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Some great photos over at the Cellar Image of the Day.

The fully automatic 12 gauge shotguns cost extra.

Wikipedia on Assassination Markets

An assassination market is a theoretical prediction market wherein any party can place a bet (using anonymous electronic money, and pseudonymous remailers) on the date of death of a given individual, and collect a payoff if they “guess” the date accurately. Because the payoff is for knowing the date rather than performing the action of the assassin, it is substantially more difficult to assign criminal liability for the action(s).

(See also Assassination Politics)

Er, I mean Douglas Adams and Tom Baker. They’ve decided to go back in time to 1991 and mock us, satirizing the strange, plastic world of 2001. An age we can posthumously deride as an “embarrassment of non-riches,” considering the insight we have compared to them.