Dropsafe

I today had cause to send out the following e-mail: [ With regard to e-mail composition ] Graphic signatures are evil and should be avoided. HTML text bodies are evil and should be avoided. Replication of body in HTML and Text is evil and should be avoided. …not least for reasons of accessability for the

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Wonderful read: [enjoyment.independent.co.uk] To its detractors – and there are many – it’s the brand that refuses to die. An anachronism. An unwelcome, unappetising reminder of wartime austerity. Designed to be spread thinly on slices of wholesome, hard-earned bread, it evokes the pre-consumer age, when larders were bare and housewives had to make a little

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[en.wikipedia.org] It seems to be inherent in human nature, but most particularly in the male members of the species, to enjoy watching an everyday object or creature simply explode in the most comical way imaginable, as in a real-life situation, the probability of this type of event actually occurring is incredibly low.

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A back-to-back tandem recumbent trike: [en.wikipedia.org]

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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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