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El Reg Now for the fun part. Take your hydrogen peroxide, acetone, and sulfuric acid, measure them very carefully, and put them into drinks bottles for convenient smuggling onto a plane. It’s all right to mix the peroxide and acetone in one container, so long as it remains cool. Don’t forget to bring several frozen…

Concept: Next US Presidential Election (2008?) Clinton vs: Rice. Who wins? Hmm?

After dozly hearing the news on the radio yesterday morning, it struck me that the new definition of a planet would surely certainly pull in at least one of the asteroids, and lo it appears I was correct, as explained at Steve’s masterly summary of the planetary situation. I was kinda hoping that Vesta would…

Link at The Raw Feed.

From an IM conversation with Rob Diamond: Rob: Are you up the whole “the Internet is a series of tubes” thing? Alec: nooooo ? Rob: OK, must fill you in… Rob: The crazy senator from Alaska gave this bizarre speech, in which he described the Internet as a series of tubes: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499 Rob: Which really…

The solution to ATM PIN fraud, for mathematicians? (From the Wooster Collective)

http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/08/14/banksy_in_brook.php Another Diamond Link.

I’m in the curious situation where I am recovering, but bits of me now are more tender painful than they have ever been before – I suspect that formerly they were so mashed that they weren’t in a position to report pain, but now the nerves are healed and having a whale of a time……

One for both Messers Gerhard and Finnis: icwales Welsh-speaking cyclists have been left baffled – and possibly concerned for their health – after a bizarre translation mix-up. For instead of a road sign telling them to dismount, the Welsh translation informs them that ‘bladder disease has returned’. […] Owain Sgiv, an officer for the Welsh…

For those who imminently predict the death of mainstream media – mentioning no names – this review of the Snakes on a Plane phenomenon makes a point with which some might sympathise: Still, don’t think for a moment that audiences have hijacked the ship of Big Media. The permutations of creative online infringement — fan…

Yet more evidence that the American public are discovering sarcasm; if you are old enough to remember nuclear terror done properly – of the sirens, megatonnage-per-county and “how much of England might actually be left habitable?” sort – then you’ll probably find this about as funny as I did: ReallyReady: FAS Analysis of Ready.gov The…

The sort of behaviour upon which Mr Gerhard frowns: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR2ygFn-yR8