Dropsafe

Given the number of people I know who are to various extents into self-sufficiency, alternative lifestyles, communal living, eco-activism and the like, I’m astounded to have not come across WWOOF, “wwoofers” and “wwoofing” before: Wikipedia World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (also known as Willing Workers on Organic Farms) (WWOOF) is an organisation which facilitates the

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so i’m lying on the bed in the front room, sprawled out with the crutches and leg-brace on the floor beside me, watching some trashy “lives of the hollywood celebs” documentary on some random satellite channel. all of a sudden there’s a fluttering sensation on the left side of my waist, then a then a

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Well I’m being repeatedly asked “how’s it going”, so it’s probably time for a bit of an update on my post-accident progress. The ribs: these continue to be the most annoying of the injuries, but are steadily improving: Last thursday was the first time I managed to bend over, pick something – a catfood bowl

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Mac fans, check this out. “A screenshot of Windows Gadgets in Windows Vista build 5536.” Look familiar? (Another quality BartLink)

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http://www.links.org/?p=130

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I kid you not. Argh, my eyes. Anyway, I hope they’re flameproof, because on September 12th, 2006 Nukeuler War Begins! Make your time.

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Life imitates Schneier, sorta: Guardian Half a million household wheelie bins have been secretly tagged with hidden electronic “bugs”, it has been reported. The tiny devices identify each bin so that records can be kept on the waste disposal habits of its owners, and up to 500,000 bins in council districts across England are thought

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Wow, this sounds really familiar… netsplit Upstart is a replacement for the init daemon, the process spawned by the kernel that is responsible for starting, supervising and stopping all other processes on the system. […] Why change it? Running a fixed set of scripts, one after the other, in a particular order has served us

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This is weirdness: my old stomping ground of University of London Observatory cut into a David Hasselhoff advert for Pipex broadband: …he’s probably never been to the site, and it’s clearly been photoshopped, but I still find it creepy. Maybe I’ve been hanging out with too many Germans?

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This is hilarious and tragic – the po-faced reactions of security personnel in the face of an iPod accidentally dropped down an aircraft toilet: WoW “So, I had an iPod before I went to the bathroom, and now I don’t. I think I know what’s in the toilet.” We had a quick conversation. I told

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350mph in fifth gear, and it’s not even gone into top, yet… azom On Tuesday, JCB DIESELMAX became the world’s fastest diesel when Green drove it to an FIA-sanctioned speed of 328.767mph (526.027kph). Today he improved on that significantly with a new record of 350.092mph (563.418kph) after two passes in opposite directions, within one hour.

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Amongst many other wise insights, via Adrian, comes the fear that the new Skype ap2ap (application to application) communcations API may lead to stupid monkey people programmers leveraging Skype as a communications web for mundane tasks that are best served by your actual TCP/IP that runs over your actual Internet. Adrian Cockcroft The essential characteristics

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