Dropsafe

Absolutely stupendous APOD this morning… I think the original version at Thierry Legault’s page is even more impressive, however.

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“There has been some improvement overnight, he is now listed as ‘seriously ill, withhead injuries’, but no longer listed as ‘critical’”.

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So I received a bill for €593.09 from St Omer hostpital, for 1 day’s care and for scraping me off the road. After scanning the document and forwarding it to Bart to confirm my translation, Bart contacted them on my behalf; as-per the handwritten note at the bottom of my bill, if I forward them

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Details at BBC News.

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Geoff wrote: I was updating my profile at the UK social networking site, Friends Reunited, and decided to pay attention to a question that I’d hitherto ignored: “What are your 20 favourite words”. This is what I came up with: love, peace, new, unexpected, honest, whimsy, intense, tranquil, touch, trust, humanism, experiment, imagination, learn, reflection,

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From: Alec Muffett To: Farming Today, at BBC Radio4 Subject: This morning’s episode. Regards the John-Humphreys-style segment this morning, wherein your interviewer spent several minutes trying to nail someone to an opinion about the nutritional benefits or otherwise of Organic Milk, as a customer I can cite one definite benefit: Organic Milk actually *tastes* like

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It’s early. My vocabulary is not up to much. So I’ll just say “this is an abomination” and leave it at that. www.hp.com Slimming photos with HP digital cameras They say cameras add ten pounds, but HP digital cameras can help reverse that effect. The slimming feature, available on select HP digital camera models, is

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Simon Bullen’s Weblog NETWORKS HAVE NO DEFENCE AGAINST CISCO VULNERABILITY So says the man who found it. Cisco has no patch either. Network managers have no defence against an unpatchable flaw in Cisco’s security equipment, according to the person who found the flaw. On Monday Cisco admitted that it could offer no patch for a

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Independent […] No bike can beat a car, even in heavy traffic. You don’t have to drive far to see cyclist taking risks with their own lives and everyone else’s, too. Cyclists mounting pavements, knocking pedestrians over. Cyclists jumping red lights and then cursing motorists who have narrowly missed them. Cyclists weaving in and out

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First, let me take you back to 2004: news.bbc.co.uk Thursday, 18 November, 2004, 16:20 GMT No beef over Bovril’s veggie move Bovril, the beefy drink beloved of football fans, has been stripped of its main meaty ingredient in a bid to boost sales, its maker has confirmed. […] A spokesman for the firm said a

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Ibuprofen does take the edge off the ribs and leave me feeling well-disposed towards the universe – or at very least capable of movement – but 800mg since teatime is probably a tad too much. I’ll keep the fluids up and lay off it tomorrow. Excellent programme on BBC4 tonight; a compilation of all of

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Well there’s good news and bad news; the day in bed – capped by a long, luxurious, hot bubble bath downstairs – worked really well, but the excess of sleep gave me a slightly uncomfy night, but I even managed to rest on my side for 15 minutes or so. The BBC World Service is

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