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I’m the #1 link for why men like pornography! Cool! I’ll bet nobody on blogs.sun.com can beat that! 😎

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It’s a couple of months old, but worthy of a reminder posting, plus it acts as a pretty good intro to blogging: [www.rsf.org] Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because

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I am still waiting to see one of these things for definite: [mintaka.sdsu.edu]

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[www.kaisersbunker.com]

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If you’re a long-distance biker and are looking to do some high-level route planning, you want maps. Lots of maps. Big maps. Maps you can download and print-out or use Photoshop, Paint or GIMP to scribble all over. The sort of maps you see on blogs like [theadventuresofboz.blogspot.com] [www.geocities.com] [www.crypticide.com] In fact, you want the

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Worth a read: Each week the Magazine picks out snippets from the news, and compiles them into 10 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Week. Here’s an end of year almanac. 1. The UK’s first mobile phone call was made 20 years ago this year, when Ernie Wise rang the Vodafone head office, which

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Construction of a Semi-Replica RCA Theremin.

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This is how I did it, and it seems to (now) be a popular technique: You can work out most of it from the pictures. I removed the windscreen to ease assembly but also because I was replacing it at the time. The mounting was inspired by discussion at [www.ukgser.com] and was tested on a

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[news.bbc.co.uk] Businessman wins e-mail spam case A businessman has won what is believed to be the first victory of its kind by claiming damages from a company which sent him e-mail spam. Nigel Roberts, who lives in Alderney in the Channel Islands, took action against Media Logistics UK over junk e-mails in his personal account.

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Somehow after what I saw and learned this summer, the notion that Swedes like to toast straw goats does not surprise me… [www.usatoday.com] STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) – Vandals set light to a giant straw goat Saturday night in a central Swedish town, police said, an event that has happened so frequently it has almost become

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I’m not much of a memaholic, but I got this from Geoff and it’s reasonably cute. For the benefit of cut-n-pasters: Four jobs you’ve had in your life: Four movies you could watch over and over: Four places you’ve lived: Four TV shows you love/d to watch: Four places you’ve been on vacation: Four websites

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