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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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No, really. I have a pretty good track record of getting the neat gadgets about 6 months before everyone else; it’s kinda weird, and I am certainly not setting trends – in fact I am rarely the first to try sometihng since I usually pick stuff up off friends – but something must peg my

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This is my old college buddy Ian, from IBM Global Services. He has something very important to say about presentation decks, powerpoint, slideware and the like. Everyone should watch it – he puts the point very nicely, politely, and in a lovely British accent. Note especially the “Am I bovvered?” question – if you are

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This is really savvy, if potentially a little too late, but I think it might be timed just right. People who follow me on Twitter know that I am buying an Xtracycle conversion kit to overhaul my old steel-framed ’93 Raleigh Amazon MTB (aka “The Hybrid”, now it’s set up for comfort on the road)

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It’s been the stuff of geek jokes for years, but actually I think the idea’s kinda cool… BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Silent gig ‘rocks’ London

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glory that was empire, The | Spectator, The | Find Articles at BNET dad, on colonialism (tags: nigeria colonialism empire) philosophicallexicon.com via Adriana (tags: reference humor philosophy fun) On the funding of open source [on Simon Phipps, SunMink] I remember when I were a lad, "Free Software" was something that you wrote, not worried about

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Why women have the SCARIEST nightmares I can’t compare – by virtue of never having been a woman, I lack grounds – but since the last dream I can at all remember involved the moral quandry of what to do when presented with a jack russell terrier and an indefinite supply of superballs, I feel

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I do not think that word means what you think it means… Update: while I am here, I might as well note that I do think it is kind of evil to require people to use one-click to buy stuff; it’s like walking a knife-edge and maybe they’re hoping to get more revenue with the

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Our obsession with crime is crushing our freedoms | Comment is free | The Observer The story of Milly, an eight-year-old cat who disappeared out of window in Whitstable two weeks ago, has much to tell us about the petty-minded forces that have come to replace proper policing in this country. (tags: Security politics privacy

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