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http://www.google.com/mars – following on from http://moon.google.com.

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Via [found.pale.org] :- [declanbutler.info] Cat flu – ‘aaargh plop’, and next-generation GIS I’ve a short article in Nature tonight summarising the situation on H5N1 and cats. I first raised this issue in an article a month back, before the first cases of cat infections in Germany and Austria. Thought you might enjoy this excerpt. “But

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Orthograffiti from acb

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[bowstreetrunner.blogspot.com] Brian’s Brief Encounters has now been taken down, and I’ll be removing the link and adding Blue’s and Two’s link when I get round to updating the template, which should be tomorrow. For those who are wandering why these blogs are going, it is because supervision, Complaints & Discipline/Internal Affairs, or both, are catching

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[news.bbc.co.uk] Many organisations are now having to consider how they deal with employees who blog about their work, and one of the most recent to take up the challenge is the Metropolitan Police. But new guidelines issued by the Met have caused some bloggers to wonder if their weblogs could cost them their jobs. Blogger

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A bizarre rodent that was discovered last year in a remote region of south-east Asia has turned out to belong to a family of mammals that was thought to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago, a study has found. A new analysis of the rodent’s remains indicates that it is a striking

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[news.independent.co.uk] Why every woman needs a wife Like most busy professionals, Sharon Walker spends her ‘free time’ running errands and doing chores around the house. And frankly, she’d rather be living her life. Could the solution be to hire her very own ‘better half’? […] It’s a terrible hassle, my life. First off, this article:

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Roger Waters, a founder member of the rock group Pink Floyd, is under pressure to cancel a planned concert in Tel Aviv in June as a protest against Israeli policy towards the Palestinians. [news.independent.co.uk]

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I am a Principal Engineer (PE) at Sun Microsystems; that statement probably doesn’t mean much to most people reading this, so to put it into context: the PEs at Sun are a diverse community comprised mostly of senior technical field staff – mostly long-termers – who by virtue of being “customer-facing” are not exactly engineers

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[news.bbc.co.uk] “Would I look less dodgy without my rucksack?” I asked. “Dodgy,” he replied. “What about if I wore a suit?” “You’d look like a dodgy bloke in a suit,” he said. “How about if I shaved my beard?” “Dodgy. Just face it – you look dodgy,” came the disconcerting reply. Over the seven weeks

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[worldwearydetective.blogspot.com] The scene: An anonymous provincial town in middle England somewhere. Four plotters gather together in a darkened room. The year is 2008. Plotter 1: Right everyone. Today is the day. Is everyone ready? All: YES! Plotter 1: Is everyone a ‘clean skin’ that has avoided the attention of the greatest security agencies in the

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So I loaded my normal list of cartoons and news for this morning – “Open in Tabs” is such a marvellous feature – and about halfway through my Safari browser flashed-up an error alert – which stops everything – to say: www.errorsafe.com NOTICE: If your computer has errors in the registry database of file system

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