• Parental cheat sheet – Hacking your children

    Seattle Times While viewing their [MySpace] profile, note the URL, since she also advises occasionally checking the site alone, as well. She doesn’t see this as violating a teen’s privacy since it’s public information. Okay… so far, so slippery slope… If your teen hasn’t shown you his or her site, one trick is to check…

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  • Russian police mistake rugby match for brawl

    ABC Australia Russians playing a game of amateur rugby have been arrested by police who mistook the match for a mass brawl, local media reported. “We got a call to our control room saying there was a fight involving a lot of people on some waste ground just outside town,” RIA news agency quoted a…

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  • nice kitty. good kitty.

    cat trees bear. maybe it thought it was just a giant mouse? another quality like c/o rob diamond.

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  • Scoble meets Schwartz

    My boss’s boss’s boss meets a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend: scobleizer Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun Microsystems, just dropped me off at the lobby of building 10. So, I’m sitting on the floor near a power outlet and am blogging my experiences. What an enjoyable guy! We walked across the street to a Togos sandwich shop. Little-known trivia,…

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  • cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women

    BBC News Britain’s oldest surviving war veteran has celebrated his 110th birthday at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne. Henry Allingham was presented with a letter of good wishes from the Queen by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown at the five-star seafront hotel. Mr Allingham is the last remaining RAF founder member and the only…

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  • spin dj is a god

    Excellent short video: DJ is a God. Link c/o Bart Blanquart.

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  • Asymmetric Warfare

    BBC News The suicides of three detainees at the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amount to acts of war, the US military says. The camp commander said the two Saudis and a Yemeni were “committed” and had killed themselves in “an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us”. I thought it was meant to…

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  • thought for the day

    Do you remember when Firefox used to be fast ?

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  • unashamedly retro: The Pipettes

    The Pipettes (audio) – try “Pull Shapes”, see what you think.

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  • life update

    It’s sunny and hot in Britain, and has been for several days now; it’s not quite the oppressive sultry heat of the tropics, but it suffices to make everything lazy, including myself and my two cats. This in part explains why most of today has been one long siesta – the rest of the explanation…

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  • Top Ten Playmobil Oddities

    thingamababy Playmobil sells plastic figure play sets for every obtuse playtime fantasy. They are not based on pop culture sources such as movies and television. The poor Playmobil executives must devise original toy ideas on their own. Sometimes they fail. Click the thumbnails for a pop-up enlarged view. continues… My friend Helen will like #9.…

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  • This really does happen…

    …when someone says the f-word, or the s-word – just not the words you expect :- Jackie Danicki I also had a very valuable conversation with Alec last night, which seemed to last hours and touched on everything from friendship to young fogeyism and how to be happy. While this was going on, Antoine was…

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