplin Globe, Joplin, MO - Wal-Mart’s data center remains mystery - May 28, 2006
  About Wal-Mart’s 125000 sq ft data center in Jane, Missouri.
  (tags: walmart privacy retail database business security culture)
• The Boy Who Heard Music
  Pete Townshend (of the Who) writes a blog, in addition to his commercial web site.
  (tags: blogs music who rock culture media celebrity)
• Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Intelligence behind raid was wrong, officials say
  Follow up article on the raid on a suspected chemical weapons house last week - bad information?
  (tags: global security terrorism uk policy society privacy)
• Canadian suspects targeted Ottawa, Toronto: media - Yahoo! News
  Unlike the UK raid, the suspects in the Canadian raid last week really were trying to blow up various landmarks such as Parliament, Toronto Stock Exchange, CN Tower, and Peace Tower
  (tags: global terrorism canada security policy culture)
• Americans Killed in Action, Numbers, American War Library
  Table of casualties and costs for all US wars from the American Revolution through Afghanistan and Iraq.
  (tags: us military war costs history society economics reference)
• myDaVinci - Artworks.
  Service that creates custom versions of famous art such as Mona Lisa, merging in your own face from photos.
  (tags: fun art culture photo gifts random)
• The Day That Nothing Happened
  Essay on Wal-Mart in China, the rising middle class vs economically left behind, Tienanman Square.
  (tags: china culture society walmart)

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