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Ryanair picture caption: “NEW AIRPORT SECURITY PROCEDURES PUT FUN BACK IN TO FLYING” [note: possibly nsfw in narrow-minded or non-european environments]

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Sydney Morning Herald A REEL of film held for 20 years in a Sydney vault could unlock the mystery of what happened to the original tapes of the Apollo 11 moon landing. The reel belongs to Australian film producer and rock video director Peter Clifton, who had all but forgotten a pristine 16-millimetre film of

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Independent The crash provides a reminder that the Government’s push to get more people cycling, for public health and environmental reasons, does not seem to be matched by provisions to protect them from death and serious injury. Recent figures from the Department for Transport showed that 440 bicycle riders were killed or seriously injured between

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El Reg Now for the fun part. Take your hydrogen peroxide, acetone, and sulfuric acid, measure them very carefully, and put them into drinks bottles for convenient smuggling onto a plane. It’s all right to mix the peroxide and acetone in one container, so long as it remains cool. Don’t forget to bring several frozen

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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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