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Before: After: Isn’t Photoshop wonderful? (Via)

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A rechargable, electric, artificial cigarette which is legal to smoke “anywhere” and is advertised by Bill Wyman? Riiiiiiiiiight. SuperSmoker – The alternative cigarette (Warning: autoplay Quicktime video with annoying cheap-TV-advert voiceover) Of course if you were to buy one of these things and smoke it in a pub, the amount of time you would spend…

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Bray thinks that the first program which should be documented in any programming language book is “Hello, world.” – and I agree with him. I have several times felt a pang of “when I am going to be able to interact between the code I am writing and the person who is using that code?”…

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Did you know that Apple gives discounts for tattoos? (As I learned from Laureen yesterday evening)

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While in the USA, being introduced to them by Adriana, I picked up a pair of MBT shoes: For those who have not encountered them there is a certain amount of marketing hokum which goes on at excessive length about how some Swiss scientist worked out that Masai bushmen never had foot problems and had…

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This reads like something that Kibo would have produced in the early 1990s, but because it is in The Economist and for a serious company, I am presuming that some trendoid got paid vast sums for creating this drivel: The Future? What Future? I’m the Future! I’m ALWAYS ON! Fifteen-year-old Olga is a Parisian high…

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Egret In Emeryville Marina Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Small Egret or Heron, fishing just off the walkway to Emeryville Marina.

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Stingray (?) In Emeryville Marina Originally uploaded by alecmuffett I was shooting pix of the Egret (see other photos) when Adriana noticed this ray in the water, moving at speed; I got off a single shot before it vanished into the murk. The image cleaned-up well. The ray was about 18″ across.

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Want. Billion-pixel panoramas — from your own camera – Times Online The Gigapan allows people to take pictures which are more than a gigapixel – or 1,000 megapixels – in size, effectively turning a single photograph into a panoramic experience, around which the viewer can navigate on a computer. Yet the actual camera used is…

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CA Anti-Spyware 2008 (aka: Pestpatrol) is not quite correct about CrackLib: http://www.pestpatrol.com/zks/pestinfo/c/cracklib_2_7.asp Clot Factor: Cracklib 2.7: 1 The “Clot Factor” is a measure of how much a pest “gums up” a machine by adding registry entries, files, and directories. As more objects are placed in a machine, manual removal becomes more difficult and more error-prone.…

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One of the things I hate about jetlag: waking up at 0438h when you get home. One of the things I love about jetlag: waking up at 0438h when you get home. Damn it is – or was – early; having just got back from the SF Bay Area for the third time in 3…

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spufidoo: Quote of the week: “Our Catholic speed dating event has been cancelled because a lot of the men had to pull out at the last minute.”

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