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More reasons to be happy… Gibson’s Hollywood comeback on hold after De Niro quits film – News, Film & TV – The Independent Mel Gibson’s tentative return to the Hollywood fold hit choppy waters yesterday when it emerged that Robert De Niro had walked-off the set of his comeback film, Edge of Darkness. Amid rumours

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Those of you who’ve come to my house, have met my cats – about 15 years old, brother and sister, lovely personalities. Buster & Suzi. Alas, things are not so good with Buster. Long story short: he has thyroid problems (enlarged) and heart problems (racing, elevated blood pressure) and liver problems (enlarged, 2x tumors –

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Robot IM spammers… they don’t get smarter. [ping! new IM session starts] nigglingtrout: Are you pondering what I’m pondering? [a “pinky and the brain” quote – original, at least] me: maybe how quickly i can block you? nigglingtrout: huh? me: who are you nigglingtrout: you im-ed me me: no i did not nigglingtrout: you asked

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Worst. Advert. Evar. YouTube – match.com – Too Many Hot Women! Attention Men! Can you imagine this playing in the USA on Network TV?

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Nostradamus Fun with MD5 The Cyclaire bike pump: designed in the UK! Brilliant Idea.

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Capsule Addict: A Nespresso Users Forum :: Index – well, I’m gonna join, for obvious reasons…

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Want. End of story.

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No joke. Nine months ago, most major supermarkets were selling dill, mustard and other flavours of pickled herring. From Waitrose to Lidl via all the rest, you could get anything as far as pickled fish went – notably the Spinnaker brand from Finland. Now? You’re lucky to get rollmops, and that’s all. What gives? Is

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It is quite astonishing to learn from little snippets like this, the depth of Stephen Fry’s geekery. The man is positively über, perhaps next he will rewrite Computer Lib for the new century? Stephen Fry » Blog Archive » MacBook Air spawns digital anagrams […] You may be aware that IBM, once the colossus of

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Oy. My emphasis. Candidates Court ‘Big Business Brands’ – WSJ.com Sen. McCain this week is trotting out a new campaign theme called the “economic surge,” a domestic effort modeled after his support of more troops in the Iraq war. He plans to release the “Tech 100” — high-tech executives who back his economic plans, a

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Big surprise. Maybe now they’ll work out the benefit of using IM / fixing their IM infrastructure (where the user pays) rather than a push technology like SMS…. Twitter Ends SMS Support In UK; Says Costs Up To $1,000/user/year Twitter says they’ve stopped sending SMS updates to Twitter users in the UK because of the

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IMG_4701 Originally uploaded by alecmuffett

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