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This is fun. Jim Hughes and Jeff Bonwick, wrecking live disks on stage. Scroll to the bottom of the page, play the video, and push the slider over to the 18:00 minute mark.

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I always wondered how long it would be before folks started to whine. The obvious question is: why are they complaining about the cyclists when they could be complaining about getting a bigger train. Trains are not a fixed resource. If there is demand, there should also be supply. It’s funny also how the guy…

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Having enjoyed the grand success that is Terminal 5’s baggage handling system and mentioning this to Jim he in turn pointed me to “The Travelling Cryptographer’s Problem“:    (by James Birkett and Gaven Watson, (best rump presentation award) at EuroCrypt 2008)

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Another place to visit… Tunnel becomes Banksy art exhibit A disused road tunnel in south London has been turned into a giant exhibition space by graffiti artist Banksy. Murals in the Bristol artist’s famous stencil style appear with work by 29 other artists in a half-mile stretch of the tunnel in Leake Street, Waterloo. Images…

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I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but I was thinking it over and have come up with a list of my issues regarding a US movie adapation of Edge of Darkness – feel free to add to it in the comments: Bob Peck is Dead: OK, that’s a bit unfair, but the man did “grief” like nobody…

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Dear Alex, I was drunk and bored, so I mowed your lawn. I hope you like it. Charlie (next door) …on a note in the letterbox when I got home. Tidy job too – clippings and everything.

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Damn; EoD is one of the best things ever made for television, and they are letting Hollywood at it. Specifically, they are letting Mel Gibson at it. Damn. And I’ll bet you that Darius Jedburgh is nothing like a fat, corrupt, CIA operative who obsesses over “Come Dancing”. It’ll probably be Keanu Reeves, hooked on…

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All the good logos are gone, and most of the bad ones too. Heaven forbid the next step of people copyrighting “mission statements” – to do so would surely halt all internet innovation…

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The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment « Content Consumer This should be mandatory usability testing for any platform; wonderful. (tags: design ubuntu usability)

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Quoth das Daily Mail: ‘That dress 2’! Eight years on, a new gown and Liz Hurley’s as stunning as ever Eight years, from 1994 to 2008? Ummm… Update: hey, they’ve now fixed their math. They can be taught!

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Fed up with the new Dilbert user interface? Use the Web version of the RSS frontend at http://feeds.feedburner.com/DilbertDailyStrip instead…

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