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Evil. Amusing. http://www.cosmicrealms.com/coolness/movies/outpost_gerbils.avi From Bart.

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Go see today’s APOD: [antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov] – well worth it.

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I just took a look at the Inspired Cycle Engineering web page and it’s brill! Their “off the peg” Q, S and T range now folds-down and separates for easy transport: My XL is not going to be a folding bike, but then mine won’t need to be transported very often. In any respect this…

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Remember these guys about whom I reported in January’05? Well it sounds like they got their series – AND that BMW-UK got to them, according to the inestimable Mike Werner It looks like the English BBC TV are getting ready for a food fight ! The USA has got Biker Billy {link} on his Harley,…

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This is interesting in so many ways – the presumption, the commentary, that so many companies are embracing open-source, protectionist opportunities, the opportunities for conspiracy-theories… …in fact I suspect this will just end up being a big money-sink. Read it properly as [news.zdnet.com] where you get the benefit of the linkage Homeland Security helps secure…

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The Presidential Prayer Team has urged us to: “Pray for the President as he seeks wisdom on how to legally codify the definition of marriage. Pray that it will be according to biblical principles. With many forces insisting on variant definitions of marriage, pray that God’s Word and His standards will be honored by our…

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An intriguing read: [www.slate.com] Starbucks Economics Solving the mystery of the elusive “short” cappuccino. By Tim Harford […] The difficulty is that if some of your products are cheap, you may lose money from customers who would willingly have paid more. So, businesses try to discourage their more lavish customers from trading down by making…

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If so, then you want Synergy2 (so long as you are on a secure network) – it works like the classic X2X and although the config file syntax is a little baroque – all symbolic names and so forth – it supports cut-n-paste and overall seems to do a good job. Plus it gives you…

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Being somewhat of the “just because we can do it doesn’t necessarily mean that we should do it” camp, I am mildly disconcerted by the following: [news.bbc.co.uk] Scientists in Taiwan say they have bred three pigs that glow in the dark. They claim that while other researchers have bred partly fluorescent pigs, theirs are the…

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This bit of corporate politics has been passed around as internal folklore for years – more than a decade, even. In some ways it’s sad to see it published. It used to be nice to have a little secret.

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Via Geoff, a pair of fluffy 1D20 for your mirror. Shouldn’t they be pink though? And with a sunshade band across the top, spelling out SHARON — GANDALF?

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