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No man is an Eland :- Inspired by JP on identity.

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Knock me over with a feather; compare this with the NoKA debacle: slashdot “Last week, Starbucks placed a video on YouTube responding to a video posted by the Oxfam Charity. The Oxfam video was launched in conjunction with ‘Starbucks Day of Action,’ held December 16th, when activists visited Starbucks locations across the world in protest…

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If posting has dropped a bit this week, in my spare time I am trying to read blogs.sun.com – ALL of it; since I posted Atom Heart Mother on the web I thought I should try and make use of it, so am trying to read the whole thing. 14 days of articles means 1146…

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This verges between the hilarious and the tragic – WMV only, sorry: From: Geoff Arnold Subject: Coefficient of friction….. From Portland, OR today. Using tinyurl to avoid the line-wrapping problem. http://tinyurl.com/yt76ar Sorry that it’s WindowsMedia, but that’s how it was sent to me.

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What the hey, it’s friday. I got pointed at this from somewhere… (Via) Monkey Experiment Proves Corporate Policy Process Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to…

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I like geocaching; I don’t do much, but it’s a nice excuse to get out and explore, and a bit more amusing, novel and romantic to find items which have traveled around the world one hop at a time. Hence I am amused by the heavy-handedness, perhaps somewhat deserved but overly weighty, displayed by the…

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Today’s APOD:- The brightest comet in decades is unexpectedly now visible. The most optimistic predictions have Comet McNaught (C/2006 P1) shortly becoming one of the brightest comets of the past century. For the next few days, its short tail and bright coma can be spotted with the unaided eye close to the Sun and near…

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building a network of generators and masts is easier than laying mile after mile of tarmac in an area known for man eating predators “Mmm mmm! They’re delicious, these Bar-B-Q Flavoured Lions! Great reception round here, innit? Shoddy road, though.”

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Oh yeah, I remember – organised crime, terrorism, consumer profiling, money laundering, child pornography, etc, etc ; I guess they don’t have any of that in Kenya. Or maybe they just don’t have the FSA: BBC News Cash culture Soon you will even be able to pay for a trip by Matutu by mobile phone.…

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I may actually subscribe to the “what’s new” service; the paranoia levels change fo infrequently as to be meaningless – we’re still at the “second-highest” level and have been so for months, at worst they’ll crank it up when some public event is about to happen, or retrospectively after a bomb goes off, so where’s…

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…then you may or may not be able to reach me; my Dad has fallen at home and broken his hip joint. He’s comfortable as you can be in this condition, reportedly singing Flanders and Swann songs with my sister Mandy who ferried him into hospital. The oddity is that whist I was in hospital…

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