Dropsafe

Those who desire a feed of my bitchery wit and wisdom shorn of the links which I’ve been browsing and filing to del.icio.us are now free to take such. Not merely are the links indexed in a “linkfarm” category, but also they are all registered to the alecm-links user; both methods of indexing yield their…

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BBC: Smith targets internet extremism The home secretary is to outline plans to target websites promoting extremism, as part of efforts to stop people being drawn towards radical groups. Jacqui Smith says she wants to use technology to stop “vulnerable people” being “groomed for violent extremism”. “Stopping people becoming or supporting terrorists is the major…

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The Moral Instinct – New York Times Fantastic essay on morality and [what i would largely agree with are] its roots … (tags: pinker morality philosophy) BBC NEWS | Magazine | How to spot a Banksy essential identification 🙂 (tags: news banksy art) Zed on Ruby, Rails, Mongrel, and More – O’Reilly Ruby Zed on…

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test for links user for delicious postings

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from the unix fortune file: If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. — Gerald Holton If I have not seen…

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BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: From edible to incredible The photos are beautiful and unreal, but the claim “everything you see in this image can be found in the kitchen” is regrettably dubious nowadays (tags: bbc art blogging food photography) Smithsonian Magazine | Travel | The Smithsonian Life List The Smithsonian’s list…

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Nanohazard Sign Competition; I like this one:

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I had a CT scan taken last month and my GP wanted to have a look at the images himself, so I stopped by the hospital this morning to ask for a copy. The young lady at the medical imaging front desk just needed my name and data of birth (not what I’d call strict…

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A skeptical look at the Automated Content Access Protocol: Page 1 ACAP broadly expands on the robots.txt concept and […] As one might guess, ACAP is largely promoted by content makers but has yet to be endorsed or supported by any mainstream search engine companies. (tags: acap privacy contentmanagement publishing security obscurity) CERIAS Weblogs »…

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The Cloud Appreciation Society At The Cloud Appreciation Society we love clouds, we’re not ashamed to say it and we’ve had enough of people moaning about them.Read our manifesto and see how we are fighting the banality of ‘blue-sky thinking’. If you agree with what we stand for (tags: atmosphere clouds nature weather science) James…

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Internet Community Ports Act – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nutters who think that [US] federal regulation which prohibits hosting Porn on port 80, will make the Net safe for children. Yay! Now everyone can surf in privacy as all the porn merchants switch to HTTPS on port 443 … (tags: icpa pr0n cp80) U.S. Launches…

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