Dropsafe

Chris the Mad Cyclist writes: Thank you Auntie. Doctor Who at is finest and as many have asked for, the return of the cliff hanger. Fabulous. I concur; I believe they overdid the fart-jokes, but I am well chuffed at the new Dr Who. Kudos to the writers and Chris Eccleston and (I’ve gotta say…

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Since Katz requested it, here’s an old posting from October 2002 in a blog that I’ve not put up on the archive yet: Culled from and/or contributed to http://www.ntk.net/ Morwenstowe NSA Listening Station [link] Menwith Hill NSA Listening Station [link] Chicksands DF station [link] Aldermaston Nuclear Weapons Research Establishment [link] Fylingdales AEW Station [link] Maiden…

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Dan cites it, Scott coined it, but I have to admit to mentally cringing every time I hear someone inside Sun talk about FooTone, ThisTone, ThatTone… It took me ages to work out what the hell was behind the terminology. It seems almost that there is some sort of mythos about telephone “dialtone” in the…

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How much iron is there in the haemoglobin in your blood? Like, if you drained 8 pints of blood and refined it into iron?

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Damn! I keep on getting these invitations to bogus conferences and it never struck me to just send them a spoof paper: An MIT student has had a paper consisting of computer-generated gibberish accepted by technology conference WMSCI. The pretentious gathering bills itself as “an international forum where researchers and practitioners examine Systemics, Cybernetics and…

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From CNN: WASHINGTON (CNN) — There’s an old saying that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts its boots on. Let it be known that mistakes can travel just as fast — and just as far. Take the case of Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-California, who at a hearing on Capitol…

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groom lake, aka: “dreamland” / “area 51” [maps.google.com] (thanks jim) aforementioned nuclear test site [maps.google.com] (note tidy grid of detonations, and the really big one at [maps.google.com])

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meteor crater [maps.google.com] trinity test site [maps.google.com]

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Clip from bullet, courtest of jerry: Jander: using maps.google.com you can see the a-bomb test site in nevada Jander: if you go to maps.google.com, click the satellite link, then search for “rachel nevada desert” – then pan the window S/W of where you end up – there’s a round white dried up lake, then futher…

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Apparently my blog is worth 13,000 blogshares. dollars. monopoly money. whatever. [www.blogshares.com] Now if only I could monetise that. 😎

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First time I have seen one based in the UK: Sender: jthornton.esq@web.de Organization: [freemail.web.de] Subject: ESTATES OF LATE SIR DENIS THATCHER (BARON) From: John Thornton Esq Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:51:39 +0100 To: jthornton.esq@web.de Mark, Thornton & Lewis LLP Copper Court, Phoenix Way, Enterprise Park, Swansea SA7 9EH London. Fax: +44-870-121-8785 Alternative email: thorntonandlewis@katamail.com…

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So Simon Phipps points us at the blogs.sun.com “extrasolar planet” (my term) which like PlanetSun seeks to provide an aggregation for those Sun bloggers who choose not to avail themselves of blogs.sun.com for whatever reason. The strange thing is: although I am cited as the #12 blogger via Technorati linkage – I am happy to…

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