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Amusing: [www.questia.com] Abstract This article assesses the link between country music and metropolitan suicide rates. Country music is hypothesized to nurture a suicidal mood through its concerns with problems common in the suicidal population, such as marital discord, alcohol abuse, and alienation from work. The results of a multiple regression analysis of 49 metropolitan areas…

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distance travelled: 107 miles start time: 0733 end time: 0910 elapsed time: 97 minutes average speed: 66.2 MPH Not bad.

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Regarding a previous posting, I have this from Tad (Hello Tad!) via Gene: Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 13:26:35 -0800 From: Tad Davis <tad@bbbbbbbb.com> To: Gene Saunders <gtsaunders@aaaaaaaa.com> Subject: Re: Arabic translation It’s likely a flirtatious note for the female customers who come along and glance at the scribblings: حابيبي habibi (my love) appears four…

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A friend of mine who neither blogs nor particularly reads blogs unless prompted, provided the following advice over a couple of e-mails; I thought it may be of interest to some other people. She writes: True confession time: I own dozens of fountain pens. I have them declared on my insurance, in fact. I have…

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Well this seems to be an interesting topic, so I have added a new category; for indexing purposes, here are the links to the original articles. [www.crypticide.com] [www.crypticide.com]

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Well, I’m writing this on a train at Waterloo, waiting for the pull-away homewards after a long day in London; the afternoon has been filled with a rather exciting customer gig that involved 90 minutes travel to the office, 30 minutes of e-mail, 2 hours of meeting and 2 hours of debrief and planning –…

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This is one of those books which every Briton knows exists – being the BP that is suffixed to the name of prettymuch every generic medical compound sold in the UK… …but the funny thing is that I never looked it up before, and bizzarely [www.amazon.co.uk] doesn’t list it; the American site does: [www.amazon.com] British…

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Suzi (the cat) is walking around looking like she’s been in a duel, or a very small knife fight – two diagonal slashes across her nose, from a scrap with another cat. Deep, but being tended and healing. The BMW is now up to 840 miles, and loosening up nicely; over the weekend I did…

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Tim writes: [www.tbray.org] Would it be an oversimplification to say that Podcasting could turn the Net into a great big PVR? …to which I say, “yes”. As oversimplifications go, I suspect that is one. In the UK, we’d possibly also call it a “pseud”. In respect of the proposition: you can’t always find what you’re…

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As I’ve blogged previously, I am a big fan of Banksy – I don’t generally condone graffiti but then I don’t think his work really is graffiti; the humour, style and design lift it a bit higher than mere mindless tagging. Moreover I appreciate his pointed views on (British) politicians: I’ve recently collected a couple…

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Quoth my mate Steve, I was cycling in this morning, as you do, when this big limosine turns up flanked by police motorcycles. They stopped right in front of me and made me stop as well. So, I knocked on the window to tell the person inside what I thought of this and he wound…

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So Jon writes For those not in the know, our friends at Google purchased Keyhole, an ASP which provides real-time satellite imagery. you can zoom in and see street detail just like a real NSA agent. (We don’t get the details the NSA/NRO agents get, but you can grab the idea.) They also have the…

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