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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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In the manner of Dave Walker: Happy New Toy To Me, Happy New Toy To Me, Happy New Toy, Happy New Toy, Happy New Toy To Meeeee! …in this instance the new baby is a Canon PIXMA IP5200 Printer which I purchased for the ludicrously silly sum of £62.00 (sixty two quid!) from Amazon. I’ve

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One of the notorious problems of Blogs and RSS is a matter of determining the approximate size of your reader base; many people prefer to use the metric of “the number of subscribers via RSS readership at [foo]”, where foo is any of the big aggregators. So here’s a little list: Bloglines: 35 subscribers Livejournal:

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Key phrase: “I advise clients to put all their passwords to things online in an estate planning document”; that scares the willies out of me, I wouldn’t recommend it. The intent is sound, but I would advise people to put the passwords in a encrypted file under their control, and log the password for that

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Thinkpad go boom. Telsa writes: 22nd September 2006. This used to be Alan’s laptop, an IBM Thinkpad 600 with third-party batteries we bought separately: ie possibly not IBM’s. Last night it exploded. […] Alan was on the other side of the room from the laptop. I was elsewhere. He yelled out, I ambled towards the

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Stormtrooper Effect The Stormtrooper effect, also called Stormtrooper syndrome, is a cliché phenomenon in works of fiction where minor characters (cannon fodder) are unrealistically ineffective in combat against more important characters (almost always the protagonists “equipped” with character shields). The name originated with the armed Imperial Stormtroopers in the original Star Wars trilogy, who, despite

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Funny. (Via)

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Toy U Want.

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cuteness, from bart.

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