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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) say "Yes, cut that clitoris for God!" http://bit.ly/9hcFPt http://bit.ly/98ovHc #darkages # Reading "The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct" http://bit.ly/90RIsZ – makes you wonder … # @katzmandu i hope not ; that said i am also anti-cutting of any sort, male or female, so i see a larger issue…

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Twitter – First With The News: UKIP candidate Nigel Farage in plane crash, use search to follow story. # Dropsafe: How to follow Facebook and Livejournal using Feedreaders, and thereby recover some privacy http://bit.ly/dlSbVN # If the turnout at #HartleyWintney is anything to go by, this'll be a big election. Almost double the usual activity.…

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If, like me, you are trying to live “off-grid” from FaceBook and/or LiveJournal, one good option is a feed-reader. These subversive software tools are supported by most major silo websites and (to varying extents) permit you to download huge gobs of data for later perusal, online and/or offline. The silos don’t like them because there…

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something on #rocketboom is dreadfully wrong: http://www.rocketboom.com/wp-admin/install.php # Dropsafe: security discussion: crypto – a partial spoiler for Facebook's world domination http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4046 # Gwibber on #Karmic is as slow as a snail ; does #Lucid #Ubuntu use the supposedly faster "beta" version? Is it quick on a 1.6GHz netbook ? # >@asavage "He said a group…

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http://importantrecords.com/sunboxes/ Sun Boxes are an environment to enter and exit. It’s comprised of twenty speakers operating independently each powered by solar panels. There is a different guitar sample in each box all playing together making the composition. The guitar samples are all of different lengths so the whole piece keeps evolving. Participants are encouraged to…

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I’m not deleting my Facebook – not yet, anyway. I have too many friends who use FB exclusively, and a large number who choose to comment on my blogposts via Facebook Wall Postings rather than on my blog itself. However I am paring-away as much information as I can from my Facebook page, moving towards…

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i’ll be brief… issue: facebook conversation threads, messages, etc, get mined for keywords and likes, etc, and turned into adverts solution that pisses off facebook while : obfuscating cryptography phase 1: rot13 your conversation threads phase 2: a browser plugin which automatically detects/decrypts this (some already exist) phase 3: a browser plugin with more advanced,…

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http://bit.ly/9uni0u "He thought her beautiful… dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink" # I feel certain that there's a PhD to be had in researching the radio listening demographics of builders, plasterers and decorators # Lots of VOOOOOOOM sounds from the direction of Odiham. Airshow practice?…

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#GNOME devs, please get creative with your icons; #gwibber and #liferea and "mount a remote volume" all have earth-icons, v.confusing # prybar, pliers & small vacuum cleaner in one hand, glass of chilled dry sherry in the other; yes, it's denailing-the-floorboards time again! # BBC Failwhale includes traditional Testcard dolly in a ball of flame!…

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Rocketboom on how to dispute a YouTube copyright claim: http://bit.ly/aeOKVE – important stuff # Tim Minchin Pope Song: saw it last night at 320 views, this morning at 26,000 views, now at 50,000 views. Are we viral yet? # Anybody on #ubuntu know a batch mechanism to change *all* file-type handlers that would invoke #totem…

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@cthreeo3 tastes like … chicken^H^H^H^H^H^H^H rhubarb. in reply to cthreeo3 # Reviewing "I Had NO Idea That Google Could Do This" on Facebook, am presuming it's another FaceTrojan until proven otherwise. # It's kinda tragic that my default view of #FaceBook stuff is that "It's A Trap" – prettymuch the same way I view e-mail,…

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