• Why Jaywalking doesn’t exist in Great Britain

    Pedestrians are expected to have common sense http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_walking#United_Kingdom In England and Wales it is legal to cross all roads except motorways (where pedestrians and slow vehicles are not permitted). The Highway Code contains additional rules for crossing a road safely,[10] but these are recommendations and not legally enforceable, although as with other advisory parts of

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-11-29

    Short doubleshot cappucino and a week's shopping with 750g of Bellota on knockdown. On cycle. Different. Nice. # @nmeth every so often #twittertools burps and that happens. Annoying. Thanks for the headsup. in reply to nmeth # @cranrob $10/oz = $160/lb = $352/kg ~ £213/kg ; http://is.gd/55IF8 sell 7kg @ £42/kg ; Blame the #FDA

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-11-28

    BEER! – Tactical Nuclear Penguin http://bit.ly/8txmr4 – Nanny State http://bit.ly/6OGQc1 – via http://bit.ly/5HCFhj # @ChrisGerhard proportions? in reply to ChrisGerhard # UK Ex-Pat News: From Sunday, "Desert Island Discs" is finally a podcast. Plomley Estate must have caved at last. First guest: Morrissey. # @wrwalke Bombay 10? Link plz. in reply to wrwalke # @jimfinnis

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-11-27

    How to do "Open All Bookmarks In Tabs" in #Chromium – unlike Firefox, it's a right-click option. Right-click on the tab folder. # Brilliant concept! What if the earth had rings like saturn: http://bit.ly/2OO7TC # uk cargobike porn http://www.practicalcycles.com/ #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-11-26

    PC LOAD LETTER http://bit.ly/4WU9NQ <- I've been there # http://is.gd/53kLy – somewhere in the far east a couple of people are watching the city lights # Wikileaks is staging release of 9/11 pager messages "in real time" – why? Not re-enactment. Maybe network testing? http://bit.ly/5WlLqx # With all these comic movie adaptations, when is someone

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-11-25

    http://controversy.wearscience.com/ via @timbray # Explorers of the Universe http://bit.ly/5xSBIC # RIPA: This is what happens to your right to silence and cryptography, in modern Britain: http://bit.ly/8ub38I # #Virtualbox Help : I can get vbox to open on Login to OSX very easily; but how do I get one/more instances to autostart ? # RT @adriana872:

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-11-24

    @Dick They worked (& failed) @ the time of Ali Baba. The cost of replacing them may be too high. Retina scan to login? Federation? No tnx. in reply to Dick #

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-11-21

    #HadleyCRU http://is.gd/4ZFae Climate Research Unit has 200+Mb internal documents leaked. Debate now rages re: funding and 'Juggled' data # wingnuts, moonbats and ecomentalists alike will have a field day with this. #HadleyCRU # HT to @adriana872 for #HadleyCRU 🙂 # Where's a pub in Central London where 10 geeks can all turn up and chat,

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  • May contain nuts^H^H^H^HGuinness

    (Palm Breweries bottles Guinness for the local market)

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-11-20

    @DavWalsh @bendemora @adriana872 @herdmeister He's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson # A new #xtracycle is born – http://bit.ly/39HnYV – are there any more longbike riders in the UK and on twitter? # Must-See Kitty Video <- http://bit.ly/1kL6dd via @bbart # best boingboing comment evar http://bit.ly/1Kb3Ah #

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  • A New Xtracycle is born…

    …from the ashes of an old Raleigh: I’ve not seen any other Xtracycles in the UK, but I doubt this is the first; however it was notable that my LBS completely messed-up the replacement bottom bracket when I brought the naked frame in for servicing, but when I brought in the nearly-finished bike they a)

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  • Twitter Updates for 2009-11-19

    MUST WATCH: Human Cat Perch – via @carriebish http://www.wimp.com/catperch # @r4today keeps advertising the upcoming Purcell weekend on BBC Radio 3. Dazed, I wonder: "Why do a weekend about detergent?" #imwakingup # All this fabulous shit that Tweetdeck does, and I can't find the button to manually follow someone. Do I have to add them

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