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Rachel (for it is she) posted a long comment / summary regards the Ethics questionnaire she gave me: As she who has the Ethics tutorial tonight with this questionnaire and it’s friends I share a few personal and general thoughts in case any one is faintly interested. Alec also found New York Times http://tinyurl.com/2jqgoc which

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plantar_fibromatosis the most common lump on the bottom of the foot explanation for the bump on the left foot arch? (tags: plantar fibromatosis) heathow crash speculation the undercarriage had been crushed and the hold doors had popped clean off their hinges, I was able to simply pick my bag out of the wreckage and carry

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The good news is that I am lighter than I thought I was. The bad news is that my doctor just confirmed that the bump in the arch of my left foot is plantar fibromatosis, or put into plain English: The big tendon which supports the arch of my left foot, and/or the sheath surrounding

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White Dwarf: A game for when you’re bored…

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YouTube – Intro to QEDWiki Cute demo of making mashups… (tags: ibm web2.0 mashups wiki qedwiki)

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Those who desire a feed of my bitchery wit and wisdom shorn of the links which I’ve been browsing and filing to del.icio.us are now free to take such. Not merely are the links indexed in a “linkfarm” category, but also they are all registered to the alecm-links user; both methods of indexing yield their

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BBC: Smith targets internet extremism The home secretary is to outline plans to target websites promoting extremism, as part of efforts to stop people being drawn towards radical groups. Jacqui Smith says she wants to use technology to stop “vulnerable people” being “groomed for violent extremism”. “Stopping people becoming or supporting terrorists is the major

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The Moral Instinct – New York Times Fantastic essay on morality and [what i would largely agree with are] its roots … (tags: pinker morality philosophy) BBC NEWS | Magazine | How to spot a Banksy essential identification 🙂 (tags: news banksy art) Zed on Ruby, Rails, Mongrel, and More – O’Reilly Ruby Zed on

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test for links user for delicious postings

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from the unix fortune file: If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. — Gerald Holton If I have not seen

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BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: From edible to incredible The photos are beautiful and unreal, but the claim “everything you see in this image can be found in the kitchen” is regrettably dubious nowadays (tags: bbc art blogging food photography) Smithsonian Magazine | Travel | The Smithsonian Life List The Smithsonian’s list

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Nanohazard Sign Competition; I like this one:

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