Dropsafe

I’ve not tried this yet, because i only have two macs, one being a laptop and the other not requiring a high-speed interconnect; but i may give it a go some time. [www.macosxhints.com] Network Machines via FireWire If you need to connect two Macs running Panther, but you don’t have an Ethernet cable handy, don’t…

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The Today Programme on Radio 4 had the second of two items regarding slow food, featuring the progress of a piece of Pork slow-cooked in vacuum-pack for 72hrs at The Fat Duck, a restaurant in Bray near Maidenhead owned by Michelin-starred chef Heston Blumenthal. The items include interviews with other slow-food pundits and related suchlike.…

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…the White House does not have an RSS feed. [www.whitehouse.gov] I daresay some blognazis I know would consider this to be the nadir of uncoolness.

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maybe a place to stay, next time i go to berlin: [www.propeller-island.com] See also [www.propeller-island.com] [www.propeller-island.com] [www.propeller-island.com]

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[news.bbc.co.uk] check the caption

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rollright stones vandalised [news.bbc.co.uk] there are some truly stupid people in this world. oh wait! maybe it was terrorists! Paint-wielding vandals may have caused irreparable damage to an ancient stone circle in what is thought to be an April Fools Day prank. The Rollright Stones on the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border have been daubed in yellow gloss…

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Got from Slashdot: [www.hpl.hp.com] Spontaneous, unguarded, fleeting — they’re often the moments in our lives we most want to photograph. But these moments are also those we frequently miss — gone before we could reach for a camera. That’s the thought driving a research project called Casual Photography, now running at HP Labs Bristol, UK,…

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Why Sun threw in the towel in Mankind vs. Microsoft Well TheRegister don’t seem to hate Sun, at least…. [www.theregister.co.uk] Principles are fine things to have, but only if you can afford them. With its stock declared a ‘junk bond’ and finishing a terrible quarter, Silicon Valley’s leading Microsoft antagonist Sun Microsystems has now decided…

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Well, James Gosling [today.java.net] says that he now has a RSS aggregator that talks, so the opportunity to make it swear at him is too good to miss. Pee! Po! Belly! Bum! Drawers!

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doing now: watching a documentary about indira gandhi just ate: a poptart. just done: set up the dehumidifier in the kitchen, to try and finally extract the last of the water from a wahing-machine overflow last week. just decided: to see and photograph the following artworks before 30th june: [www.cubittartists.org.uk] [www.headington.org.uk] [tuned-in.org]

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Feds Delay Airliner Flight After Psychic’s Vision — Nothing Suspicious Found On Board [www.theneworleanschannel.com]

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