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security geeks must read this asap: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43014 # ‘Snyder revealed that a 3 hour and ten minute long director’s cut of “Watchmen” will come out in July’ – big surprise http://is.gd/lT2w # Rodeohead medly. That is not a typo. http://tinyurl.com/2u5p6j # this-pageism: Remember “This page must be viewed in Internet Explorer”? — Now it’s “This

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If you are on a Mac and need to convert Postscript (or other) to PDF, and you are ancient enough to use commandlines, try the attached; I had no idea about convert but found it referenced in /Library/Scripts//Printing Scripts/Convert To PostScript.scpt for i in *.ps do /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert -f $i -o $i.pdf done

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Retr0Bright » home Time to clean up the A500?

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my code is made of purest win # Heavy Snow Shower due Reading, tomorrow pm? wtf? # 2x can Chickpeas, Juice 2 Lemon, 5x Clove Garlic (chop), ~6 heap Tb Tahini, salt, pepper, blitz with plastic blade, add EVOO until flowing. # =best houmous good for few days; was gonna add 1 Scotch Bonnet pepper

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One of the reasons I’ve not bothered switching off AIM Coho-spam yet, is that it is occasionally a source of wonderous surrealism: Perfect.

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6 Ways to Publish Your Own Book compare and contrast (tags: books publishing)

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This is brave, I applaud it, I hope it works out better than I fear it might: http://www.skittles.com/ # RT @adriana872 what r most valuable data from GoogleAnalytics for blog, tell best story? real value is relationships & links, curious for #s # PirateBay seems tohave gone AWOL, hopefully this is not presaging the verdict…

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I have no idea whether I can be arsed to go see this, but I’m blogging it because Peter Gutmann got me a copy of Secret Power which prettymuch broke the story on the real Echelon, and ever since I’ve been dropping in on Menwith when in the area, to count the radomes. This… this

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Economist fan-translation – fantastic; moreso that the magazine does not seem to mind… http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2009/03/01/2775/ # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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BBC NEWS | Magazine | A massive, salty filing cabinet how you store documents in a mine 🙂

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when i was a kid, i wanted a spacehopper but was too tall for one; now i have an exercise ball to sit on, to unkink my back. plus ça change. # fishcam http://tinyurl.com/cesswa # Singing the baseline to Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt” – BWONG BWONG BWONG BWONG BWONG BWONG BWONG BWONG # nice glass

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