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Project: Match Rockets – Grathio Labs
via We used to make match rockets at school! But this has a launcher! Where did I leave those Swan Vestas?
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Police Tape: an ACLU mobile app # and a reason to prefer Android over iPhone #security #opensystems
Sometimes having a curated application store is a benefit; other times it’s a risk: Police Tape is an Android app from the American Civil Liberties Union that is designed to allow citizens to covertly record the police. When activated, it hides itself from casual inspection, and it has a mode that causes it to send…
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High #security first pet naming guidelines # Next: Time Machine and change your maternal grandparents family name
From the humor site NewsBiscuit, a brilliant set of security guidelines for naming your first pet, so that when your bank uses “what was the name of your first pet,” in order to verify your identity, you will be safe. Banks are now advising parents to think carefully before naming their child’s first pet. For…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-08
DING DONG THE BIRD IS DEAD http://t.co/TGa90wgV # HEADSUP it appears that #bcb2012 barcamp has a mildly(?) web-blocked internet access. Shall we do a research experiment boys&girls? # @DrJennyWoods woo? # @DrJennyWoods Tough call. Giving it to charity helps but its never easy. # Hey #torproject :: do you have a standardised list of ~2000…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-07
#foursquare apparently dead. for me at least. # and#foursquare back just in time for dinner # celebrating 6 years not dead 🙂 http://t.co/cyQeOOOf #
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-06
@ZaReasonNZ Does anyone in the family upload YouTube videos frequently? # RT @edent: @AlecMuffett will comment more fully later, but YouView requires 3Mbps. That's with just one box! # .@adamkinsley Where is this #Arquiva report that "2.5Mbps is legally adequate for anyone"? Bring it out that we may post it to #Reddit # .@adamkinsley Aha,…
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WANT ADVICE: best small PC speakers for music?
Looking to replace my old Creative Travel Sound which is currently hardwired to the Mac Mini, as seen here: …with something more suited to cranking up the volume for Motown, rock, pop, folk and opera? Possibly including a small woofer; footprint space is at a premium but there’s a shelf below.
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Seems like Eric Pickles has been listening to @newsbrooke
Local councils could be banned from publishing their own newspapers more than four times a year under proposed new laws. Communities secretary Eric Pickles issued guidelines in March 2011 under the Code of Recommended Practice on Local Authority Publicity, requesting that councils reduce their publishing activities. While some local authorities have complied, it goes without…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-07-05
@TErtelme http://t.co/T93aa8Ev cc: @drjennywoods # Word for today: #higgsteria # RT @MouldS: Set Theory card game is is back on sale! http://t.co/pN2Kht1h . Video here: http://t.co/DZ8IC9aE # favourite game! # ANNOUNCE: The Digital Economy Act: "Three Strikes" isn't Cricket; @OpenRightsGroup London Pub Meet Monday July 16th http://t.co/OCk4TCKM # : Solitary #LiberalDemocrat MEP is the only…
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The appellant replied “fuck off I’ve nae warrant” # classic
KENNETH LESLIE STEWART KINNAIRD v. PROCURATOR FISCAL, GLASGOW, 24 April 2001, Lord Eassie+Lord Kingarth+Lord Prosser
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Dryden after Horace
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair or foul or rain or shine The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not Heaven itself upon the past has…