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If you’re a long-distance biker and are looking to do some high-level route planning, you want maps. Lots of maps. Big maps. Maps you can download and print-out or use Photoshop, Paint or GIMP to scribble all over. The sort of maps you see on blogs like [theadventuresofboz.blogspot.com] [www.geocities.com] [www.crypticide.com] In fact, you want the…

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Worth a read: Each week the Magazine picks out snippets from the news, and compiles them into 10 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Week. Here’s an end of year almanac. 1. The UK’s first mobile phone call was made 20 years ago this year, when Ernie Wise rang the Vodafone head office, which…

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Construction of a Semi-Replica RCA Theremin.

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This is how I did it, and it seems to (now) be a popular technique: You can work out most of it from the pictures. I removed the windscreen to ease assembly but also because I was replacing it at the time. The mounting was inspired by discussion at [www.ukgser.com] and was tested on a…

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[news.bbc.co.uk] Businessman wins e-mail spam case A businessman has won what is believed to be the first victory of its kind by claiming damages from a company which sent him e-mail spam. Nigel Roberts, who lives in Alderney in the Channel Islands, took action against Media Logistics UK over junk e-mails in his personal account.…

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Somehow after what I saw and learned this summer, the notion that Swedes like to toast straw goats does not surprise me… [www.usatoday.com] STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) – Vandals set light to a giant straw goat Saturday night in a central Swedish town, police said, an event that has happened so frequently it has almost become…

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I’m not much of a memaholic, but I got this from Geoff and it’s reasonably cute. For the benefit of cut-n-pasters: Four jobs you’ve had in your life: Four movies you could watch over and over: Four places you’ve lived: Four TV shows you love/d to watch: Four places you’ve been on vacation: Four websites…

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[www.schneier.com] The Security Threat of Unchecked Presidential Power This past Thursday, the New York Times exposed the most significant violation of federal surveillance law in the post-Watergate era. President Bush secretly authorized the National Security Agency to engage in domestic spying, wiretapping thousands of Americans and bypassing the legal procedures regulating this activity. This isn’t…

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Sometime in late 2002 I took-up my camcorder to shoot a short security training video, inspired by my experience running around as an interviewee for a security-themed BBC/Open University TV programme. It was the first time I’d tried anything like this, and I had no idea about script, about style, about lighting, and about editing.…

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We’ve had Long Way Round and The Motorcycle Diaries, and it looks like Hollywood has identified a taste for bikes and adventure and is capitalising with The World’s Fastest Indian: IMDB: In `60s New Zealand, at the bottom of the world, Burt Munro takes a 1920 Indian motorcycle and, delightfully without resources other than his…

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Yay! By this evening, winter will be half-over and the days will begin to lengthen in the northern hemisphere once more! Biking weather is coming back!

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[www.channelregister.co.uk] EU slaps import duty on large LCD screens Puts squeeze on 19 inches plus The EU plans to impose a 14 per cent import duty on imports of larger LCD screens, leading pundits to forecast a huge hike in sticker prices. Dutch trade organisation ICT Office believes the tariff will cost its members “millions”.…

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