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• The longest drives on Google Maps :: Unalaska, AK, USA to Southern Newfoundland, Canada
• A bad night for Labour in the U.K. :: Gordon Brown today acknowledged a "bad night" for Labour after the party's national share of the vote plummeted to 24% - its lowest level since the 1960s – in his first electoral test as prime minister.
• Of course it is also bad when Gordon Brown when you are being compared to Mr. Bean.
• Minnesota has an annual mullet competition. 
• Wal-Mart has some global competition that is giving the big Dub some headaches
• How to really annoy junk mailers
• Dooce has a new book coming out
• It's apparently okay to call Putin a facist now :: It is no longer controversial to note that Putin "has led Russia into a harsh brand of authoritarianism with some fascist features," as French scholar Pierre Hassner said in a speech last fall. But it's worth recalling the methodical and patient way he crept toward dictatorship, because recent events raise fears that he is now creeping in the same way toward stifling the independence that Russia's neighboring states have enjoyed since the Soviet Union fractured in 1991.
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. got robbed last night by Kyle Busch