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Polished and proofed a pair of made-to-order motorbike boots that I calculated have survived 49,000 miles so-far. Found out that not one, but two ex-colleagues / mates are serious Divine Comedy fans, … and discovered the blog of the second. Harvested my garden rhubarb… and with it made an aromatic, sweet and slightly unusual rhubarb…

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39Mb video, 320×240, shot at 60fps for slow-motion playback Wallingford Unicycle Club, Oxfordshire, UK. Situated between Reading and Oxford, with weekly meetings for young and… less young. Contact details are posted on the clubs page at www.unicycle.org.uk. (new!) Club maillist & website at Yahoo Groups.

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A rare link from Gene: bluegrassreport BluegrassReport.org Being BLOCKED By State Government [**Lots of updates throughout the day, so check below frequently**] I’ve gotten a handful of e-mails this morning already that BluegrassReport.org has apparently been blocked to state computers by the Commonwealth Office of Technology. Readers in three different cabinets have e-mailed to tell…

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Whilst shaving this morning I caught a snippet of the Today show on Radio4, and was both amused and appalled. The thesis of the segment – delivered by Lord Maurice Saatchi – was that TV advertising was “soon to be dead” from the business challenge of the “continuous partial attention” of our youth, bundled-up with…

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This is just so true. If you’ve ever been on a call with a typical IT corporate marketing team, you’ll recognise it all. video.google.com Another quality BartLink(TM).

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Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog O THE SWETE DAYES of somer are wel vpon us nowe, and longen foolke to heare of superheroes, and storyes of aventure, of menne and womene wyth capes and funnye maskes who haue poweres. Ywis, ich do awaite with grete anticipacioun the openynge daye of “Super-manne Returneth,” and ich was…

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jenepherre writes: I heard from Jim Simak […] that he’s moving back to London in January to start pre-production on Long Way Down. When he got the formal invite to join the team again, he actually had to think about it for a while before saying yes. He’s single and lives in LA right now,…

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A little old, but interesting. I stumbled across this on Flickr: ATM fraud in action at Tesco Created by bowbrick. I helped to pull this entirely convincing card skimming false front from an ATM at Tesco in Radlett. Its appearance was perfect in every way – we sussed it out purely because it looked different.…

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Darren Moffat has been crying-out for someone to create this diagram: linked from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_%28terminology%29

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I have no idea how to explain this web page, from which I have received several dozen hits in the past couple of weeks: http://www.banic-manager.lunarpages.com/~system7/passwordc.html Authors: alex muffett – cracked password program author (lib’l?) brian hatch of Hacking Exposed (liberal?) not yet not yet I remember (and have commented upon) apparent attempts by some companies…

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Then: wikipedia Background U.S. law distinguishes between two types of action figures for determining tariffs: dolls, which are defined to include human figures, and toys, which include “nonhuman creatures”. Because duties on dolls were higher than on toys, Marvel Comics subsidiary Toy Biz argued before the U.S. Court of International Trade, that their action figures…

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Independent Sir Clive Sinclair is about to take to the roads again, two decades after his electric tricycle the C5 flopped so spectacularly. The Cambridge inventor will usher in what he describes as a new era in personal transport next month when he unveils his latest product – the world’s lightest portable bike. Weighing in…

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