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[news.independent.co.uk] Tony Blair joined the growing calls for the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay to be closed after he was questioned about the claims of torture by two British residents held there. Mr Blair was challenged at his regular monthly press conference at 10 Downing Street yesterday over the graphic and shocking claims by…

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Thus speaks David Howarth MP as cited in Hansard: [www.publications.parliament.uk] David Howarth (Cambridge) (LD): I hope that the Leader of the House has had a chance to read a letter in The Times today from six professors of law at Cambridge university, expressing their concern about the extraordinary powers granted to the Government by the…

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[news.bbc.co.uk] We asked for photos of bizarre bike lanes. Peter Owens, who runs Warrington Cycle Campaign’s tongue-in-cheek Facility of the Month site, says this is a personal favourite. Some of the results are truly bizzare, check the link. I am one of the “just because there’s a cycle lane does not mean it’s safe to…

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[news.bbc.co.uk] It is a question a growing number of bank customers are asking themselves as they access their accounts online or withdraw cash from an ATM. The murky world of internet fraud has cast a shadow over online banking, which promised a revolution in the way we manage our money, but has since fallen victim…

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[dorkfest.org.uk]

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[www.mininova.org]

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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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