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Concept: Next US Presidential Election (2008?) Clinton vs: Rice. Who wins? Hmm?

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After dozly hearing the news on the radio yesterday morning, it struck me that the new definition of a planet would surely certainly pull in at least one of the asteroids, and lo it appears I was correct, as explained at Steve’s masterly summary of the planetary situation. I was kinda hoping that Vesta would

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Link at The Raw Feed.

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From an IM conversation with Rob Diamond: Rob: Are you up the whole “the Internet is a series of tubes” thing? Alec: nooooo ? Rob: OK, must fill you in… Rob: The crazy senator from Alaska gave this bizarre speech, in which he described the Internet as a series of tubes: http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/?entry_id=1512499 Rob: Which really

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The solution to ATM PIN fraud, for mathematicians? (From the Wooster Collective)

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http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2006/08/14/banksy_in_brook.php Another Diamond Link.

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I’m in the curious situation where I am recovering, but bits of me now are more tender painful than they have ever been before – I suspect that formerly they were so mashed that they weren’t in a position to report pain, but now the nerves are healed and having a whale of a time…

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One for both Messers Gerhard and Finnis: icwales Welsh-speaking cyclists have been left baffled – and possibly concerned for their health – after a bizarre translation mix-up. For instead of a road sign telling them to dismount, the Welsh translation informs them that ‘bladder disease has returned’. […] Owain Sgiv, an officer for the Welsh

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For those who imminently predict the death of mainstream media – mentioning no names – this review of the Snakes on a Plane phenomenon makes a point with which some might sympathise: Still, don’t think for a moment that audiences have hijacked the ship of Big Media. The permutations of creative online infringement — fan

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Yet more evidence that the American public are discovering sarcasm; if you are old enough to remember nuclear terror done properly – of the sirens, megatonnage-per-county and “how much of England might actually be left habitable?” sort – then you’ll probably find this about as funny as I did: ReallyReady: FAS Analysis of Ready.gov The

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The sort of behaviour upon which Mr Gerhard frowns: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR2ygFn-yR8

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Yesterday a possible terrorist plot was thwarted. The country’s airports were in chaos. American media has provided wild speculation that we are re-reporting because we can’t think of anything else to talk about, since there is no new information today. Nobody has thought to go sift government press releases for information they are trying to

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