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[news.bbc.co.uk] Bacon mistaken for human head Police have apologised to an artist after raiding his home when an artwork made out of bacon was mistaken for a human head. Richard Morrison, 37, of Wavertree, Liverpool, returned home to find his door had been kicked in by police with a search warrant. They had been acting…

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Let’s see – wat has happened the past few weeks? Week-before-last was the Usenix Security Symposium as detailed elsewhere in a proper report thingy; stuff which didn’t make it into the report included the 2.5 hour chitchat with two guys from NIST, plus myself and Steve Bellovin, making the proposition that there is no practical…

Can someone please cite me the name of a credible, big-name French rock-and-roll band? Neither techno, rap, nor dance, in which genres the French have excellent representation, but just pure R&R and its progeny? I am investigating the proposition (suggested by someone else) that it is impossible to “rock and roll” in french, and that…

it required a wheelbarrow to retreive all the beer from my car. roy and i went to calais, france yesterday, as a day trip via the channel tunnel; up at 0400h, out the house at 0510h, arrive roys at 0545h, leave roys at 0555h, arrive folkestone 0755h, drive aboard 0815h and half an hour of…

culled from a mate’s blog at [found.pale.org] [eigenradio.media.mit.edu] All those stations, playing all that music, all the time! There’s at least 40 different songs being played every week on most radio stations! Who has enough time in the day to listen to them all? That’s why we’ve set up banks of computers to do the…

[www.newtechusa.com] – from Rob

…one episode of which for some reason i find so very redolent of LJ. http://sexylosers.keenspace.com/195.html beware content.

I meant to write up a pile of stuff last week, but have failed to do so, and thus will try and get it all down, now. As I compose this, today is (still) Thursday. This day last week, I switched off the ADSL (gods! only had it one day and am switching it off!)…

The NBC Version of “Coupling” has a promo at http://www.nbc.com/nbc/Primetime_Preview/comedy/Coupling.shtml – if anyone can mail me the terminal URL for the RealMedia or WinMP 300k video clip, I’d e greatly obliges as the webredirector does not seem to like my Mac… Rumour has it, {Je,Geo}ff’s not so scarey… 8-(

OK, so I have been hacking on the net in various forms since 1986 – for those who can’t do math that’s longer than some of you have been alive, some 17+ years. And, tonight for the first time, I have Internet at home like the billions of Johnnie-come-latelies that the rest of you are.…

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