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oh no, it's the equinox on thursday… # @timrs I'll leave that up to Marks & Spencer in reply to timrs # idonotwantanotherbicycleidonotwantanotherbicycleidonotwantanotherbicycleidonotwantanotherbicycleidonotwantanotherbicycleidonotwantanother… # @ramtopsgrum have got an MP3 in reply to ramtopsgrum # @cthreeo3 a second one? in reply to cthreeo3 # #HP #Oracle Hurd-brouhaha on @r4today right now # All #NewZealand lamb and…

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Utterly fabulous idea for traveler's utensils: http://i.imgur.com/qoD9A.jpg # What to do if a friend on Facebook suddenly claims to be mugged in London and needs money: http://bit.ly/9junLm ( via http://bit.ly/aQa5bz ) # New: Concept: #Iran sets itself up as regional internet backbone. Iran censors regional Internet. Iran wins. http://bit.ly/cX3mHe # @pauljakma Am not looking at…

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I was pointed at this by the inestimable Joe Carvalho: Iran: Exporting the Internet (part 1) Iran: Exporting the Internet (part 2) Snippets: Until this year, Iranian companies participated in the Internet primarily as consumers of international bandwidth. In 2010, however, they have expanded their scope. Earlier this year the Iranian state telecommunications company began…

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So the reasons that VLC has a traffic cone for its icon really is the obvious one: http://bit.ly/bEwoqq # For a YTMND, this is surprisingly listenable http://nphobbits.ytmnd.com/ # 102 year old lens, mounted on a Canon 5D mk II http://bit.ly/co2x92 – excellent stuff! # @zooko You know you're an anagram of Workaholic Zoo Oxen? #…

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Fullscreen this youtube video and skip to the middle: http://is.gd/feDMl – I would not do this job; I eventually get over vertigo, but… no # This is an impressively timed picture: http://i.imgur.com/jk1lK.jpg – given the results of http://goo.gl/aTyU I presume it's quite recent. # .@alecmuffett Or of course it could be a total, rather than…

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I’m right up there with Evgeny in Slate, until page 2: [ed: Context: Heap blamed, Media Blamed … ] But I don’t think that Heap’s deceptive advertising and the media’s poor watchdogging are the main culprits here. What made Haystack possible was the U.S. government’s urge to embrace the power of the Internet to democratize…

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RT @bhareven: BREAKING NEWS: Pope to be Top Gear 'Star in A Reasonably Priced Car'! Will have time adjusted for heavier bullet proof windows # RT @chrisridd: @alecmuffett maybe [The Pope] is the new Stig? # If you can read code and you're a security geek, this is hilarious: http://bit.ly/c0IaKK # @ramtopsgrum So the ban…

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"We Are Unitarian Jihad" http://bit.ly/91ZzSf – must read! # Definitely think i have some sort of cold brewing. Excuse to spend the day on the sofa with a duvet. # (ps: comprehensive hat-tip: i get a lot of my funny links from @bbart – he should post them himself more often) # Am horrified to…

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The local care-home for the elderly have been junk-mailing me for years, inviting me to visit their luxuriant facilities and consider moving there. I have no idea why they do this since I am hopefully about 47 years away from needing their services, but they persist in this behaviour. They’ve just mailed me an invite…

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A thought experiment; approximate sizes only. 3.5″ platter = 89mm surface area of a 89mm circle = 280 sqmm (square millimeters) surface area of 1″ spindle circle = 80 sqmm working surface area of platter = (280 – 80) * 2 sides = 400 sqmm So if you have a 200Gb hard disk with a…

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I feel @aleksk #virtualrevolution & http://goo.gl/FMMV should shoulder modest responsibility for #haystack hype. uncriticaljournalism=#fail # Just putting to bed an article with @webmink regarding #haystack for ComputerWeekly ; 3 hours sleep. Blarg. # More details to come, but for the moment: http://www.greenlanesecurity.com/ # New: "Burning Haystack" at ComputerWeekly – by @alecmuffett & @webmink http://bit.ly/cj5DLF #…

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