Dropsafe

If some links are broken over the next few days, please don’t be surprised; I am shuffling some files around.

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[news.bbc.co.uk] An anonymous blog by a young woman in war-torn Iraq has been longlisted for BBC Four’s Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Baghdad Burning, a first-hand account written under the pseudonym Riverbend, is one of 19 books in contention.

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The year: 2006 “To avoid falling victim, Microsoft urged users to avoid websites they did not trust and to refrain from opening attachments on e-mail messages from unknown senders.” <bwahahahahahahaha> <giggle> <snurf> <hahahaha> “in this day and age, what on earth are they thinking? why do people put up with this sort of nonsense? when…

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…so there’s a flyer through my door saying: WHICH DO YOU FIND MORE OFFENSIVE? A cartoon of Muhammad with a bomb for a turban, or… Muslim demonstrators calling for terrorist attacks on Europe and the ‘extermination’ of non-Muslims. Blah, blah, blah, British National Party, blah blah Winston Churchill blah blah, blah huge gulf between the…

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Sad. [www.usatoday.com]

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So I opened the toolshed yesterday, took everythig out, sorted it and trashed the unnecessary stuff that had been hanging around for far too long, washed-out the shed and put everything back. In the process I opened one small, grubby, otherwise unremarkable cardboard box, and therein rediscovered a selection of books – most of which…

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[www.whitehouse.org]

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I was just watching my logs, and the following trio of events came in over a period of two seconds: 1143195321 64.151.75.252 GET /dropsafe/articles/news/post20050809161409.comments PEAR HTTP_Request class ( [pear.php.net] ) 1143195322 66.97.174.196 POST /dropsafe/articles/news/post20050809161409.comments Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; MyIE2; Maxthon) 1143195322 64.151.75.252 GET /dropsafe/articles/news/post20050809161409.comments PEAR HTTP_Request class ( [pear.php.net] ) …so the…

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Paint your PCB on a wall, mask it and paint over it, strip the mask and use magnets to attach circuitry to the image: [youtube.com]

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…so cue-up the Green Day because from Minnesota comes :- Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority, according to new U of M study MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (3/20/2006) — Americans increasing acceptance of religious diversity doesnt extend to those who dont believe in a god, according to a national survey by researchers in the…

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Photo by Steve, as described on monday:- …what they alas have created is a moon-faced overly-made-up-slapper sitting painfully atop a 2″ diameter steel pole. …and it looks even worse at eye-level, I assure you.

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Mailed to me by Geoff via [www.boingboing.net] :- On the Make blog, Phil Torrone recaps Modern Marvels’ top 25 inventions of 2006. Shown here: Matthew C. Grossman’s “Shift Bicycle,” designed to teach kids how to ride a two wheeler. As the tricycle picks up speed, the rear wheels get closer together, until they merge into…

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