SIM Card Spy Ear
Just take your SIM card out of your cellphone and stick it in this mysterious black box that's about the size of a bar of soap. Hide the $85 device in an inconspicuous location wherever you want to do your listening, and then when you call your cellphone number from another phone, you suddenly have ears in exactly the right places.From Surveillance: SIM Card Spy Ear for Nosy Neighbors and Private Eyes - Gizmodo
Cool. I have no need for this but I really want one. If it had a cam-phone mode I could use it to keep tabs on my cat.
one billion dollars
Less than a month before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein signaled that he was willing to go into exile as long as he could take with him $1 billion and information on weapons of mass destruction, according to a report of a Feb. 22, 2003, meeting between President Bush and his Spanish counterpart published by a Spanish newspaper yesterday.From WaPo
After reading that about Saddam, the first thing I thought was how much cheaper that would have been; both in blood and treasure. Now I wonder if it would be possible to pay Bush, Cheney, Rove and the whole neo-con cabal; a billion each to leave the US and never come back. That's still less than half of the 55 billion more they want to continue the war.