Dropsafe

Meet… Robert Prince, inventor of the exclusive brake camshaft rotation meter [who] demonstrates for the heavy transport industry the most economical way of computing brake component wear and the limitations of the brake camshaft. The rotation meter was designed to save the trucking industry money and to save the DOT vital brake inspection time, and…

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although potentially disturbing, and certainly criminal, i truly hope this is not a spoof website: Robber wields sword in gas station heist A gas station in Arendal on Norway’s southern coast was robbed early Tuesday morning by a man dressed like a Japanese ninja. He brandished a sword, seized some cash and fled on a…

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it appears – according to [www.macosxhints.com] that Safari automatically caches all favicon.ico files and provides no easy way to purge them, thereby explaining the problems I was having in testing the one I created earlier today. Hohum.

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i am not perfect about these either – sometimes i type the wrong word when my brain is not fully engaged, but for the sake of annotation: the phrase is “hear, hear” not “here, here” – it is meant as a contraction of a phrase like: hear him! hear him! for [he] speaks the truth!…

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Re: [slashdot.org] and [news.bbc.co.uk] steve.m writes “The BBC are reporting on a new batch of top level domain names being submitted to ICANN for approval. By far the most interesting proposal is for a .mail TLD to register legitimate mail servers. Could this eventually be the end of spam ?” *yawn* The same old discussion,…

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my colleague simon just returned from a trip to boston massachusetts; being of a dirty turn of mind he remembered particularly the voiceover during a television advert for a drug which (with the help of google) we can reproduce below: [www.cialis.com] Cialis is not for everyone. […] The most common side effects with Cialis were…

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…surrounded by a sepia glow. [news.bbc.co.uk]

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If I take action to sue people – preferably some large corporate target – for defamation when they send me an auto-email of the form: You sent me a virus W32.FooBar, here’s a copy of it, and please virus-scan your computer. …would it scare the Americans of this world into not sending this sort of…

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Interesting clipping found on [lawandpolitics.blogspot.com] The Third Punic War–A Distant Echo of the Attack on Iraq  Pinpointing the causes of any war is notoriously difficult. But often one can find that at least part of the impetus involves a touch of the irrational–inexplicable human urges, personal obsessions, private hatreds. These undercurrents can lead politicians to…

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This article [www.wired.com] explains why a colleague asked me whether I knew of the term dogging – which I did not, being a geek in the traditional sense – and it seems that the meme has now morphed into toothing, anonymous sex arranged by bluetooth phones. It might be going on in the UK, but…

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There’s an advert at [www.astromart.com] to sell Clyde Tombaugh’s amateur telescopes; I’d love to visit it, but I’d never buy it even if I had the money. I much prefer the trend for lighterweight, modern mountings (if the Dobsonian can be called modern) – compare: 16″ f/10 circa 1960: [www.astromart.com] 16″ f/3.5 circa 2002 [home.planet.nl]…

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