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FillThatHole.org.uk Councils can’t be everywhere, and if they don’t know about a pothole, they can’t fill it in. So if you want to get it repaired, you have to report it. (tags: cycle pothole) The Excellent Adventure Laureen lives on a boat…. 🙂 (tags: friend boat life) ElementalMom Laureen on Birth Activism – needless caesarians,…

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Expanding horizons: BarCamp London: Obscure Mac Apps – Melinda & Martijn links to stuff that was presented at barcamp london – interesting Doc Searls Weblog · The mathematics of legislation Lunacy: The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report…

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Radio Command Dalek at Gadgets.co.uk – Ideal gadgets, gifts and novelties I don’t want one of these for Christmas, or at all – but I rejoice that they exist. The Freecycle Network As mentioned by Cynthia

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I won the CEC “Best Podcast” award for the “Terabyte iPod” presentation presentation! That’s nice, but the prizes are a choice from 1) a Nintendo Wii, 2) Bose QC3 Headphones, or 3) $200 I already have the Bose, and $200 = £100 which is not a lot; so I am inclined to go with the…

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Dopp Juice met at iiw (tags: web2.0 iiw2007b) Deborah Schultz met at iiw / vrm (tags: people web2.0) Imagine a World | Gam’s Blog met at iiw (tags: vrm bea lifefeed) You’re invited to the Delicious Preview dropsafe : IT Futurology and the Terabyte iPod (tags: dropsafe video) How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook…

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For all Billy Joel fans who work in Web2.0 worlds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi4fzvQ6I-o

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Compare: “What you’re losing in the DVD market, you’re not making up on the paid internet side,” says Fishbein. “Instead of 99 cents a song on iTunes, these guys are doing 10 cents a minute for porn.” Contrast: The Mutoscope worked on the same principle as the “flip book.” The individual image frames were conventional…

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Whilst everybody else dives in to (rightly) slam Facebook for what they are doing with advertising – read especially this one for a summary of the issues – I shall eschew the otherwise interesting discussion of how they are destroying peoples presumptions of a conversation and do what any other committed and rightminded Security Geek…

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Quoth Mike Ramchand: One flippant comment on Second Life is, I would like it a lot more if I could shoot people in it. Mmm…

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I could never have written this in a way that the video conveys… which is the whole point, really: Comments are being added on the BlipTV page. Videos Referenced: Project Looking Glass (2003) (skip the first bit) 100 Mirrored Filesystems in 5 Minutes CSI:Munich ZFS Saves The World Defence in Depth IT Futurology and the…

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When I purchased by Brompton, I skipped the option of hub-dynamos and other toys, taking the position that what is on the bike must be carried, whereas battery lighting is incrementally upgradable and may be removed in summer. In short: less weight to carry, less to go wrong, and batteries can be bought at any…

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Quoi? From a report of last weekend’s BarCamp: Simon Willison: have you tried using Flash cookies? — doesn’t go away when clear browser cookies, also cross-browser Don’t go away? – that’s bad. Can someone confirm this?

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