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I have a new trike speed record: …39.0mph, up from 34mph; this is due to the new front Stelvio tyres, the lowered riding position, a modest amount of tuning, and a set of shorts which don’t act like parachute air-brakes. Next stop 40mph; and then I’ll make a fairing…

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rofl: c|net getting lazy with clip art – from ThinGuy

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One of the things I love about Peter is the way he can look sideways at prettymuch anything, and will come up with an observation so stunning you can’t comprehend why nobody really noticed it before… The only thing he neglected to include from this posting is the legend “Powered by Microsoft”; perhaps they should

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…then you’ll probably like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjeh6P4sRfw Music video for “Elephant Gun” from Beirut’s Lon Gisland EP. Mustachioed debauchery set to a ukulele-accordion waltz. Via Ze.

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Since ISO may be going down the plughole – swept along by its deadly embrace with its petitioners – I would suggest we go ask the SI folk to whip up a new metric for bureaucratic corruption: call it the ‘soft’ and define it as the one million times the amount of money necessary to

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&A lovely evening, and with so many friends from Sun, and so many of Asad’s family & friends … 🙂 Here’s the link to all the photos in the album and if you follow it you can click View as Slideshow to see them on autopilot.

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Get the latest update. On a Mac, do Opt-A http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/31/google-earths-easter-egg-a-flight-simulator/

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Stop Carbon Ads? On London Bridge? Originally uploaded by alecmuffett Culled from today’s pictures. Hard to say if it’s anti-climate-change-activism, or anti-faux-environmentalism…

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Just back from Minibar London – it was nice, I wish there had been more speakers, but the guy from Moo.com was amusing, as was the chap from the company beginning with “Z” who were doing something about search for real-estate/lettings and other things… er, yeah, well I was at the back and the audio

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Via Bart. Too silly not to watch. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770138

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Surprisingly sound… The TUC is advising companies that the outright banning of such sites in the workplace may be something of an “overreaction.” Instead, the group said, it’s much better to focus on setting up formal policies for acceptable use of such sites in the workplace.

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How a techie company *should* explain when it goofs up: Dreamhost: It All Falls Down Via Jim.

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