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If you’re an American and are familiar with the workings of your own Government – Congress, Senate, etc – and are interested enough to see a contrast, you’ll be amazed to watch a representative sample of behaviour in the British House of Commons: BBC RealPlayer video of today’s Prime Minister’s Questions. Update: FIXED It’s 30…

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Wow. [antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov] via [antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov]

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It seems that Blosxom suffers a memory hotspot, so I’m paring-down the article list until I can do some remediation. This drops the core memory footprint from 20 to 6Mb.

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…but then, she was a nurse, and I was having an ECG done. I have a rest heartbeat rate of between 56 and 60, offset by blood pressure at the high end of the normal range. I’m basically normal. Hooray. However I now have several crop-circles on my chest. Might as well take the rest…

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Via [www.livejournal.com] and [www.apple.com] I learned that Meatloaf‘s surname is Aday It may be that this really is his given surname, but that didn’t stop me reflexively wondering whether his sister might be Drinka Pintamilk.

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Is this for real? I could imagine quite a few lawsuits hitting any ISP who tried this and managed to block access to virus updates and suchlike services… BellSouth: Let Us Blackmail Web Sites BellSouth has come up with a plan that would even make Tony Soprano blush: It wants to charge Web sites extortion…

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Hundreds of gay couples are preparing to form civil partnerships in the coming weeks as the law changes after decades of campaigning. At least 1,200 ceremonies are confirmed as being scheduled already, according to figures from councils compiled by the BBC News website. Councils are preparing for the first ceremonies, with couples permitted to register…

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So, belief brings people together? In Geneva diplomats from the 192 countries which have signed the Geneva conventions are meeting to discuss a third emblem for the international Red Cross. Red Cross officials hope approval of a third emblem will finally put an end to decades of controversy over the issue. At the moment, the…

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How Swearing Works We all know what “bad words” are. Unlike most other language rules, we learn about swearwords and how to use them without any real study or classroom instruction. Even very young children know which words are naughty, although they don’t always know exactly what those words mean. But swearwords aren’t quite as…

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This is impressive – Discovery Channel visiting Sweden, where a guy has converted a Honda Goldwing to act as a breakdown tow truck. It’s a neat hack. [www.exn.ca] (WMV Video)

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I received: From: genco@[……..] Subject: Copyright issues of an image… Date: 2 December 2005 14:56:22 GMT Dear Mr Muffett, I am working for a publishing house in Turkey and I am writing to you on behalf of the company. We are willing to use one of the images you used on your blog as the…

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