At least according to most sources I’ve run across, Kathy etchingham spells her name with a K not a C. But, there were some interesting finds searching it with a C, so I’ll share those:
On September 25th in 1966, according to MTV.ca ,

Jimi Hendrix’s second day in London was an eventful one. He was sleeping in bed with Cathy Etchingham, a 19-year-old hairdresser, when Keith Richards’ ex Linda Keith busted into his hotel room, stole a guitar she bought for him in New York, climbed into bed and said he could only have the guitar back if he slept with her. Hendrix declined the offer.

and here’s an article about Jimi living in Handel’s old house:
Hallelujah! It’s Hendrix in Handel’s Old House which now apparently has an English Heritage marker denoting the Hendrix residency as well.

Check out the Yahoo slideshows in celebration of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner (and FBI terrorist watch list suspect) Nelson Mandela in celebration of his 90th birthday today.

In the latest issue of Discover magazine, there’s an article on the topic of comercial satellite images, Google Street View and such things. The article is called No Place to Hide, by Sharon Weinberger (starts on p.32). When I find a more readable link that what I’ve given above, I’ll add that in.

A bit of interesting info-

GeoEye-1 (planned launch next month) will have a ground resolution of 41 centimeters.

“From 423 miles in space, we’ll be able to see an object the size of home plate on a baseball diamond”

For nongovernmental customers- we get the degraded 1/2 meter resolution.

I guess NPR did a story on a company called Green Apple Barter. They’ve now become a hot trend. It doesn’t sound like too great a deal to me personally, since they apparently take 6% on transactions in addition to having a startup fee of $400 and a monthly fee of $40. Additionally, they report all trade sales to the IRS.

But, it’s nice to see that people are considering alternatives.
The thin paper vault has a post about barter, freecycle, Swaptree, and other similar type things. I’ve mentioned barter a few times here; once in this post and once as one of the many things explored as part of the Low income/ simple living as War Tax Resistance pamphlet.

Taking a look at the recent hot trends, here are a few I thought worth a mention:

17. weather underground, 19. wunderground, 64. www.wunderground.com online weather site now offers fire tracking
Jibjab 1. jib jab, 2.jibjab.com, 16.www.jibjab.com has a new hit, apparently, with for Time for Some Campaignin’

and there seems to be a bit of interest in topics I blog frequently here about as well:
21. banks at risk 43. consumer price index 59. terror watch list 66. terrorist screening database That good ol’ terror watch list just broke the million people mark, folks….
your tax dollars hard at work keeping you safe from deceased terrorists, Nobel Peace Prize winners, members of congress, foreign heads of state, senators’ wives and six year olds.

I almost didn’t post a file 13 post this month, but I figure if I break the streak now I may not pick it back up. So, without further ado, I give you the difference between cats and dogs:
Death Metal doggie #1 and
Death Metal doggie #2

vs.
Death Metal kitty #1
and Death Metal kitty #2

Death Metal kitty #3

and on a not quite related note, here’s a video of Led Zeppelin playing Black Dog @ Earl’s Court way back in 1975…

and Ted Nugent performing Cat Scratch Fever in 1977

InBev agrees to buy Anheuser for $50 billion

This merger of two of the top 1000 companies in the world, InBev and Anheuser-Busch, (at #149 on the US list, Anheuser-Busch falls just below the global Fortune 500 threshhold- #148 Fluor ranks globally at #500) creates the world’s largest beer maker and shrinks the playing field some more.

I just had lunch at a local Mexican restaurant which had a sign up at the register which informed customers that they would continue to provide complimentary chips and sals, but because of rising food prices they would be limiting their portions. Chip and salsa.

Yep. Just in case further proof was needed that Bush is indeed the antiChrist, there’s this news, just in… George W. Bush, already down in history books earlier this year for having the highest disapproval rating of any President in the 70 year history of the Gallup poll (69% vs. 28% approval) jokes about being the world’s biggest polluter. This is the same guy somehow manages to get impeachment taken off the table by his (theoretical) political opponents and just signed a retroactive immunity bill into law for those telecom companies which have been spying on US citizens lo these many years…

President George Bush: ‘Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter’

The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to tackle climate change, ended a private meeting with the words: “Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.”

He then punched the air while grinning widely, as the rest of those present including Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy looked on in shock.

Mr Bush, whose second and final term as President ends at the end of the year, then left the meeting at the Windsor Hotel in Hokkaido where the leaders of the world’s richest nations had been discussing new targets to cut carbon emissions.

Public radio station WBEZ apparently aired a 2 part radio show yesterday and today featuring interviews with Sibel Edmonds and information about her story on the program Worldview as part of a continuing National Security Whistleblowers series. Good news that her story is getting some air time!