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May be of use to some folk I know: http://www.winecruzer.com/

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Quote: DAVID OWENS, NSW ASSISTANT POLICE COMMISSIONER: I’m not embarrassed at all. What I am is I’m very angry that such a stunt like this would be pulled. We have 21 world leaders here. Whilst I enjoy, like everyone else, a good laugh, this isn’t funny. Context: The APEC conference is a big deal in…

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…and did it. [Update: broke the 40mph barrier]

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I sent the Twitter-folk: A Really Simple Improvement To Your User Interface I had an idea. I’d like a small “reply” button next to every tweet, that pre-populates my “What am I doing” text-input box with “<at-symbol>USERNAME<space-or-colon>” – ie: the name of the person who wrote whatever tweet I clicked on. This will save on…

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6979292.stm Nepal’s state-run airline has confirmed that it sacrificed two goats to appease a Hindu god, following technical problems with one of its aircraft. Nepal Airlines said the animals were slaughtered in front of the plane – a Boeing 757 – at Kathmandu airport. The offering was made to Akash Bhairab, the Hindu god of…

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Solaris 10 on a SPARCstation-1

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Microsoft FUD Watch: OOXML Edition In all my years working as a journalist, I’ve never seen any technology company spin information the way Microsoft did today. The press release on OOXML ratification is a blueprint for spinning semantics, and the stringing together of truths and half-truths to seemingly make the outcome of one event something…

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I have a new trike speed record: …39.0mph, up from 34mph; this is due to the new front Stelvio tyres, the lowered riding position, a modest amount of tuning, and a set of shorts which don’t act like parachute air-brakes. Next stop 40mph; and then I’ll make a fairing…

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rofl: c|net getting lazy with clip art – from ThinGuy

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One of the things I love about Peter is the way he can look sideways at prettymuch anything, and will come up with an observation so stunning you can’t comprehend why nobody really noticed it before… The only thing he neglected to include from this posting is the legend “Powered by Microsoft”; perhaps they should…

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…then you’ll probably like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjeh6P4sRfw Music video for “Elephant Gun” from Beirut’s Lon Gisland EP. Mustachioed debauchery set to a ukulele-accordion waltz. Via Ze.

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Since ISO may be going down the plughole – swept along by its deadly embrace with its petitioners – I would suggest we go ask the SI folk to whip up a new metric for bureaucratic corruption: call it the ‘soft’ and define it as the one million times the amount of money necessary to…

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