Dropsafe

Amazing how you gan get into more pain as you heal; the ribs arestitching into bigger plates and the latter are moving tectonically, and so I’ve been swearing a lot of late. Comfort is improving, but the gaps between comfort are getting worse. Diclofenac is currently my best friend, though it combined with the food…

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Wikipedia It has been reported that veterinary diclofenac use in India has caused a crash of the vulture population,[1] with “major ecological consequences” and a sub-cultural Zoroastrian Parsi “sky burial” crisis.[2] Diclofenac causes kidney failure in vultures that eat treated domestic animals. …so I should avoid being eaten by vultures this week.

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A short catalogue entry, for the sake of getting it down in ASCII: Fractured tibia, just below the plate of the knee joint. It was screwed together in France, and the screws will come out in a couple of years. Apparently it may give me arthritis in later life, but that might happen anyway, and…

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It’s wednesday again, and i’ve been in the Priory for a week. I’m shattered. Today I got wheelchaired upstairs to physiotherapy for a wonderful bath in this big blue motorised side-opening thing; then Mandy arrived and pushed my wheelchair out into the garden for a while, then i spent 45 minutes on the CPM (continuous…

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i ache… am using gprs but it is fiddly to set up. dave walker’s up here helping mewith laptop cabling, but it is a hassle to get non geeks to help, so time online will be limited. big love out to you all for thoughts and mementoes. it makes being stuck in a room so…

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Independent France, the country which invented the philosophy café, has just had another smart idea: the train of thought. From this week, passengers who book by internet on certain long-distance French trains can arrange to sit next to other passengers with similar interests. Would you like to travel from Paris to Marseilles while discussing Nietzsche…

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Makes you think. (Via)

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There exists no Wikipedia page for social media. Needs fixed?

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www.panopticist.com A few months ago I began to notice something unusual about the 24 clock-the timer that appears onscreen at regular intervals throughout each episode. It’s modeled on a standard LED clock, the kind you’ll see on the radio next to your bed or the microwave in your kitchen or inside a ticking rogue nuclear…

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Visual Joke for Aphex Twin fans. (Obligatory Security Angle: check out the audio steganography from one of his albums. Web page includes pictures of cats.)

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Warren Buffet gives away his fortune. A MiniBartLink.

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