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When the Publishers Association mention “illegal content” – here’s an example. HT @PublishersAssoc @OpenRightsGroup
If you go to this page at the University of Pennsylvania, you’ll read the following text: A Celebration of Woman Writers Married Love, or Love in Marriage By Marie Carmichael Stopes, Sc.D., Ph. D. (1880-1958) New York: The Critic And Guide Company, 1918. In the Unites States of America, [sic] the 1918 edition of “Married
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Twitter Updates for 2012-02-18
: #Geek #Friday #Bored Check out @schuetzdj & his worked solutions of #Security Conference Badge Contests http://t.co/Qpap7fXp # @nyyrajvggranhre @gigaom @adrianco Cruel, but no argument from me re: some of them… # @tomaszmiklas Thanks for that, I'd entirely missed the ticket registration for #BSidesLondon # @tomaszmiklas done. # Yes! Yes! Precisely! One for @ericjoyce and
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Chase Williams Apple Gin: does make an epic, though simple, clean and strong, G&T – HT @WilliamsGin
As reviewed here. If you want massive herbage in your G&T, stick to Hendricks or Sapphire which are also good, just different.
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Accidental recipe: Fake Spicy Stir-fry Vegetables
2x handfuls mushrooms, coarsely sliced 3x medium carrots, roll-cut 1x medium onion, crescents about 8 cloves pickled garlic, sliced (less if fresh) fry in wok with a little oil; while frying, add 1/2 stem lemongrass, bashed flat and minced fine 2 tbsp spicy hot mango chutney (used: wilkin/tiptree) pepper pinch salt cook through until a
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Just found this referrer from #BlueCoat in my logfiles; does this mean they have blocked me? #security #censorship
Quote: http://notify.bluecoat.com/notify-Grey-List?http/dropsafe_crypticide_com/ aHR0cDovL2Ryb3BzYWZlLmNyeXB0aWNpZGUuY29tL2FydGljbGUvNDYzMw=%3D It does not appear to load anything – it gives me an IIS 404; but note the infix string: Grey* List? That’s a mail-spam term as far as I am concerned… Hmmm… The Base64 encoded string decodes to the following URL on my site: http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4633 …which is about Kindle batteries, so I
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Two Parliamentary Reports: Future of Investigative Journalism / Roots of violent radicalisation; #censorship #regulation
Home Affairs Committee – Nineteenth Report Roots of violent radicalisation The Internet 1, The Internet 2 57. Given the impossibility of comprehensively controlling the internet, it is necessary to employ other methods to tackle the issue. Alyas Karmani argued: If you are thinking about banning the internet, you have just got to provide a counter-narrative.
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Theological reading: #JewishEncyclopedia: the unedited full-text of the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia: JESUS OF NAZARETH
O wad some Power the gift tae gie us to see oursels as ithers see us: http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/8616-jesus-of-nazareth […] In the New Testament there are four “Gospels” professing to deal with the life of Jesus independently; but it is now almost universally agreed that the first three of these, known by the names of “Matthew,” “Mark,”
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Once again the error of thinking of the Internet as a ‘space’ inveigles into Government thinking
The report described the internet as “one of the few unregulated spaces where radicalisation is able to take place” and suggested it played a greater role in promoting violence than prisons, universities or places of worship. via BBC News – Home Affairs Committee warns of far-right terror threat. It’s not a space, people. The Internet
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New Statesman – Video: Bristol bus driver uses “vehicle as weapon”
The video is pretty shocking; not gory, but the intention of it all… The court heard that Hill had driven too close to Philip Mead, 43, off his bike near St James Barton roundabout in Bristol. As the bus stopped, Mead parked his bike against the front of the bus and had a heated argument