Dropsafe

A colleague [blogs.sun.com] pointed me to a photo of this bridge between Sweden and Denmark. It takes a moment to work out what’s going on, and then you wonder at at how clever and elegant it is and then – if you are the sort of person that I am – you note… how easy…

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there are quite a few of these around, but this one is rather impressive: [www.levenez.com]

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FilmFour earlier this year screened (if I remember right) a fairly recent Japanese movie — a love story movie set in the postwar period with lots of atmospheric, almost film noir lighting, formal clothing, and repressed desire. For those of a British bent it was a sort of Brief Encounter-ish tale, but with an unexpected…

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Well I know where I am going to be next monday night: [www.skyone.co.uk] Maybe it’ll even make bikers respectable…

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The question nobody is asking: what is the market value of software that costs nothing to download and use? [linux.slashdot.org] …eat your heart out, Epimenides.

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For those who like to analyse geek environments from the perspective of “how highly effective geeks do their work” – may I strongly recommend watching Danny O’Brien’s LifeHacks video, as-is available for download from the NotCon04 archive website. The analysis and “ticklist” of habits that seem common to various net.notables somehow seems to reflect my…

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This is a clipping from a maillist I am on, pursuant to someone’s question about how to [I/other people] “blog”? I suspect that my response is mildly heretical as far as some people will be concerned, but nonetheless they may amuse some… My response to the question below probably also illuminates why I choose to…

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[ulterior.razorhead.co.uk] – i have just seen it. praise the cillit bang!

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[blogs.sun.com] points to [www.cynicalbastards.com] which yields: http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/ Wank factor of 0.58 This level is classified as low. …and so I fed a few other popular websites at random and it produced the following numbers: www.bbc.co.uk 0.89 www.sun.com 2.56 www.redhat.com 3.07 www.microsoft.com 5.12 www.ibm.com 8.12 I wish I knew the metric by which it is measuring,…

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[www.wired.com] extract: Claire Brooks, editor of L Style Report, a trend-tracking newsletter, said: “It’s no longer particularly hip to own an iPod, but it’s definitely not passé either. The iPod has moved from hip accessory to lifestyle classic almost immediately, which is something very few brands are able to do, and certainly none of the…

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[story.news.yahoo.com] TROY, N.Y. – Amid the torrent of jabber in Internet chat rooms – flirting by QTpie and BoogieBoy, arguments about politics and horror flicks – are terrorists plotting their next move? The government certainly isn’t discounting the possibility. It’s taking the idea seriously enough to fund a yearlong study on chat room surveillance under…

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eek! [www.techworld.com]

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