Dropsafe

Every so often I’m about to stop reading fark.com after yet another religion flamewar, or some mud slinging fest between “both sides” of the political spectrum, or similar tediousness and then something like this comes along: An article gets posted how a Canadian fire truck (responding under a mutual assistance agreement) rushes to help out

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Brad: Have you heard the expression “bacon?” Alec: mmmm? Brad: It’s like spam, but it comes from companies you’ve done legitimate business with. Brad: The continue to send you crap, even though you’ve opted out. Brad: It’s like Network Solutions sending me offers to do my Web site for me, when all I want them

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yahoo news 9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour (three percent) Do the police get an exception for Kevlar?

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PR Inside LookSmart, Ltd. (NASDAQ:LOOK), an online advertising and technology solutions company, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell the Company’s FindArticles.com property to CNET Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNET) in an all cash transaction valued at approximately $20.5 million. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7083292.stm UK universities rise up rankings Britain’s performance in a league table of the world’s top universities has improved, but the US still dominates. Four of the top 10 are British and the rest American. Harvard is top and Yale, Oxford and Cambridge joint second. University College London breaks into the top 10 for the

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Google vs Yahoo! homepages over the years… Spot the difference.

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Sometimes these things are worth reading for the insights they bring; she looks like a kid, and I am not sure if that’s really a Russian power-socket on the wall… yet sometimes I can’t help but vaguely wonder if there’s a real (if mistaken or deluded) non-scammy person behind these things. Ah, but then a

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Here…

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chicagotribune Scattered among the $500 to $1,000 desktop computers available at Walmart.com, one machine stands out. It doesn’t have a unique design, but its price tag looks like a typo: $199. […] The cheap price reflects Wal-Mart’s buying power as the world’s largest retailer and is an aggressive gambit by a Taiwanese company that has

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The Lords Science and Technology Committee report found the internet was “the playground of criminals”. But the government did not agree with its suggestion that lawlessness “was rife” on the internet. Hoo-bloody-ray. Some sanity, for once…

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http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0710filemakermobile.html October 20, 2007 – Apple subsidiary FileMaker will be killing off its FileMaker Mobile product in next week, sources report. FileMaker Mobile 8, which is compatible with the newest FileMaker 9 software, allows Palm OS, PocketPC, and Windows Mobile devices to communicate with FileMaker databases. Sources report the proliferation of Web-ready phones, like the

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…and he is a caffeinated beverage, living in my fridge.

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