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WANT: contact lenses with astigmatic correction at 45 degrees from vertical/horizontal planes. Suggestions? # Do you get the feeling that someone was trying to recapture the “snakes on a plane” viral zeitgeist? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1350498/ # Yay! New Mac Mini and 48 bottles of wine arrived. I am sorted for *weeks* 🙂 # This is what happens

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The teenager in me says ‘want’ – RT @bbart: http://www.easternyachts.com/grandturk/ Nice ship. Self-financing, even. Arrrr. # Wikileaks: An excellent report into management and how it can go wrong… http://is.gd/zcEB # Anybody using Django Piston ? Am looking for voice-of-experience … # Watch a meme go viral *really* fast: http://is.gd/zhpG – I want one of those

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will someone *please* make “skype for linux” capable of using tabs rather than separate windows for conversation, cf: skype for mac? # G5 iMac is semi-dead, am getting Mac Mini. Need firewire 800 -> 400 hub, for multiple legacy fw400 devices. Suggestions? #apple #imac # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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first light on the new weber bbq – fantastic sirloin steaks (2m30 each side) and corn (15m, turned twice) – next to do something bigger # where meteors come from – # meteor sources – resend: http://is.gd/yNRQ # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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want. http://signaltheorist.com/?p=91 # http://twitpic.com/4uasg – #openhacklondon wry comment upon wifi networking over lunch; apparently it’s an infrastructure issue # met carsten volkery from der spiegel online, tried to explain “community” to him… # seeing photos of @kevinmarks and @blaine on @mattb’s preso at #openhacklondon. scary… 🙂 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Cool business model : Up for auction, two creative, social media strategists – # Cool business model : Up for auction, two creative, social media strategists – http://is.gd/xLjM (retweet) # The problem with the Data Portability project is … http://is.gd/xRFs # at #openhack listening to simon willison of django fame, talking about the #guardian data

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/me is marvelling at the ability of SunSpace to bring my browser to its knees… # Rupert Murdoch claims booming subscription revenue at #WSJ – would you pay to get to the WSJ website? Other news source? http://is.gd/xl85 # How to mislead a thousand journalists: http://is.gd/xH7W # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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So I was on the UK Apple Store website, speccing out a Mac Mini. When you go to the Mac Mini store page, it offers you two base systems which you can configure to your liking – one low-spec, one somewhat higher. We will call them “low” and “high” My suspicions were aroused by accident,

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Different spin on recumbent bikes… http://is.gd/xenk # something tells me that in 5 years, it’ll be considered baroque http://is.gd/xe8b # iMac G5 on hardware test loop – cracked open case and dusted, installed Tiger and tested – still occasional panics. Suspect dodgy DIMM… # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Who, if anyone, is doing hackday this weekend in London? http://www.hackday.org # presume there should be a #hackday on that last tweet 🙂 http://www.hackday.org # secretly, i always get nervous when there’s a shuttle in orbit nowadays. two tragedies too many. # bbc @the_magazine demonstrates tragic ignorance of Paul Erd?s, ascribes to kevin bacon all

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GCHQ denies pursuit of intercepting *all* communication: http://tinyurl.com/csgk2y # vintage malt does not glow in the dark. http://is.gd/wzXY # perhaps it’s just because i notice the number, but it is quite frequent that I have 1337 unread e-mails on my Mac # Can you edit (add to) the membership of a group in DestroyTwitter? If

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