Dropsafe

Last week I got some junk mail – nothing unusual about that, it’s a nuisance but it gets recycled, often without opening. Generally I let it sit in the mail bucket until the end of the week and then sort it our when I have a moment. Last week the catch was lower than usual

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PC World – New Twists and Turns in Palin E-Mail Hack The webmaster of a proxy service believed to have been used by the hacker is cooperating with the FBI to help pinpoint the suspect’s location. Gabriel Ramuglia says he believes the hacker used his Ctunnel service to disguise his identity. Ramuglia is now sending

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Simon Jenkins: Elle Macpherson deserves a medal for defying the health and safety gods | Comment is free | The Guardian Ever since the government suppressed the 1981 Isles report for suggesting that compulsory seats belts might cost lives by encouraging speeding, the psychology of road use has been treated as anathema. The idea that

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Healthy Start : Spicy stir fried okra delicious (tags: food recipe okra) France ban on internet alcohol advertising hits industry – Times Online Long article; looks like regulation on advertising will murder the french booze industry… Why? For the sake of the children? WiFi at Restaurants, Pubs and Bars in London SE1 Free Wifi Near

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BBC NEWS | England | London | Computer terror teenager jailed Hammaad Munshi, from Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, was 16 when he was arrested in 2006. Police found a guide to making napalm on his computer. …yadda yadda Internet yadda evil yadda should be banned yadda give them all “Meccano” like in the good old days…

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Things you didn’t know this morning: Namibia Guidebook The “fog-basking” beetle (Onymacris unguicularis) taps the fog for drink. Although it is ordinarily diurnal, it emerges from the sand on foggy nights and climbs to the dune crest, where water condensation is greatest. Head lowered and posterior raised in a kind of handstand, it faces into

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The greenhouses of Almeria – 20,000 hectares under plastic. View Larger Map Didn’t you ever wonder where those “Produce of Spain” tomatoes you get in mid-winter, come from? Apparently their water-table is dropping.

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WiFi at Restaurants, Pubs and Bars in London SE1 Free Wifi Near Waterloo

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I read this, and it inspired the thought with which I titled this article – replace Gordon Brown with Gordon Ramsay. F***, you call this a balanced budget? It’s f***ing not, you f***ing ninny! Now get f***ing back in there and f***ing do it f***ing again. Has potential. Thailand | Where cookery is crookery |

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LRB · Daniel Soar: Short Cuts LRB on surveillance. Santa Cruz Mountains and <br>Santa Clara Valley wines: Wines for $10 or less Tong speaks! Park Tool Website BRAKE TUTORIALS (tags: cycle bicycle bike cycling brake) Park Tool Website REAR DERAILLER ADJUSTMENTS (DERAILLEUR) (tags: cycling bicycle bike bikes chain) Park Tool Website Chain Sizing Notes (tags:

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Via my pal “Dr Brad”: Political Buzzword Bingo! 2008 Presidential Edition [Print] this bingo card and use it to get through the 2008 Presidential and Vice Presidential debates. Mark the buzzwords as you hear them; the Hail to the Chief square is a free square. If you get five in a row (up, down, diagonally),

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Park Tool Website BRAKE TUTORIALS (tags: cycle bicycle bike cycling brake) Park Tool Website REAR DERAILLER ADJUSTMENTS (DERAILLEUR) (tags: cycling bicycle bike bikes chain) Park Tool Website Chain Sizing Notes (tags: cycle cycling bicycle bike xtracycle chain) Green Tuesday: Birth of an Xtracycle, Part Two | Bike Commuters Xtracycle Assy, 2 Green Tuesday: Birth of

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