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…so there’s a flyer through my door saying: WHICH DO YOU FIND MORE OFFENSIVE? A cartoon of Muhammad with a bomb for a turban, or… Muslim demonstrators calling for terrorist attacks on Europe and the ‘extermination’ of non-Muslims. Blah, blah, blah, British National Party, blah blah Winston Churchill blah blah, blah huge gulf between the

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Sad. [www.usatoday.com]

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So I opened the toolshed yesterday, took everythig out, sorted it and trashed the unnecessary stuff that had been hanging around for far too long, washed-out the shed and put everything back. In the process I opened one small, grubby, otherwise unremarkable cardboard box, and therein rediscovered a selection of books – most of which

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[www.whitehouse.org]

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I was just watching my logs, and the following trio of events came in over a period of two seconds: 1143195321 64.151.75.252 GET /dropsafe/articles/news/post20050809161409.comments PEAR HTTP_Request class ( [pear.php.net] ) 1143195322 66.97.174.196 POST /dropsafe/articles/news/post20050809161409.comments Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; MyIE2; Maxthon) 1143195322 64.151.75.252 GET /dropsafe/articles/news/post20050809161409.comments PEAR HTTP_Request class ( [pear.php.net] ) …so the

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Paint your PCB on a wall, mask it and paint over it, strip the mask and use magnets to attach circuitry to the image: [youtube.com]

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…so cue-up the Green Day because from Minnesota comes :- Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority, according to new U of M study MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (3/20/2006) — Americans increasing acceptance of religious diversity doesnt extend to those who dont believe in a god, according to a national survey by researchers in the

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Photo by Steve, as described on monday:- …what they alas have created is a moon-faced overly-made-up-slapper sitting painfully atop a 2″ diameter steel pole. …and it looks even worse at eye-level, I assure you.

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Mailed to me by Geoff via [www.boingboing.net] :- On the Make blog, Phil Torrone recaps Modern Marvels’ top 25 inventions of 2006. Shown here: Matthew C. Grossman’s “Shift Bicycle,” designed to teach kids how to ride a two wheeler. As the tricycle picks up speed, the rear wheels get closer together, until they merge into

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[enjoyment.independent.co.uk] – if you’re going, Dave, book me a ticket: If Tony Blair needed confirmation that things can only get worse, the imminent defection of Alan B’Stard to New Labour will surely suffice. When Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran created the monstrous Tory MP for the 1980s television satire The New Statesman, the Conservatives were

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As Rob Diamond said to me: “WTF? [www.amazon.com] ”

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My query: Recently – from coverage in the Times and from various Internet resources[1] – I have become concerned about the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill; coverage of the bill verges from the scathing to the mildly hysterical, but throughout there emerges in the articles a common theme of its providing an all-too-easy “shortcut” for

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