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Party. Pictures 1, Pictures 2. A few extra photos will follow, later, including “death by wasabi”.

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For years I have been on the hunt for the “perfect” motorcycling laptop; something robust with a small form factor with which to do blogging and photo processing whilst on the road. This might be it, so long as it can also run Solaris. (Via)

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BBC News Scotland’s fire services have scrapped hundreds of leaflets after a mistake urged members of the public to jump on a donkey when fleeing a house fire. The leaflet by the Scottish Executive for the eight fire and rescue services was aimed at Urdu readers. The advice was that anyone leaving a burning building

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…if they have to resort to this sort of tactic; people understand that Amazon and Ebay don’t need to know their customer’s identity beyond a certain, basic level (“does a transaction go through uncontested, is there a history of that happening?”) – so resorting to that as a bolster for ID cards will fail… Independent

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Long-term readers will know my appreciation of the game of Poohsticks; for complicated reasons I was doing a search on the topic, and encountered an incredible 360-degree QuickTime panorama of the “real” bridge, which especially if you have a Apple MightyMouse makes an extraordinary browsing experience. I’ve seen similar before, but this one is far

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Networking Porn. Now, if only we could teach Simon to spell properly. Maybe I need to set him up with Firefox 2.x with its built-in spellchecker?

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Apparently I have a Northeastern American accent, possibly New York. Mmm. What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Northeast Ê Judging by how you talk you are probably from north Jersey, New York City, Connecticut or Rhode Island. Chances are, if you are from New York City (and not those other places) people

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“Whaddya burn with witches?” “More witches!” Guardian In scenes reminiscent of medieval witchhunts, Catholic pilgrims in Glastonbury have attacked pagans and threatened to “cleanse” them from the town. Local pagans were pelted with salt and branded witches who “would burn in hell” during a procession organised by Youth 2000, a conservative Catholic lay group. The

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Ray Noorda, of Novell, and William Franklyn.

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Link, with pictures

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Adriana Lukas – doyenne of the British blogosphere and iconoclast of corporate communication – pointed me at an article about Oracle and its new “Fusion” project, which “fuse together various technologies picked up in its acquisition spree” to “improve our customers’ ability to get the job done“. That sounds great, but in the past 15

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In case you’ve not heard: Friday wired Security researcher Christopher Soghoian created the Northwest Airline Boarding Pass Generator in the hope of spurring Congress to look closely at the nation’s aviation security policies, which he calls “security theater.” The site lets anyone create a facsimile of a Northwest Airlines boarding pass, with whatever name they

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