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Things you didn’t know this morning: Namibia Guidebook The “fog-basking” beetle (Onymacris unguicularis) taps the fog for drink. Although it is ordinarily diurnal, it emerges from the sand on foggy nights and climbs to the dune crest, where water condensation is greatest. Head lowered and posterior raised in a kind of handstand, it faces into…

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The greenhouses of Almeria – 20,000 hectares under plastic. View Larger Map Didn’t you ever wonder where those “Produce of Spain” tomatoes you get in mid-winter, come from? Apparently their water-table is dropping.

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WiFi at Restaurants, Pubs and Bars in London SE1 Free Wifi Near Waterloo

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I read this, and it inspired the thought with which I titled this article – replace Gordon Brown with Gordon Ramsay. F***, you call this a balanced budget? It’s f***ing not, you f***ing ninny! Now get f***ing back in there and f***ing do it f***ing again. Has potential. Thailand | Where cookery is crookery |…

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LRB · Daniel Soar: Short Cuts LRB on surveillance. Santa Cruz Mountains and <br>Santa Clara Valley wines: Wines for $10 or less Tong speaks! Park Tool Website BRAKE TUTORIALS (tags: cycle bicycle bike cycling brake) Park Tool Website REAR DERAILLER ADJUSTMENTS (DERAILLEUR) (tags: cycling bicycle bike bikes chain) Park Tool Website Chain Sizing Notes (tags:…

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Via my pal “Dr Brad”: Political Buzzword Bingo! 2008 Presidential Edition [Print] this bingo card and use it to get through the 2008 Presidential and Vice Presidential debates. Mark the buzzwords as you hear them; the Hail to the Chief square is a free square. If you get five in a row (up, down, diagonally),…

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Park Tool Website BRAKE TUTORIALS (tags: cycle bicycle bike cycling brake) Park Tool Website REAR DERAILLER ADJUSTMENTS (DERAILLEUR) (tags: cycling bicycle bike bikes chain) Park Tool Website Chain Sizing Notes (tags: cycle cycling bicycle bike xtracycle chain) Green Tuesday: Birth of an Xtracycle, Part Two | Bike Commuters Xtracycle Assy, 2 Green Tuesday: Birth of…

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No, really. I have a pretty good track record of getting the neat gadgets about 6 months before everyone else; it’s kinda weird, and I am certainly not setting trends – in fact I am rarely the first to try sometihng since I usually pick stuff up off friends – but something must peg my…

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This is my old college buddy Ian, from IBM Global Services. He has something very important to say about presentation decks, powerpoint, slideware and the like. Everyone should watch it – he puts the point very nicely, politely, and in a lovely British accent. Note especially the “Am I bovvered?” question – if you are…

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This is really savvy, if potentially a little too late, but I think it might be timed just right. People who follow me on Twitter know that I am buying an Xtracycle conversion kit to overhaul my old steel-framed ’93 Raleigh Amazon MTB (aka “The Hybrid”, now it’s set up for comfort on the road)…

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It’s been the stuff of geek jokes for years, but actually I think the idea’s kinda cool… BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Silent gig ‘rocks’ London

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glory that was empire, The | Spectator, The | Find Articles at BNET dad, on colonialism (tags: nigeria colonialism empire) philosophicallexicon.com via Adriana (tags: reference humor philosophy fun) On the funding of open source [on Simon Phipps, SunMink] I remember when I were a lad, "Free Software" was something that you wrote, not worried about…

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