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  • Kevin "Jailbird Hacker" Mitnick is in danger of losing the ham radio license he's held for 25 years; the FCC has decided that he doesn't possess the moral fortitude to own an amateur radio license.

    Boing Boing: June 16, 2002 - June 22, 2002 Archives 2002

  • (399 rupees) and mugs (295 rupees), which are sold under the brand name Jailbird and cleverly marry Mumbai slang with statements of gay pride.

    NYT > Home Page By ABBY RABINOWITZ 2010

  • Thanks to Jeff "Jailbird" Meyerson for the link, which I of course won't use.

    Archive 2007-05-27 Bill Crider 2007

  • Commission which played a key role in uncovering scandals such as the criminal ways of Jim 'Jailbird'

    Fair Deal Phil 2010

  • And while they cruised through a swaggering stomper like "Jailbird," they couldn't quite handle the immensity of acid house classic "Higher Than the Sun," killing the euphoric come down by amping up the guitars and having Bobby G howl into the mic.

    ! Exclaim.ca - News 2009

  • Catching the innocence of Punk is never easy but the Hearts had it from the start, with the sniffing in "Jailbird", fickle teen love via "Pretender" and all the heart breaking excellence of "Modern Kicks".

    Glide Magazine - Music :: Culture :: Life 2009

  • Finally, a dark horse nominee for a great, late-20th-c. novel, with an historical bent: Vonnegut's Jailbird, which has a great take on the Hiss case, 30s radicalism, and the military/industrial complex.

    A post that requires you to accept that I can do a passable impersonation of Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man 2009

  • Actually, walk around the Chicago neighborhood where Rod “Jailbird” Blagojevich lives (Blaggo moved on the block where a friend of mine lived so I know it fairly well).

    Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Missing the Trees 2009

  • Would have been an even more perfect evening had Franken won (which he could over time if the recounts prove he did after the MI absentee ballots are finally counted) and "Batshit" Bachmann and "Jailbird" Teddy Stevens lost.

    Obama's Resounding Victory, By The Numbers 2009

  • The only juicy thing I heard was that Jailbird Hilton had successfully shopped a children's book proposal to HarperCollins, a rumored denied by one Harper editor who stopped by.

    Romper Stomper Bomper Boo Roger Sutton 2007

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