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Gene Saunders keeps sending me interesting and vaguely security-related links, so it’s probably a good time to post a batch of them: 🙂 Is it possible to be identified by your ‘clickprint’? [yes, but will it stand up in court? – ed] RFID Teen with medical microchip dies in Florida Got ATM?

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Adriana sent me a link to a YouTube video for the Free Hugs Campaign; their website is currently swamped, but I did a little reading around the edges: SMH The man behind the latest YouTube sensation has spoken out for the first time about his global cuddling controversy. Serial hugger Juan Mann describes the free

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Steve Usher Statistical nightmare On BBC Breakfast News just now they were talking about a new report on mental health provision. The presenter, Suzannah Reid, went through a number of “damning” statistics in an incredulous manner. Included in the list was this gem: “46% of health trusts are below average performance.” Hmmm…. So, 4% more

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One for Simon: bianchi The Models Four Racing bicycles, three MTBs and one Street Bike. A SINGLE colour solo: RED. The names, taken from the motorcycling world past and present, are sure to conquer even the less attentive consumer: FACTORY, FACTORY 900, FACTORY 900R, FACTORY 900XR for the racing bikes. Factory as the name of

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Stop for a moment. You should look at this photograph: APOD Explanation: What’s that pale blue dot in this image taken from Saturn? Earth. The robotic Cassini spacecraft looked back toward its old home world earlier this month as it orbited Saturn. Using Saturn itself to block the bright Sun, Cassini imaged a faint dot

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…of course; the cost to the British economy of dogs eating RFID chips is so great that of should instead immediaely embark on nationwide rollout of human-implantable chips… BBC News Dog starts car after eating chip A breakdown patrol man who came to the rescue of a woman motorist has managed to get her car

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Says it all, really… Yahoo! RICHMOND, Va. – The Rev. Jerry Falwell acknowledged on Sunday that he said if Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton were the Democrats’ presidential nominee in 2008, it would motivate conservative evangelical Christians to oppose her more than if the devil himself were running.

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So I receive an e-mail from a list I am on: Dear […], You are invited to be part of the live studio audience of a very special edition of The Sharon Osbourne Show starring the International megastar LIZA MINNELLI. …and your first reaction is what, she’s not dead yet? Bad sign. Bad, bad sign.

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Maybe don’t fly BA. Grauniad Air traffic controllers monitoring a British Airways jumbo jet were stunned at the pilot’s decision to try to “get as far as we can” after an engine caught fire on takeoff, a transcript of discussions between the plane and the control tower revealed. The controllers in Los Angeles expected the

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lj-jwz. harris’ book is still in my instack, but getting higher.

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Well it sounds like normality is returning… 24dash Clarkson, a Sun columnist, said in the newspaper: “In the wee small hours of Thursday night, just 30 hours after what is almost certainly the world’s fastest ever car crash, Richard Hammond suddenly sat up in bed opened his eyes and asked what had happened. “‘You’ve been

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YouTube – “Adult Swim bumps are made using special high tech computrons” and then proceeds to take the rise out of MS and Apple… short and sweet. A BartLink(tm)

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