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Surly Pugsley in Aussie CSR Adventure! Bicycling through the Australian bush – fantastic pictures. (tags: bikes Travel Australia surly cycles) Canning Stock Route by Bike 2005 Quote: At the end of August I will attempt to cycle the full length of the longest track on Earth with no external support. The route leads through the…

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This is one of those great ideas of the “why hasn’t it been done already” kind; the money quote is: “Doctors have always welcomed and valued constructive comments from their patients […] However, the BMA is concerned that an uncensored website could be used in a malicious way against individual doctors or provide a generally…

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1975 Unix flaw fixed – The INQUIRER A BUG IN UNIX that has been in existence since 1975 has finally been fixed. The bug in an AT&T version of Unix, which was undiscovered until recently, has been with us ever since the Who’s Tommy flick premiered in London, the first microcomputer the Altair 8800 hit…

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Yes! We have a war on cutlery!

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Via several friends: it’s a couple of days old, but: Toddlers who dislike spicy food racist, say report Ian has a phrase for this sort of nonsense: “Oh, bloody hellllllllllllll…”

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Feline Chylothorax ~ Pawprints and Purrs, Inc. Chylothorax is a relatively uncommon disorder in the cat whereby lymph fluid (chyle) accumulates in the pleural cavity. This small cavity lies between the lungs and the inner lining of the chest wall. Normally, only about a teaspoon of clear fluid is pres (tags: buster cats)

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plasq.com – Skitch – Snap, Draw, Share Worth getting for the Mac? (tags: mac software photography art) Penn Elcom – Flight Case & Speaker Cabinet Solutions Maker of flight-case components elfrc – a resource compiler for ELF systems cute, and with a high potential for both amusement and evil. (tags: development opensource programming)

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Normally riding home on the trike is a breeze; 99% of people are pleased to see you, wave, grin, kids point and you can read their lips going “I want one of those”… …and then you run into the remaining 1%. Around 1915h (ie: within the past 60 minutes) I was coming home along the…

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IMG_4179 Originally uploaded by alecmuffett …is full of this thing; a Eurofighter practicing for the Farnborough Airshow. See the whole picture set.

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The question is in the subject line. Which, and why?

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ReiserFS fading into obscurity as maker leads cops to corpse ReiserFS is an open source software project and can be continued by other contributors even though its creator will soon be incarcerated and his company, called Namesys, has collapsed. Our postmortem analysis of the ReiserFS mailing list, however, seems to indicate that the project is…

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I have written before about the ease of AppleID theft and about how people keep trying to do it to me (and they still keep trying; the last attempt was only a few weeks ago). Now it appears someone else is suffering and actually wrote about it. Apple, when will you please fix this? Apple…

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