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Ananova Police in Poland have launched a nationwide hunt for a man who farted loudly when asked what he thought of the president. Hubert Hoffman, 45, was charged with “contempt for the office of the head of state” for his actions after he was stopped by police in a routine check at a Warsaw railway…

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Time for a general purpose update: First me: the repair continues, the ribs are the big nuisance because i keep recracking them, like the three or four that went last night when I tried to lie down on the carpet in front of the fireplace. There was a nasty cracking sensation from my left side,…

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So how long would your PC work, if you started pulling components off the Mobo at random? And would it work better? … Pete Jenkins When I arrived at my folks house I noticed a DVD player yanked out of their TV stand sat on the floor. “It’s Alice’s and its broken” I was told…

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Everyone please do me a favour and add a comment to this posting when you hear “Eigenvector” used by someone who does not know what the word means. I did three years of Astrophysics, and I didn’t do it to let business-management folk get away with abusing my vocabulary: Eigenvector In linear algebra, the eigenvectors…

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The Cycle Show, ExCeL, Docklands. 6-8 October (Public) ie: This weekend upcoming. Who’s going, and when?

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Things not to do together #14567: Listen to the Verdi’s Anvil Chorus while doing the ironing. The water in the iron goes everywhere and you burn your shirts. (Via)

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Wow, someone finally spotted that. Took bloody long enough. Independent Hotels make ‘extortionate’ charges for wi-fi access Once, it was the great telephone rip-off, when hotels charged business travellers huge amounts for calls made from their room. Now, according to a new guide, they have found a fresh way of fleecing guests – by adding…

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Gene Saunders keeps sending me interesting and vaguely security-related links, so it’s probably a good time to post a batch of them: 🙂 Is it possible to be identified by your ‘clickprint’? [yes, but will it stand up in court? – ed] RFID Teen with medical microchip dies in Florida Got ATM?

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Adriana sent me a link to a YouTube video for the Free Hugs Campaign; their website is currently swamped, but I did a little reading around the edges: SMH The man behind the latest YouTube sensation has spoken out for the first time about his global cuddling controversy. Serial hugger Juan Mann describes the free…

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Steve Usher Statistical nightmare On BBC Breakfast News just now they were talking about a new report on mental health provision. The presenter, Suzannah Reid, went through a number of “damning” statistics in an incredulous manner. Included in the list was this gem: “46% of health trusts are below average performance.” Hmmm…. So, 4% more…

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One for Simon: bianchi The Models Four Racing bicycles, three MTBs and one Street Bike. A SINGLE colour solo: RED. The names, taken from the motorcycling world past and present, are sure to conquer even the less attentive consumer: FACTORY, FACTORY 900, FACTORY 900R, FACTORY 900XR for the racing bikes. Factory as the name of…

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Stop for a moment. You should look at this photograph: APOD Explanation: What’s that pale blue dot in this image taken from Saturn? Earth. The robotic Cassini spacecraft looked back toward its old home world earlier this month as it orbited Saturn. Using Saturn itself to block the bright Sun, Cassini imaged a faint dot…

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