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Morning Delight – Chewing gum artist: Painting miniature masterpieces – http://goo.gl/QjyV1 # @ruskin147 You can't "make" the Valley in Britain; it'd rise from colocation of entrepreneurs&geeks who lack other reason to move to SFO in reply to ruskin147 # @ruskin147 The hacker/developer ethic is strong in the UK, but there's no easy change to the

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Kitchen cabinets have arrived. With wrong doors & one panel, cracked, that may be replacable. Boss from http://www.twoguys.co.uk/ en route # @peterjenkins depends what you mean by 'started' and 'war' but NI, Algiers and Suez spring to mind http://bit.ly/cCvxql http://bit.ly/czoObJ in reply to peterjenkins # @peterjenkins ps, why ask me? in reply to peterjenkins #

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Fascinating http://bit.ly/ddowyA – visualising the reasons that people suddenly want to appear "single" on Facebook #McCandless # Banksy Halloween Costume: http://mlkshk.com/r/9P # Just removed a 3" diameter house brown from the kitchen, lest it be glued to the vinyl. Huge fangs! # @richmarr Bats versus Spiders. New movie? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_house_spider in reply to richmarr # "Wolde

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RT @kashfarooq: BLOGGING: In defence of Skeptics in the Pub http://bit.ly/bJci19 #sitp #westskep # @peterjenkins #CyanogenMod is a big threat to phonemakers, it negates obsolescence. My G1 is good for another 12 months sans droppage. in reply to peterjenkins # US civil rights organisation prepares for new 'crypto war' – http://goo.gl/Ra68 #cryptowar20 # MUST WATCH:

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The greatest hurdle faced by #GoogleStreetView is people's belief that anyone cares about them and their houses. # Some think #GoogleStreetView enabled burglars are coming to get them; addressing drug-addiction would be better at lowering crime rates # OTOH #GoogleStreetView wholesale WiFi packet capture was insensitive and dumb; but from a public street? I'm conflicted

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and it's pre-work day for the epic kitchen refit, jeff downstairs prepping the floor doe self-leveling latex compound … # I wonder if Osama Bin Laden has declared #WarOnFedEx ? # FTR I am still dubious re: devices: leaked by Saudis (and we're told that), they're "test runs", photos online, then called "viable"; Stinks #

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New: "The Friday Feed: Wikileaks, Firesheep, and Government Interception" #unscrewingsecurity @computerworlduk http://bit.ly/c1Jb5K # .@XH558 Avro Vulcan needs money to fly! See http://www.vulcantothesky.org/ for appeal details! # Is there any way to get #Disqus to ping me when a thread in which I have commented, is updated? # Anyone viewing the #CharlieChaplin cellphone hoax: she's scratching

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@markoborn @dogsbodyorg Just took yr survey. Answer: "An open-source solution that I can deploy for myself". in reply to markoborn # @markoborn incidentally your radiobuttons are not untickable. i had to reload. # @markoborn pps: for example of an online service which is opensource & deployable, consider wordpress.{com,org} # Want: 720p HD pocket video, H.264,

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The Viking landing craft were sterilised in case of polluting the Martian biosphere, and lest contamination skew test results. Given that bacteria can survive way over a year in space, and given the implausibility of manned space flight for the next 100 years or so, perhaps we should start launching microbes to the stars in

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Looking at screenshots of Ubuntu Unity desktop, and it's awfully like how I have got my GNOME and OSX both configured http://bit.ly/bwaQxH # Reset my Froyo phone. Market is trying to simultaneously download 18 apps to reinstall them. Is choking. Strange. #android #

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New: "WikiLeaks is mirroring on Amazon and some people don't get it?" #unscrewingsecurity @computerworlduk http://bit.ly/93cdGg # @timrs Exactly. http://bbc.in/cFstjE at 21m30 mark in reply to timrs # @jackofkent would that make you now a "Kentish Brummie", or a "Brummie of Kent"? Apparently the distinction is quite important… in reply to jackofkent # New: Firesheep observation

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