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2008_07_14-15_vrm08_057 Originally uploaded by dsearls Me, participating in one of Adriana’s Q&A sessions at the recent Project VRM conference at Harvard. I was in a t-shirt and shorts at home, with the cats; they were a few thousand miles away; if nothing else this is a victory for the new high-def features of Skype, and

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Canning Stock Route by Bike 2005 Better index of photos for the CSR crossing. (tags: bicycle photography) FT.com | Should we cyclists bother to wear helmets? Mark me in the helmets are a nuisance category. Depends what you are doing. Not same for Motorbikes, though. (tags: bicycle cycle cycling helmet bikes bike)

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Dave Winer wrote: If you’re going to do an API please use XML. …and I am doing it for a project upon which I am working, but I am increasingly asking “why”? There’s nothing magical about having extra angle brackets, irrespective of the beliefs of the Church of SGML. I think the answer is in

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Normally I am a modest fan of Velorution and Andrea’s blog, but this just appeared on it and frankly it makes me uncomfortable. I am not sure what to make of it, but unless it’s a bizzare form of irony with which I am unfamiliar, I think I will be unsubscribing. [I will rot13 the

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Surly Pugsley in Aussie CSR Adventure! Bicycling through the Australian bush – fantastic pictures. (tags: bikes Travel Australia surly cycles) Canning Stock Route by Bike 2005 Quote: At the end of August I will attempt to cycle the full length of the longest track on Earth with no external support. The route leads through the

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This is one of those great ideas of the “why hasn’t it been done already” kind; the money quote is: “Doctors have always welcomed and valued constructive comments from their patients […] However, the BMA is concerned that an uncensored website could be used in a malicious way against individual doctors or provide a generally

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1975 Unix flaw fixed – The INQUIRER A BUG IN UNIX that has been in existence since 1975 has finally been fixed. The bug in an AT&T version of Unix, which was undiscovered until recently, has been with us ever since the Who’s Tommy flick premiered in London, the first microcomputer the Altair 8800 hit

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Yes! We have a war on cutlery!

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Via several friends: it’s a couple of days old, but: Toddlers who dislike spicy food racist, say report Ian has a phrase for this sort of nonsense: “Oh, bloody hellllllllllllll…”

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Feline Chylothorax ~ Pawprints and Purrs, Inc. Chylothorax is a relatively uncommon disorder in the cat whereby lymph fluid (chyle) accumulates in the pleural cavity. This small cavity lies between the lungs and the inner lining of the chest wall. Normally, only about a teaspoon of clear fluid is pres (tags: buster cats)

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plasq.com – Skitch – Snap, Draw, Share Worth getting for the Mac? (tags: mac software photography art) Penn Elcom – Flight Case & Speaker Cabinet Solutions Maker of flight-case components elfrc – a resource compiler for ELF systems cute, and with a high potential for both amusement and evil. (tags: development opensource programming)

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