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Credo. Via Geoff. An Athiest At VA Tech (…) We atheists do not believe in gods, or angels, or demons, or souls that endure, or a meeting place after all is said and done where more can be said and done and the point of it all revealed. We don’t believe in the possibility of

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Shame, I think, although in some way almost fitting. I suspect one of the ones that got destroyed in February was the balloon one on the South Bank… BBC News London transport workers have painted over an iconic mural by “guerrilla artist” Banksy estimated to be worth more than £300,000. The image depicted a scene

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…is that people can hijack it, using Google. Enough said. (via Geoff)

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Long-time readers will remember that in October 2005 I went to see Inspired Cycle Engineering in Falmouth, because I wanted a recumbent trike; incidentally the pictures of that trip have been moved to Flickr in a recent reorganisation, but the blog posting is still intact at the original URL. Well I’ve had a good year’s

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Adobe unveils Flash video control Adobe has unveiled a version of its Flash media software to let copyright holders embed ads and control usage. The new software should also allow video to be played offline, whether on computers or portable devices. Flash is used on websites such as YouTube, the Google-owned video sharing site dogged

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Sun’s Guillemont Park campus has for several months been host to a pair of Egyptian Geese – presumably feral escapes from somewhere – and only one of them had been seen much for the past few weeks so I had supposed the other’d been taken by a fox. Not so! On sunday I stopped into

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I’ve seen this effect with baby shampoo, though I never stopped to ask what causes it; my tragic loss. In slow-mo it’s lovely though. http://www.kirchersociety.org/blog/2007/04/16/the-kaye-effect/ via Charlie in Colorado

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Alan once told me about a horror-game he worked on in a previous life, which involved attacking chicken carcasses with secateurs in order to get the requisite sound effects of cutting-off peoples’ fingers… Seems nothing much is changed, ‘cept nowadays they use vegeatables. (via Bart.)

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laureen hudson: Very few people have twigged to the reality that much of my passion for things is driven by nothing more complex than sleep-deprivation.

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…sent from the N800. 🙂

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The Nokia’s arrived as mentioned :- …and the keyboard is working nicely; as for the OS, it is everything I expect of a Debian-based distribution – underpowered by default, peppered with corrupt downloadable packages which require manual intervention using apt-get and dpkg to fix the package database which they’ve silently corrupted (hint: avoid the ‘zsh’

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The Eye Of Argon – from the Amazon review: This is not a hoax. Jim Theis was a real person, who wrote The Eye of Argon in all seriousness as a teenager, and published it in a fanzine, Osfan in 1970. But the story did not pass into the oblivion that awaits most amateur fiction.

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