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@DarenBBC ? in reply to DarenBBC # turning into one of those days that is only addressable through milk and cookies. # #United breaks guitars – #Delta loses dogs http://bit.ly/aUH3AG – via @kurtsauer # woo: German software giant SAP agrees to acquire Sybase – WSJ – that will amuse a few people I know –

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David Blunkett: The Liberal Democrats "are behaving like every harlot in history" on @r4today – that'll go down well… # Matt cartoon today seems apt: http://bit.ly/bKJxGI # @carriebish and he lacks the left hook of John Prescott 😛 in reply to carriebish # Just learned Gordon Brown's first name is actually 'James' … # @spufidoo

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I have put "Ducks" into both documentation *and* code. Glad to see I am not the only one. http://bit.ly/9NVmMm # @ids Blame it on the Tories. You will, anyway 😛 in reply to ids # Trying to report the MeetJustinBieber group on #FB as a source of viral e-mail spam; there is no checkbox for

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@pauljakma it's called Cumulative Voting http://bit.ly/953Lz6 – fairer because _everyone's_ 2nd preferences (etc) get counted. in reply to pauljakma # @pauljakma the problem with "I want X, but if I can't have them then I want Y" is the definition of "can't have" … in reply to pauljakma # @bulletford that's a good article, thank

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Bought a white farmhouse loaf today; slicing it at home remembered it to be exactly same soft, pappy bread my grandmother used to get. Odd. # Lady Gaga loses royal-warranted prototype lingerie – wait, you mean the Queen wears this stuff? http://bit.ly/b317WH # Endlich! Ich habe ein kopie des "Untergang" ! (translation: "The election! Will

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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) say "Yes, cut that clitoris for God!" http://bit.ly/9hcFPt http://bit.ly/98ovHc #darkages # Reading "The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct" http://bit.ly/90RIsZ – makes you wonder … # @katzmandu i hope not ; that said i am also anti-cutting of any sort, male or female, so i see a larger issue

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Twitter – First With The News: UKIP candidate Nigel Farage in plane crash, use search to follow story. # Dropsafe: How to follow Facebook and Livejournal using Feedreaders, and thereby recover some privacy http://bit.ly/dlSbVN # If the turnout at #HartleyWintney is anything to go by, this'll be a big election. Almost double the usual activity.

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If, like me, you are trying to live “off-grid” from FaceBook and/or LiveJournal, one good option is a feed-reader. These subversive software tools are supported by most major silo websites and (to varying extents) permit you to download huge gobs of data for later perusal, online and/or offline. The silos don’t like them because there

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something on #rocketboom is dreadfully wrong: http://www.rocketboom.com/wp-admin/install.php # Dropsafe: security discussion: crypto – a partial spoiler for Facebook's world domination http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4046 # Gwibber on #Karmic is as slow as a snail ; does #Lucid #Ubuntu use the supposedly faster "beta" version? Is it quick on a 1.6GHz netbook ? # >@asavage "He said a group

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http://importantrecords.com/sunboxes/ Sun Boxes are an environment to enter and exit. It’s comprised of twenty speakers operating independently each powered by solar panels. There is a different guitar sample in each box all playing together making the composition. The guitar samples are all of different lengths so the whole piece keeps evolving. Participants are encouraged to

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I’m not deleting my Facebook – not yet, anyway. I have too many friends who use FB exclusively, and a large number who choose to comment on my blogposts via Facebook Wall Postings rather than on my blog itself. However I am paring-away as much information as I can from my Facebook page, moving towards

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i’ll be brief… issue: facebook conversation threads, messages, etc, get mined for keywords and likes, etc, and turned into adverts solution that pisses off facebook while : obfuscating cryptography phase 1: rot13 your conversation threads phase 2: a browser plugin which automatically detects/decrypts this (some already exist) phase 3: a browser plugin with more advanced,

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