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Ze Frank Yesterday the President defended the war once again, saying “If We Leave, They Will Follow Us Here.” Of course If We Stay, They Don’t Have As Far To Travel…

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Making the world a little more magical, a little more weird, with things in dark places… Wooster Collective TIBET is the type of artist that we absolutely love. He works entirely underground (literally) in Stockholm, Sweden. All of his work is done only in the most hidden of places, and very few people will ever

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From a friend who is the BOFH at a noted London retail-therapy centre: Help desk call today: ‘help our printer is just printing test pages, we’ve fed it 2 reams of paper so far and it’s still going!’

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£121 per kilo? Damn, that must be some good shit… Or it could be that the numbers are out? Jamaica Blue Mountain comes in at only 84 quid per kilo. The movie cited is playing at the London Film Festival, so we know where the inspiration comes from; I shall be interested to see what

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OMGWTF? Building roundabouts is like “supplying a pyromaniac with gasoline and matches”? Billings Gazette Letter: Montanans aren’t smart enough for roundabouts This letter is in regards to the proposed roundabouts on the West End. The majority of Montana drivers are too ignorant to perform the simple task of using a turn signal. Their reflexes are

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According to my “Dossier Transfusionnel”, I have: O NEGATIVE Phenotype Rhesus: C- E- c+ e+ RH: -1, -2, -3, 4, 5, K-1 Kell – KEL: -1 …so I’m O-negative which I knew already, but I’ve been flicking through the relevant Wikipedia article and cannot work out which of the series of numbers corresponds to what

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I like diesels, and this sounds neat. The company website is www.trident-vehicles.co.uk if you want a look at the thing. Independent Supercars are all about statistics, from the obscene asking price through to the terrifying top speed and the untenable miles per gallon. They give the greenies and the pinko car-hating lobby loads of reasons

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I’ve been at Sun 14 years – almost precisely – and today had reason to go trawling through some old filestore, wherein I ran into this gem – the announcement of http://www.sun.com/ I mean, like, the real annoucement. The first time it went live and was announced to the public. On my 26th birthday, to

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Sometimes national stereotypes can be accurate:

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boingboing The US has banned importation of icky Australian delicacy Vegemite (a brown gunky spread that is simultaneously delicious and grody), enraging Aussie expats in the US, who require a steady supply of Vegemite in order to remain functional. The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains folate, which in the US can be added

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2kT detonation on Olympic Stadium (map) 2kT on Nelson’s Column I think I’ll be out of the country.

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BBC News Poaching has brought the hippopotamus population in Democratic Republic of Congo to within a few months of extinction, wildlife experts say. Researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) say the population has halved in the last two weeks. They say the Mai Mai militia has set up camp in Virunga National Park

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