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I have one friend who raves about her favourite chocolate shop, and I have another who raves about his. Really must do a comparison sometime. In the meantime, the latter (Tom) has pointed me at Kinetica in Spitalfields, which looks interesting.

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More silliness via Gene: http://www.cowabduction.com/

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Indepenent The gourmets of the San Francisco region always fancied they owed a thing or two to the French – from the country-style dining in the Napa Valley to the ambitious, foie gras-laden menus at the city’s top eating spots – but the French don’t seem too keen to return the compliment. Michelin has just

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El Reg Russian customs officers have unearthed a mile-long pipeline through which ingenious smugglers were pumping home-made vodka to Latvia, Ananova reports. The tube was discovered six feet underground in Buholovo by workmen digging holes to plant trees. Local border cop Yakov Kabanov said: “We had our suspicions that there was someone running hooch across

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I was sent this link by a fellow geek: DIFRWear Our RFID Blocking Wallets ensure that cards with RFID tags within the wallet can NOT be read while the wallet is closed. This gives you the ability to control when, how and by whom your cards are accessed. To allow the RFID tag in the

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Ananova Police in Poland have launched a nationwide hunt for a man who farted loudly when asked what he thought of the president. Hubert Hoffman, 45, was charged with “contempt for the office of the head of state” for his actions after he was stopped by police in a routine check at a Warsaw railway

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Time for a general purpose update: First me: the repair continues, the ribs are the big nuisance because i keep recracking them, like the three or four that went last night when I tried to lie down on the carpet in front of the fireplace. There was a nasty cracking sensation from my left side,

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So how long would your PC work, if you started pulling components off the Mobo at random? And would it work better? … Pete Jenkins When I arrived at my folks house I noticed a DVD player yanked out of their TV stand sat on the floor. “It’s Alice’s and its broken” I was told

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Everyone please do me a favour and add a comment to this posting when you hear “Eigenvector” used by someone who does not know what the word means. I did three years of Astrophysics, and I didn’t do it to let business-management folk get away with abusing my vocabulary: Eigenvector In linear algebra, the eigenvectors

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The Cycle Show, ExCeL, Docklands. 6-8 October (Public) ie: This weekend upcoming. Who’s going, and when?

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Things not to do together #14567: Listen to the Verdi’s Anvil Chorus while doing the ironing. The water in the iron goes everywhere and you burn your shirts. (Via)

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Wow, someone finally spotted that. Took bloody long enough. Independent Hotels make ‘extortionate’ charges for wi-fi access Once, it was the great telephone rip-off, when hotels charged business travellers huge amounts for calls made from their room. Now, according to a new guide, they have found a fresh way of fleecing guests – by adding

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