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Twine. Yay: Making sense of an ever-increasing number of emails, web pages, feeds, and social networking contacts is a tough job for even the most organised person. But now a new website can organise your life like a personal assistant, say its developers. Hmm: Its website called Twine, which is currently in beta testing, harnesses…

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Left-Hand-Turn Elimination – New York Times Last year, according to Heather Robinson, a U.P.S. spokeswoman, the software helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas (tags: technology) Brits! Petition for mandatory notification following data hemorrhages – Boing Boing The petition…

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24-Hour Michael Bolton Station Declares Bankruptcy | The Austin Probe – Austin News what i can’t believe is that this is for real (tags: news radio) Review: Windows XP – Coding Sanity I have finally decided to take the plunge. Last night I upgraded my Vista desktop machine to Windows XP, and this afternoon I…

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Coudal Partners The coolest secondhand store on the planet? (tags: documentary video technology science) Danny O’Brien’s Oblomovka i really ought to read danny more often Data File Metaformats ESR on metaformats, microformats, CSV, and the stuff which people take all too seriously nowadays (tags: programming microformats metaformats) Dogwash: A thin veneer another link to dad’s…

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sometimes you see something which should have been invented years ago.

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Hi-tech tools divide social sites Finally, Facebook has announced plans to license its development system to other sites. Since it was announced in May 2007 more than 7,000 applications have been written for Facebook. (tags: Facebook web2.0 opensocial) Marantz PMD620 Need? (tags: toys technology) Podcasting News (tags: podcasting toys) The…

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blackbag » AXA: A new phase in security There is a trick to open some of these locks in seconds, causing no damage to the lock. In the article, Dutch police advises to always use two locks to secure your bike (and better lock your bike to solid objects too). (tags: cycle Lockpicking Security) Google-Specific…

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Please, please, don’t mess it up…

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AtomEnabled / Developers / Protocol / Atom Publishing Protocol Spec ATOM reference document #1 (tags: reference atom xml) AtomEnabled / Developers / Syndication / Atom Syndication Format Spec ATOM reference document #2 (tags: Atom xml reference) Sam Ruby: Embedding FOAF in Atom Atom Ref #3 (tags: Atom reference xml) BBC NEWS | Technology | Ask…

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Following on for those poor folk who didn’t know what Eigenvalue meant, it is probably worth pointing out that Redshift is all about things which are accelerating away from you very very fast. I sometimes wonder if we aren’t slaves to bad metaphor…

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How To Install VMware Server On Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) | HowtoForge – Linux Howtos and Tutorials (tags: ubuntu vmware linux howto virtualization) On the discussion of security vulnerabilities “It cannot be too earnestly urged that an acquaintance with real facts will, in the end, be better for all parties.” (tags: security blaze) Master-Keyed Lock…

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Anyone who’s read Interface will realise how amusing this new toy would be, if it works. In the 2008 presidential elecetion, watch out for candidates with earplugs or implants, tied directly to focus groups who are wired with these Emsense things…

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