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UKIP demands apology from Cameron
[news.bbc.co.uk] The UK Independence Party is calling for David Cameron to apologise after he claimed its members were “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists, mostly”. The Conservative leader made the remarks during a phone-in on the London radio station LBC. He said he believed UKIP was “racist” because of some of the things he had heard…
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AcademicSqueaking
Yes, we’ll read it H, but like Jim said… (ObExlpn: ‘H’ is my friend, and an academic criminologist do-gooding lawyer-person. New blogger.)
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November 2008. You heard it here first.
Tony Blair defiantly outlined an agenda to keep him in Downing Street until 2008 as he fought back yesterday against attempts by supporters of Gordon Brown to force him to quit by next year. [www.telegraph.co.uk]
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The Essential Wine-Glass for the Cubicle Generation
Sommelier by Maxim Velcovsky I think these are really cool – the plastic drinking cup is an unremarked design icon and there are thousands of them around water coolers in every office in every company I’ve ever visited. This is a rational progression of form, and it’s marvellous. I totally regret that I’m a klutz…
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Memento Mori
How I love to watch the morn with golden sun that shines, up above to nicely warm these frosty toes of mine! The wind doth taste of bittersweet, Like jasper wine and sugar. I bet it’s blown through others’ feet, like those of… …Caspar Weinberger. Explanation. It’s the only thing I knew about Weinberger. Perhaps…
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Hut 33 – A Bletchley Park Sitcom, BBC Radio 4
Sounds vaguely like “The IT Crowd for the Vera Lynn Era” :- [www.bbc.co.uk] Hut 33 It’s 1941 Britain stands alone. Bletchey Park is crucial in the fight against the German war machine. Labouring in Hut 33, three code-breakers Archie, Toby and Charles struggle with complex ciphers, irritate one another and fail to impress women. Their…
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Eclipse as seen from Space
One for Steve Elliott: [www.nasa.gov] – pretty. Link c/o Rob Diamond.
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The Spider of Doom
[www.thedailywtf.com] Josh Breckman worked for a company that landed a contract to develop a content management system for a fairly large government website. Much of the project involved developing a content management system so that employees would be able to build and maintain the ever-changing content for their site. Because they already had an existing…
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Martin Conquest: Motorbike/trike for the disabled
[www.martinconquest.com] “Our recent launch of The Conquest is the culmination of a three-year dream to provide mobility to disabled former motorcyclists and disabled aspiring motorcyclists. “The Conquest is based on the BMW R-Series motorcycle and is the first mass-produced high performance tricycle available in the UK that can be driven from a wheelchair. The Conquest’s…
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US group wants China ‘spy’ probe – Lenovo laptops
Cybercommies! In our Laptops! [news.bbc.co.uk] A US agency is calling for an official probe into Chinese computer firm Lenovo’s contract to supply 15,000 computers to the US State Department. The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) said it feared the PCs could be fitted with bugging devices to spy on the US government. Lenovo,…
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When Blair will hand over the Premiership to Brown
A little theory of mine: Margaret Thatcher won the election of 4th May 1979 (JD 2443998) Margaret Thatcher resigned on 22nd November 1990 (JD 2448218) Margaret Thatcher was in power for 4220 days. Tony Blair won the election of 2nd May 1997 (JD 2450571) Hypothesis: Tony Blair wants to beat Thatcher’s record. ergo: Tony Blair…