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[news.bbc.co.uk] Smoking ban in all pubs and clubs MPs have voted by a huge margin to ban smoking from all pubs and private members’ clubs in England. Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt said the change, expected to take effect in summer 2007, would “save thousands of people’s lives”. Ministers gave a free vote amid fears Labour

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I’m having a clearout: cook an egg using two cellphones [www.wymsey.co.uk] zones faq at opensolaris [www.opensolaris.org] groupm35 leica b&w photography [www.groupm35.com] how to fold a handkerchief [www.ehow.com] WWII reconnaissance photos [www.flickr.com] wardriver box [www.wardriving.ch] mr snugglepuff you want [home.earthlink.net] woodland burials [www.woodlandburials.co.uk] wolfram tones [tones.wolfram.com] 2005 foot-in-mouth awards [wired.com] quotes [www.bleachedskulls.com] water rockets [ourworld.compuserve.com] warning

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Happy Singles Awareness Day … …for today, or tomorrow, as appropriate. [en.wikipedia.org]

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wtf?

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…delivered to your room at the W Hotel, Newark; photo from the room-services directory; see the bottom two paragraphs.

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Darren gets his own clock …

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[www.theregister.co.uk] NSFW Here’s a Friday poser for you: you’re a member of a highly-advanced alien civilisation and have just travelled to Earth in your hyperdrive-powered craft intending to enjoy a long-weekend break. The trouble is, you can’t decide whether to: a) nip over to rural Idaho, abduct a farmhand and anally probe him before modifying

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[www.eff.org] Google Copies Your Hard Drive – Government Smiles in Anticipation Consumers Should Not Use New Google Desktop San Francisco – Google today announced a new “feature” of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy. If a consumer chooses to use it, the new “Search Across Computers” feature will store

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Eighteen or so years ago I was at University trying to narrowly fail to flunk my degree whilst learning how the world worked. Of the many projects into which I threw myself, one of the most formative was working on Pi Magazine, then as now the student magazine of University College London. For most Universities

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Microsoft changes blog policies SEATTLE, Washington (AP) — Microsoft Corp. is tightening its policies regarding shutting down Web journals after its much-publicized shutdown of a well-known Chinese blogger at that government’s request. The Redmond software company, which operates a popular blogging technology called MSN Spaces, said Tuesday that the changes will include efforts to make

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With the postscript “Enjoy the liberation while you can, citizens,” the Web site Crypticide recently unleashed a way to beat Google’s censoring of its new Chinese search engine results. [www.eweek.com]

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