Dropsafe

[news.bbc.co.uk] It is a question a growing number of bank customers are asking themselves as they access their accounts online or withdraw cash from an ATM. The murky world of internet fraud has cast a shadow over online banking, which promised a revolution in the way we manage our money, but has since fallen victim…

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[dorkfest.org.uk]

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[www.mininova.org]

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I today had cause to send out the following e-mail: [ With regard to e-mail composition ] Graphic signatures are evil and should be avoided. HTML text bodies are evil and should be avoided. Replication of body in HTML and Text is evil and should be avoided. …not least for reasons of accessability for the…

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Wonderful read: [enjoyment.independent.co.uk] To its detractors – and there are many – it’s the brand that refuses to die. An anachronism. An unwelcome, unappetising reminder of wartime austerity. Designed to be spread thinly on slices of wholesome, hard-earned bread, it evokes the pre-consumer age, when larders were bare and housewives had to make a little…

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[en.wikipedia.org] It seems to be inherent in human nature, but most particularly in the male members of the species, to enjoy watching an everyday object or creature simply explode in the most comical way imaginable, as in a real-life situation, the probability of this type of event actually occurring is incredibly low.

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A back-to-back tandem recumbent trike: [en.wikipedia.org]

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http://www.google.com/mars – following on from http://moon.google.com.

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Via [found.pale.org] :- [declanbutler.info] Cat flu – ‘aaargh plop’, and next-generation GIS I’ve a short article in Nature tonight summarising the situation on H5N1 and cats. I first raised this issue in an article a month back, before the first cases of cat infections in Germany and Austria. Thought you might enjoy this excerpt. “But…

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Orthograffiti from acb

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[bowstreetrunner.blogspot.com] Brian’s Brief Encounters has now been taken down, and I’ll be removing the link and adding Blue’s and Two’s link when I get round to updating the template, which should be tomorrow. For those who are wandering why these blogs are going, it is because supervision, Complaints & Discipline/Internal Affairs, or both, are catching…

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[news.bbc.co.uk] Many organisations are now having to consider how they deal with employees who blog about their work, and one of the most recent to take up the challenge is the Metropolitan Police. But new guidelines issued by the Met have caused some bloggers to wonder if their weblogs could cost them their jobs. Blogger…

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