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Let’s play with stereotypes for a moment: Men are traditionally perceived to want sex, and Women (in some relationships) to retain power by denying access to it So Women press to have household porn blocked Men (inarticulate, without explaining why) get shirty and frustrated Result: increase in domestic violence and a modest uptick in prostitution.…

@ruskin147 @diane1859 I grew up in #droitwich Near #wychbold towers you could pick up the handset in many phoneboxes and hear R4. # @copenhagenize Funny. As a motorcyclist it is a given that you are a vehicle. # @timoreilly "A politician who forgot to add 'most kinds of tax' to the list?" 🙂 # Total…

.@darrenmoffat One for you: http://t.co/nyaThlms – Time-zone database down # WestBoro Baptist Church claiming they will picket Steve Jobs' funeral. See @MargieJPhelps and http://t.co/GtyssQaa # .@MargieJPhelps says "God created iPhone" – but Steve Jobs created iPhone. Therefore 1) Steve was God and 2) http://t.co/t75zQHkM #qed # @killerswan I hope it's the sort of stupidity which…

Apple Store, Regent St http://t.co/YxS4jKhN # "god is dead" http://t.co/t75zQHkM # And the Apple Store is playing "Nothing's Gonna Change my World." # Pictures from the London Regent Street Apple Store: http://t.co/NTdxMurw # In the USA Government Data, creation paid for by the taxpayer, is open for public use. In the UK, not so. See…

@Hacksperger Reset the planet to _what_ ? Default settings are pretty boring. #askanyastronomer # @Hacksperger A default planet is like a raw X-windows server: grey, mostly featureless at a macro level, & has no user interface. # @Hacksperger You actually have no idea what "entropy" means, do you? Go on, what do you think it…

In memory of the late Gene Schultz – whom I remember mostly from CIAC – Spaf passes on this sage advice http://t.co/nxlMTDP5 #security #sad #

@siriusnoir Something happened in HW last night? # Gardening – large amount of heavy tree pruning. Satisfying in a caber-tossing kind of way. # The "semi fast" service is not "semi slow" ? http://t.co/rgJc6078 # Tiny new potatoes, grape-sized, freshly dug, boiled, french butter. Bliss. Even the requisite comedy vegetable: http://t.co/XbZgpmg5 # If you're not…

New: From Japanese toilets to Digital debris to Micropayments http://t.co/CICiq4ij # Hartley Wintney News: Last night's Dilly Lane Police action was "Pursuit of an escaped defendant", affected residents told #hartleywintney # Local man says "We were used to police helicopters in #Medway but moved here because there's no crime" #hartleywintney # In other news: 4x…

Occasionally I am tasked with explaining why personal information is valuable – and inspired by a toilet article on BoingBoing I ran into this quote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilets_in_Japan However, historically, pit toilets were more common, as they were easier to build and allowed the reuse of the feces as fertilizer[14]—very important in a country where Buddhism and…

Leftovers Risotto – rather odd, but satisfying. Includes bratwurst. # @mjj122 rural northeast hampshire # The more I read #cybersecurity strategy docs / about the risks facing our #CNI the more I am put in mind of #Y2K compliance # I have just found out what time it is by following @big_ben_clock # There's a…

@bulletford Nope – missed a chunk of the latter talk – will try a different approach next time. # @ppolstra Maybe you can redeem the word 🙂 # Some of my fellow ex-#Sun developers will recognise these problems, and some of the solutions http://t.co/JecXEEBm HT @shortblue #fixed # RT: Why #Cybersecurity Is Rubbish (slides from…

How to confuse a European houseguest: Give them a block of ordinary, hard cheese Give them an ordinary, sharp knife This keeps happening. Four times now. It’s got to the point where I keep two cheese slicers / kaasschaaf / ostehøvel / rabot à fromage handy, for when – cheese in one hand, knife in…