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BBC NEWS | Technology | Net firms in music pirates deal […stupidity elided…] BT, Virgin, Orange, Tiscali, BSkyB and Carphone Warehouse have all signed up. May I recommend Zen Internet? They are my ISP and I have a good relationship with them…

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Trike towing a MTB? Originally uploaded by alecmuffett I tried it, but in truth it didn’t work. I did a test run around the car park and on cornering the pivot of the MTB headstock was too far from vertical to function properly, and on a sharp corner the MTB broke its moorings and fell

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…by my colleague Steve Elliott Stupendous pics, Steve.

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Go read: http://beezari.livejournal.com/141796.html http://blog.invisibledenizen.org/2008/07/kaminskys-dns-issue-accidentally-leaked.html http://addxorrol.blogspot.com/2008/07/on-dans-request-for-no-speculation.html [

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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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