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According to my “Dossier Transfusionnel”, I have: O NEGATIVE Phenotype Rhesus: C- E- c+ e+ RH: -1, -2, -3, 4, 5, K-1 Kell – KEL: -1 …so I’m O-negative which I knew already, but I’ve been flicking through the relevant Wikipedia article and cannot work out which of the series of numbers corresponds to what…

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I like diesels, and this sounds neat. The company website is www.trident-vehicles.co.uk if you want a look at the thing. Independent Supercars are all about statistics, from the obscene asking price through to the terrifying top speed and the untenable miles per gallon. They give the greenies and the pinko car-hating lobby loads of reasons…

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I’ve been at Sun 14 years – almost precisely – and today had reason to go trawling through some old filestore, wherein I ran into this gem – the announcement of http://www.sun.com/ I mean, like, the real annoucement. The first time it went live and was announced to the public. On my 26th birthday, to…

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Sometimes national stereotypes can be accurate:

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boingboing The US has banned importation of icky Australian delicacy Vegemite (a brown gunky spread that is simultaneously delicious and grody), enraging Aussie expats in the US, who require a steady supply of Vegemite in order to remain functional. The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains folate, which in the US can be added…

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2kT detonation on Olympic Stadium (map) 2kT on Nelson’s Column I think I’ll be out of the country.

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BBC News Poaching has brought the hippopotamus population in Democratic Republic of Congo to within a few months of extinction, wildlife experts say. Researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) say the population has halved in the last two weeks. They say the Mai Mai militia has set up camp in Virunga National Park…

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Reuters reuted it like this: reuters ALMATY (Reuters) – The Kazakhstan central bank has misspelled the word “bank” on its new notes, officials said on Wednesday. The bank plans to put the misprinted notes — worth 2,000 tenge (8 pounds) and 5,000-tenge — into circulation in November and then gradually withdraw them to correct the…

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UK academic security-folk are all of a flutter because the Home Office have published a Code of Practice for “takedown notices”. If like me you’ve only been paying scant attention: the Terrorism Act of 2006 enables a police constable to notify an organisation – viz: a University, a Company, or failing that the company’s ISP…

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mysanantonio Seven of the 15 seats on the State Board of Education are up for election this fall. Two of those districts encompass a portion of Bexar County. […biting synopses of the failures of all candidates, elided; continues…] It is unfortunate for the school children in this state that these very important races did not…

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timesnews.typepad.com Are you creative, adaptable, ambitious and resourceful? Do you have an iron grip on the Dewey Decimal System? Are you eligible for US government secret clearance? Then we might have found the job for you: running the “Detainee Library” at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. continues… (Via) from (Via)

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The 10 megapixel, titanium-shelled IXUS 900 arrived; first impressions are: my god, that’s lightweight compared to the old 400. Some sort of actual review will come when I can provide worthwhile feedback, but in the meantime here’s a superfine full-size picture for all you cat fans out there… Buster, 5Mb JPEG

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