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#HamzaKashgari : Saudi Cleric castigates Twitter, Saudi Prince invests in Twitter # @Arabist
The National reports that the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia has “issued a fatwa against Twitter, demanding that ‘real Muslims’ avoid it, calling it a ‘platform for trading accusations and for promoting lies’.” The pretext for this condemnation of social media is the case of the Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari, who was extradited from Malaysia…
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Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support to Open Source XQuartz – MacRumors.com
Apple Removes X11 in OS X Mountain Lion, Shifts Support to Open Source XQuartz – MacRumors.com. Mmmm…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-19
: When the Publishers Association mention "illegal content" – here's an example. HT @PublishersAssoc @OpenRightsGroup http://t.co/ZOJDPymn # : Today I made the horrific discovery that one of the most cringeworthy songs I know is a Rachmaninov piece http://t.co/4KMiF3sB # : The world altitude record for a helicopter led immediately to the the record for unpowered…
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VideoLAN – VLC 2.0 Twoflower is available…
With faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bits codecs, 2.0 is a major upgrade for VLC. Twoflower has a new rendering pipeline for video, with higher quality subtitles, and new video filters to enhance your videos. It supports many new devices and…
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Remember this folding UK 13 Amp plug? Well now it’s here, sort-of…
…now browse onwards to The Telegraph. Product home site.
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“@angusprune: Website idea: isthepubsafe.com tells you if there is a major sporting fixture on or if it is safe to go to the pub”
Website idea: isthepubsafe.com tells you whether there is a major sporting fixture on or if it is safe to go to the pub — James H (@angusprune) February 18, 2012 I’d use that.
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The world altitude record for a helicopter led immediately to the the record for unpowered descent of a helicopter…
The Lama was designed specifically for high-altitude performance and during demonstration flights in the Himalayas during 1969, an SA315B carrying a crew of two and 120 kg of fuel landed and took off at the highest altitude then recorded, 7,500 m (24,605 ft). On 21 June 1972 a Lama with a single pilot (Jean Boulet)…
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When the Publishers Association mention “illegal content” – here’s an example. HT @PublishersAssoc @OpenRightsGroup
If you go to this page at the University of Pennsylvania, you’ll read the following text: A Celebration of Woman Writers Married Love, or Love in Marriage By Marie Carmichael Stopes, Sc.D., Ph. D. (1880-1958) New York: The Critic And Guide Company, 1918. In the Unites States of America, [sic] the 1918 edition of “Married…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-18
: #Geek #Friday #Bored Check out @schuetzdj & his worked solutions of #Security Conference Badge Contests http://t.co/Qpap7fXp # @nyyrajvggranhre @gigaom @adrianco Cruel, but no argument from me re: some of them… # @tomaszmiklas Thanks for that, I'd entirely missed the ticket registration for #BSidesLondon # @tomaszmiklas done. # Yes! Yes! Precisely! One for @ericjoyce and…
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Chase Williams Apple Gin: does make an epic, though simple, clean and strong, G&T – HT @WilliamsGin
As reviewed here. If you want massive herbage in your G&T, stick to Hendricks or Sapphire which are also good, just different.