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In an indescribable way it was a nice advert, so it definitely deserves a spoof. (Via)

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Independent Marilyn Monroe would have turned 80 on 1 June this year. It’s an anniversary that raises intriguing questions… I’m having a bit of a Douglas Adams Tense Moment – not this sort of Douglas Adams Tense Moment, but more a Dr Dan Streetmentioner’s Time Traveller’s Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations moment. The above describes…

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Useless fact for today: apparently all these SciFi authors with their ‘FTL drives‘ have been using the wrong word all this time; they should be using ‘superluminal’ (Wikipedia). The former wording is far more common than the latter, but then the drives are nonexistent, so that’s understandable; if you’ve ever seen any of the pre-sound-barrier-breakage…

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Independent Griffith-Jones was visibly flummoxed. “I thought I had lived my life under a misapprehension as to the meaning of the world ‘puritanical,’” he said. “Will you help me?” “Yes,” said Hoggart kindly. “In England today and for a long time the word ‘puritanical’ has been extended to mean someone who is against anything which…

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The BBC write: The conman, it seems, is an endangered species. Gone is the sharp-suited, debonair, sliver-tongued fraudster who’d charm his way to a personal fortune. In his place: countless thousands hunched over computers, stealing bank details and exploiting technological weakness – without witnesses, and often for hire. “There’s none of what we used to…

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…delivered by my good friend Helen The Criminologist: Manchester Metropolitan University Lecture by HELEN CODD Tuesday 9th May 12pm midday (ASW, room TBA). All welcome. Helen Codd, Lancashire Law School, UCLAN “The Slippery Slope to Sperm Smuggling:Prisoners’ Families, Artificial Insemination and Human Rights” At the invitation of the Gender and Sexuality Research Centre, and the…

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I just gutted a disk drive, and some statistics are as follows: It’s a Seagate ST336607LC – a 36Gb disk – containing a single platter, with (obviously) two faces, top and bottom. There is a hole in the middle of the platter, where the motor drive / axle resides. $pi = 3.14159265358979; # constant $nfaces…

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Independent If the sudden outbreak of warm weather has persuaded you to dig out your bike from the back of the garage – or even to invest in a new machine – have you thought about security? Incidents of bike theft have increased by almost 10 per cent a year over the past five years,…

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I have a colleague – Chris the mad cyclist – who reads DropSafe via BlogLines. He tells me that viewing the RSS feed via BlogLines does not resolve the relative URLs in the links so that they link through to www.crypticide.com. Could someone test this for me please? Here is a direct link: direct Here…

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Technology linked to depression, and RF gives you cancer. This one should run for a while, get out your tin hats, boys and girls. Independent Electronic smog Invisible “smog”, created by the electricity that powers our civilisation, is giving children cancer, causing miscarriages and suicides and making some people allergic to modern life, new scientific…

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