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Yellow Pages? Why?
It’s definitely thinner than it once was. But who is it for?
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Can anyone identify this Curious Booze Contraption?
Photoset on Flickr This is a friend’s device, inherited. Estimated date of manufacture: ~1950 (just a guess, but plausible) Initially I was thinking that it screamed Absinthe Fountain – but the vine decoration and optic-like push dispenser suggest not. Perhaps it’s just a white wine cooler? Update: I suspect the lid is from a different…
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Homemade Apricot and Flat-Peach Pudding, with Vanilla Sugar Syrup
From scratch: Now just needs to cool a little, then add ice-cream and friends. If you’ve not tried flat peaches, they’re lovely; they satisfy Muffett’s Law of Ugly Food[1] and are a lot sweeter. Small pips, too. — [1] “generally tastier because a) they have to be and b) they are less popular so more…
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The Witch Hunt of E-books #lendink #publishing #copyright #sharing #kindle #incaseyoumissedit
So I read this article: Piracy witch hunt downs legit e-book lending Web site On August 1, a vitriolic, hysterical mob of authors mistook e-book lending Web site Lendink for a piracy clearinghouse, rallying a terribly mistaken call to action. The site remains offline today as details emerge revealing just how wrong these authors were…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-26
@evgenymorozov The ones looking at the advertising "impressions" # Before anyone says how cheap #CCDP would be to implement, they should be required to give a lecture on fully meshed backbone topologies # RT @hvcco: @AlecMuffett cheapest option would be to sub #CCDP out to the Chinese, they already have the kit in place 🙂…
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Lance Armstrong doping campaign exposes USADA’s hypocrisy # Even if I had the ability, I wouldn’t bother.
Anyone who thinks an athlete has a fair shot in front of CAS should review the Alberto Contador case. Contador was found to have a minuscule, insignificant amount of clenbuterol in his urine during the 2010 Tour de France. After hearing 4,000 pages of testimony and debate, CAS acknowledged that the substance was too small…
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Elbow with the BBC Concert Orchestra Performing The seldom seen kid – Full Concert – YouTube
Blast from the past; also faintly reminiscent of the Divine Comedy at the RFH in ’97 with the full orchestration…
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The Waggon and Horses in Hartley Wintney is staggeringly close to being The Moon Under Water
Orwell’s “ideal pub”, The Moon Under Water: The architecture and fittings must be uncompromisingly Victorian. Prettymuch; possibly older. Games, such as darts, are only played in the public part of the bar. Yep. The pub is quiet enough to talk, with the house possessing neither a radio nor a piano. There is a jukebox, but…
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“It was like ‘CSI,’ but it was real.”
Queens resident Rebecca Fox, 27, said she saw people running down the street and initially thought it was a celebrity sighting, but then saw a woman shot in the foot and a man dead on the ground. “I was scared and shocked and literally shaking,” she said. She said police seemed to appear in seconds.…
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Re: Pixar, and my first 3D movie experience
Via the comments on this post: Mark What did you think of the 3D? Alec All told, good. I need to adjust my contacts prescription so there were a couple of times I felt that things were slightly wrong, but nothing major. A lot of Brave is sweeping landscapes, and details were picked out in…
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Twitter Updates for 2012-08-25
.@metoffice What happened? Did anyone who turned their phone upside down cause a hurricane or something? # @lauraanngill @shortblue Sennheiser HD600/650. #win # .@JonnyHeavey Updated #Facebook app on #JellyBean #Android will now not pop up a keyboard. Can't type anything; Have FB redone all apps? # Tried loading #SwiftKey onto the Nexus. Deleted it before…