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Fantastic recycling idea for used CD-ROM spindles : http://imgur.com/bBNKp # Amusement for today: go to http://scribe.googlelabs.com/ and treat it like the alternating-words game from I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue # @mount_knowledge Quickly, from memory, type your IPv6 address into Twitter and post it. in reply to mount_knowledge # New: #GoogleScribe writes Joyce 2.0 http://bit.ly/90mJtu

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I started with “if” and then accepted the first choice for every suggestion until I had to quit; in a sense this is the most popular sentence beginning with “if” that Google knows about… If i had anything to do with themselves on and off the field and then press the button to the right

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DLR and Waterloo&City from Bank, both working ok. #tubestrike # Was toying with idea of getting iPhone but just found out how easy it is to USB-tether Froyo to Ubuntu10; I think Steve's lost me re: phones # Just had a tomato for dinner. Just the one. Homegrown. It was rather larger than my fist,

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@ramtopsgrum Unprovable Caesar/Robin Hood/King Arthur are not being used by people to dictate morality & government. Unprovable Jesus is. in reply to ramtopsgrum # Proof there is an "I" in "TEAM" http://bit.ly/bHcw0I # So the voice of @stephenfry was talking to me from my sportsbag. It was then I discovered that I had somehow switched

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Occasionally I have to convince people that geeks will expend uneconomic amounts of time on apparently pointless but fascinating challenges: Click http://bit.ly/btZCMX for the story.

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I didn't know before today: in WWII the Japanese had a lucky shot that could have dented development of the A-bomb http://bit.ly/aujk9E # @gravax Harris Hawk – friendly, gregarious, noisy. Fun? in reply to gravax # @ramtopsgrum If you hear f=GMm/r^2 the joy of science is that it's testable, & the Newton-Apple myth is irrelevant.

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So maybe this is why people debate about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclavianism # Have just realised why my Blog no longer sends to Twitter when posting. OAuth. Oh, bother. # @ramtopsgrum I remember getting into a transubstantiation argument at school. With the drama teacher. Different, how? in

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…and how long before t.co comes to be called the “realtime google”?

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Independence Day and V had it wrong; paucity of resources / mining for new riches is a great reason to colonise new worlds – but along with the pursuit of commodities frequently comes the pursuit of extending a religious ideology. Let’s try a few words to illustrate: Crusade. Evangelism. Missionary. Conquistador. Civilisation. Conversion. Someone must

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@pmoriarty asks “What’s so scary about RPZ?” in reference to a couple of tweets of mine regarding DNS reputation blacklisting. So I’ll try to phrase a response. It’ll take more than 140 characters. First up, I want to be clear about the terms of the question – this is not a technical crit of RPZ,

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Considering a cycle trip to Windsor Great Park in the near future. Aside from greenery, deer & royals, plz suggest something to do/see/eat? #

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