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I didn't know before today: in WWII the Japanese had a lucky shot that could have dented development of the A-bomb http://bit.ly/aujk9E # @gravax Harris Hawk – friendly, gregarious, noisy. Fun? in reply to gravax # @ramtopsgrum If you hear f=GMm/r^2 the joy of science is that it's testable, & the Newton-Apple myth is irrelevant.…

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So maybe this is why people debate about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclavianism # Have just realised why my Blog no longer sends to Twitter when posting. OAuth. Oh, bother. # @ramtopsgrum I remember getting into a transubstantiation argument at school. With the drama teacher. Different, how? in…

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…and how long before t.co comes to be called the “realtime google”?

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Independence Day and V had it wrong; paucity of resources / mining for new riches is a great reason to colonise new worlds – but along with the pursuit of commodities frequently comes the pursuit of extending a religious ideology. Let’s try a few words to illustrate: Crusade. Evangelism. Missionary. Conquistador. Civilisation. Conversion. Someone must…

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@pmoriarty asks “What’s so scary about RPZ?” in reference to a couple of tweets of mine regarding DNS reputation blacklisting. So I’ll try to phrase a response. It’ll take more than 140 characters. First up, I want to be clear about the terms of the question – this is not a technical crit of RPZ,…

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Considering a cycle trip to Windsor Great Park in the near future. Aside from greenery, deer & royals, plz suggest something to do/see/eat? #

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How to be an Internet Tycoon: if net neutrality ends http://bit.ly/9LWKYx – v.good, although on the internet we can have "stealth" cattle # The biggest threat to the net is not #netneutrality it's those who want to remake it "properly" so that it "works" with clear "ownership" # @coruskate Yes, yes they could, but then…

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By someone’s request, one of my old demonstration programs: perl -nle ‘setpwent;crypt($_,$c)eq$c&&print”$u=$_”while($u,$c)=getpwent’ <dictfile …works on Unixes without shadow files / with NIS, or with root privilege. It’s hardly the most efficient way of doing a sweep for weak passwords, but there was a time where doing: echo changeme | perl -nle …cut-and-paste… …was horrifyingly effective…

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Via @CliveMKing – Stephen Gough, the Naked Rambler, in prison in Scotland for doing what he does best http://bit.ly/bLDRr5 # It strikes me that if all you need to do for free bed and board in Scotland is strip naked, more people should be doing it… # 1) the trike works 2) post-overhaul it's quicker…

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@jimfinnis seen http://bit.ly/bJH9il ? in reply to jimfinnis # stem ginger cookies: http://bit.ly/9bl2ia (walnut) brownies: http://bit.ly/jyNCV #

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Today I learned that the THX sound is scored/written in 20,000 lines of C code – http://bit.ly/qiE7m # Six pairs of pants sewn together to form an open surface of genus two with four boundary components http://bit.ly/bCF8FZ # Stephen Fry on Swearing, w/ Hugh Laurie in Drag (briefly) http://youtu.be/s_osQvkeNRM # crushing the frantic penguins and…

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