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[news.bbc.co.uk] Contemporary Report: 1960: TV star famed for rudeness dies British TV personality Gilbert Harding, who achieved fame through his outspoken and often rude behaviour, has died of a heart attack. He collapsed as he was leaving the BBC’s Broadcasting House in London after a recording session. His chauffeur waiting to collect him saw him…

I think that I know which of the two: A ubiquitous network of number-plate-recognition speed cameras Having to insure a SORN vehicle that’s disassembled in your garage …horrifies me the most, but the two of them combined, beggars belief! [www.theregister.co.uk] A “24×7 national vehicle movement database” that logs everything on the UK’s roads and retains…

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Having received the happy news that my trike will be arriving in January (hooray!) rather than March/April (Boo!) I am currently researching the extra bits & bobs that I’ll need to use it as a on-road/off-road commuter. When I visited the factory Neil explained to me that the key to riding a recumbent trike is…

Skype Support Request, Suggestions: Hi, Please see the attached issue regarding my issue. I use Skype IM under MacOS, and am finding the use of individually cancelable, stacking, status popups to be a nuisance. Could you not have some sort of colour-coded call-status indicator, or perhaps flag individual outgoing messages with a green indicator (in…

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Love him or loathe him, Clarkson and chums are back! [www.bbc.co.uk]

It struck me that if I have cars (even), motorbikes (even), bicycles (even), tricycles (odd, soon) and a wheel barrow (odd), perhaps to restore parity to my wheel count from the arrival of the impending trike, I should try one of these: Pashley “Muni” Unicycle …just to see what they’re like, you understand…

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…maybe they need some coffee, instead? 😎 [news.bbc.co.uk] Sozzled elks hound old folks home An old people’s home in Sweden found itself under siege from two drunks. But these were no ordinary drinkers – the tipsy pair were elks who had come upon some fermented apples outside the home in Sibbhult, southern Sweden. The cow…

Via Slashdot, which isn’t worth reading since the opinions cited there aren’t worth jack, a Nestle subsidiary/R&D company has applied for a patent ( [www.wipo.int] [PDF]) upon a fermented coffee beverage. The actual text reads: This invention relates to a soft drnk or beverage, a beverage base and a process for making such a beverage…

…and today verging upon ironical…