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ever wonder how big a lunar crater is?
http://www.weasner.com/etx/guests/images/hatwood-moon01.jpg
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weekend
okay – a brief recap of past few days: thursday 0500h heathrow, fly edinburgh, meetings with crazy norwegians, dutch, and assorted other europeans, talk security. nice hotel linlithgow. posh dinner with rest of team, dinner pictures at: [www.crypticide.org] discover that norwegians especially are total party monsters, including crowberry liqueur and akvavit starters. very generous folk,…
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vital latin phrases for librarians
[warriorlibrarian.com] Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.
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10 megabytes, 15 minutes and 2 seconds of geek lullaby…
Radio 4 listeners will befamiliar with the content, but I felt some of my non-UK friends might like to take in the soporific tones and structure of the 6-part shutdown… http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm/tmp/radio4.mp3
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bizzare…
There’s a programme on the BBC I am watching, about Operation Shiloh – http://www.opshiloh.com/ – involving American Christians on tour in Israel with former/current Israeli Defense Force commandos, learning hand-to-hand combat, giving them big semi/automatic guns, sleeping on hard ground, keeping all-night watch and barely stopping them shooting each other. Very Boy Scout. Even Girl…
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i love the inland revenue service
for the first time in 12 years, i am due a tax rebate, and do not have a K-code! yippee!
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from found.pale.org
[www.avonandsomerset.police.uk] Examples of real 999 calls We have real examples of some of the calls our operators have received to demonstrate the nature of the problem of our emergency line receiving calls that are not an emergency matter. The following 999 calls have been given titles that reflect the content of the conversation. Pigeon –…
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Weekend Biking
Clipping from an e-mail I just sent. I’m mildly miffed, but these things happen, and I had a good ride getting to Wales. I did 150 miles on the A44 en-route to Rhyader on my DR-Z400S at the weekend. I broke down. As darkness fell. In the wet fog. On a mountainside. Not wanting to…
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geek amusement
<davew> Right, nearly time to shove off <davew> An amusing thought to leave you with <davew> The word “must” appears only once in ISO 17799, on page 33 <davew> In a section which is headed as something “which should be given careful consideration” <davew> With that, goodnight all 🙂