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  “The chief pathologist Doctor Michel Durigon decided it was time to create a Salle des Departs, a place where families and friends could come to say goodbye to their loved ones without, as he says, ‘having to suffer sickly background music and a red carpet.’ The result was a commission for a groundbreaking piece…

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ACC RIP

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SecurityProPortal.com It’s a shame when website feeds don’t come up to spec; then you have to revisit the site all the time, and then that slides… (tags: security itproportal)

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Charles Bremner – Times Online – WBLG: Don’t mess with the camembert, say French cheese experts Smelly French cheese caused me once to be ordered off a Russian train by border guards during the Cold War. They suspected that I was travelling with something lethal. I was bringing back to Moscow a supply of Reblochon,…

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I don’t follow the US elections very much, but I can recognise from miles away the tone of a someone from the Internet age colliding with a lumbering public relations mechanoid; some call it “fisking”, others call it “flaming”, doubtless some will call it “unprofessional”… but I call it a bellwether of the generation gap…

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No, I haven’t flipped out. My colleague Brian Herman has been watching Lessig, Hardt and me, and has correctly intuited the reasons why that presentation style is so successful – which he clearly articulates in the first couple of minutes of his own, first-ever, presentation: It’s worth listening to, and it almost makes Project Managment,…

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Moblog test Originally uploaded by alecmuffett The current setup…

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SanDisk | Compatibility | Compatible products IXUS 900 may support up to 8Gb SDHC (tags: ixus900 ixus sdhc) tablets-dev.nokia.com restricted downloads n800 development images (tags: n800 nokia software os2008) The easy way to connect N800 to I go keyboard – Internet Tablet Talk Forums possible way to get around the keyboard-pairing problem on os2008 (tags:…

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“Spaced”, being remade in the USA? Please, God, no, don’t spoil one of my favourite shows of all time. Simon Pegg says (extract from a long piece) Simon Pegg on the American Remake of Spaced | /Film […] My main problem with the notion of a Spaced remake is the sheer lack of respect that…

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PCGuide – Ref – External Power – UPS Types UPS technical FAQ (tags: ups) OSx86 Project | InsanelyMac running osx on generic hardware? (tags: apple osx virtualization hacks leopard mac) Porting UNIX/Linux Applications to Mac OS X: Introduction to Porting UNIX/Linux Applications to Mac OS X The UNIX Porting Guide is a first stop for…

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Walking in Moravia Adriana’s first video with the HD camcorder (tags: adriana video czech church cemetary)

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This is too much fun – I know the owners of #31, #34 and #39, and have met a shedload of the others. Alas, the Observer also missed a bunch…

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