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Malaysia deports journalist #HamzaKashgari back to Saudi for possible #Twitter joke/apostasy trial
BBC News – Malaysia deports Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari. Malaysian authorities have deported a Saudi journalist accused of insulting the Prophet Muhammad in a tweet. Police confirmed to the BBC that Hamza Kashgari was sent back to Saudi Arabia on Sunday despite protests from human rights groups. Mr Kashgari’s controversial tweet last week sparked more…
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Gyroscopic self-leveling pool table on the cruise ship “Radiance of the Seas” – YouTube # playing with science
It takes a few seconds to sense the magnitude of what’s going on here: via Gyroscopic self-leveling pool table on the cruise ship “Radiance of the Seas” – YouTube.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-12
: The most disturbing thing about @choochoobear/Randy Mulholland is that each time you think it's satire, it's not http://t.co/GUW7yuxQ # : IEEE blows it on the Security & Privacy copyright agreement # HT @geoffarnold http://t.co/6jMa11XC # Not to detract from the magnitude, but how do you post on someone's Twitter page? http://t.co/i9HiC2Kr # this is…
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TIL we get a 4-day weekend in June for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
BBC News – New bank holiday for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012.
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Greenhouse: cold temp last night = -14C ; temp now = +18C
Thermodynamics still works.
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IEEE blows it on the Security & Privacy copyright agreement # HT @geoffarnold
I was forwarded this by @GeoffArnold; I suspect we’re of a like mind, that access to science being gatekeeper’d by societies and publishers is only one rung down from the RIAA/MPAA trainwreck. Dan Wallach is sound. Go read his post. Last June, I wrote about the decision at the business meeting of IEEE Security &…
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The most disturbing thing about @choochoobear/Randy Mulholland is that each time you think it’s satire, it’s not
Somehow the whole “bronies” thing only blipped on my radar, but then S*P puts it into full stark horror and you think it’s comic exaggeration, so he then explains the complaints he gets… Oy.
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-11
: "Hey! Look! A Holistic View Of Our Cybersecurity!" #security #cyber #riskmanagement #risk #iso27001 HT: @cyspex http://t.co/hzU2UviN # : "Digital Darwinism: Perspectives for Industry and Government" (http://t.co/bPrxPPE9 at Computerworld) http://t.co/Xto77X2d # “@WillTovey: Germany now saying it *won't* sign #ACTA – if this keeps up we can stay at home tomorrow. http://t.co/F1EnZim6 (@techdirt)” # @JamesFirth Hook…
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Chesterton wrote “When people stop believing in God… they believe in anything”. Let’s test that theory. (HT @mjrobbins)
The full quote goes: “When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything.” …and @mjrobbins points out that this weekend the newspapers look like: Telegraph Mail Times But Wikipedia figures: The 2001 census found that 76.8% of the UK population had a religion. Surveys that employ a “harder”…
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Review: Chase Distillery ‘Williams’ Gin – Quite extraordinary Gin from Apple Vodka
I’m a sucker for Apples – not just the computers, but the actual fruit. When you grow up in rural Worcestershire with three full trees in the garden (a Worcester Pearmain, a Bramley, and an unspecified russet) and a scrumpable orchard 110 yards away, and with relatives in Herefordshire next door, apples are almost literally…
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Teens, Lies and Instant Messenger… and now we can add “Don’t share postings with your dog”
I do this presentation about things not to do with Facebook, Twitter and IM when you are having an affair… and I have an example of transitive trust issues like this, but this is way more funny and a lot less lewd… Part 1, a video for context, including shooting-up a laptop with a .45:…
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Hartley Wintney has been playing Cricket 17 years longer than the MCC & Lord’s cricket ground
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marylebone_Cricket_Club versus http://www.hwcc1770.co.uk/history/default.aspx…