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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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http://bit.ly/9uni0u "He thought her beautiful… dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink" # I feel certain that there's a PhD to be had in researching the radio listening demographics of builders, plasterers and decorators # Lots of VOOOOOOOM sounds from the direction of Odiham. Airshow practice?

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#GNOME devs, please get creative with your icons; #gwibber and #liferea and "mount a remote volume" all have earth-icons, v.confusing # prybar, pliers & small vacuum cleaner in one hand, glass of chilled dry sherry in the other; yes, it's denailing-the-floorboards time again! # BBC Failwhale includes traditional Testcard dolly in a ball of flame!

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Rocketboom on how to dispute a YouTube copyright claim: http://bit.ly/aeOKVE – important stuff # Tim Minchin Pope Song: saw it last night at 320 views, this morning at 26,000 views, now at 50,000 views. Are we viral yet? # Anybody on #ubuntu know a batch mechanism to change *all* file-type handlers that would invoke #totem

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@cthreeo3 tastes like … chicken^H^H^H^H^H^H^H rhubarb. in reply to cthreeo3 # Reviewing "I Had NO Idea That Google Could Do This" on Facebook, am presuming it's another FaceTrojan until proven otherwise. # It's kinda tragic that my default view of #FaceBook stuff is that "It's A Trap" – prettymuch the same way I view e-mail,

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I find this faintly ridiculous: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10090449.stm Google will have “a problem” if it does not diversify its business, the head of Yahoo has told BBC News. Carol Bartz said that Google would have to “do a lot more than search” and suggested that it would have to “grow a company the size of Yahoo every

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Dropsafe: Regarding the Proposal for Traffic Calming at Green Lane, Hartley Wintney http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4017 # How long does it take a thin, liquid self-levelling compound screed to harden? # @SouthLondonGN shall try to find it. in reply to SouthLondonGN # My "Rhubarb Chard" is worrying me; EITHER: a bunch (not all) people on the Web are

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cc: [name elided], Headteacher, Greenfields Junior School I have also published these notes at http://dropsafe.crypticide.com/article/4017 Dear Sir/Madam: As described at http://hartleywintney.org.uk/ the calming measures for Green Lane comprise three parts: “Gateway” picket-fence markers on either side of Green Lane, some distance either side of the school “Buildouts” narrowing Green Lane to a single carriageway with

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Firefox is still quite fast. When you switch off Java, JavaScript and install AdBlock+ # At my local MP hustings watching questions… # 1) the moral health of the Country is in freefall – if elected what will your Party do about it? # 2) we are led to believe there are more public than

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