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Really, how does this sort of thing help the world at large? [www.christianvoice.org.uk] What is Islam? Politicians, the police and Islamic leaders have portrayed it as a religion of peace in which terrorism is an aberration. Multi-faith diehards insist that it is one of many paths to salvation, or that the Allah of Islam and

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As reported and promised back in September Stan Freberg’s excellent and faintly nostalgic standup set is available for listening this week at [www.bbc.co.uk]

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A 3rd-form British Schoolroom in 1980: Dominic Byatt: (distraught, age 13+) “It’s terrible! John Lennon’s been shot! He’s dead!” Alec Muffett: (age 12½) “Who?” Really, it’s true. At that age I had no concept of Lennon outside of the Beatles, and frankly I still don’t. I find “Imagine” to be a tedious song, not least

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Those three letters that you see so often on zips: Mr. Yoshida called his philosophy the Cycle of Goodness. It means that “No one prospers unless he renders benefit to others”. According to his philosophy, Mr. Yoshida believed he must manufacture only useful, high quality zippers that would benefit, or enhance, the end-use goods in

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The BBC view of The Daily Show: Politicians in the US are desperate to be on the satirical programme called ‘The Daily Show’ because it has solved the problem of getting younger voters to tune in. Audio: [www.bbc.co.uk] Linked from: [www.bbc.co.uk]

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If you’re an American and are familiar with the workings of your own Government – Congress, Senate, etc – and are interested enough to see a contrast, you’ll be amazed to watch a representative sample of behaviour in the British House of Commons: BBC RealPlayer video of today’s Prime Minister’s Questions. Update: FIXED It’s 30

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Wow. [antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov] via [antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov]

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It seems that Blosxom suffers a memory hotspot, so I’m paring-down the article list until I can do some remediation. This drops the core memory footprint from 20 to 6Mb.

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…but then, she was a nurse, and I was having an ECG done. I have a rest heartbeat rate of between 56 and 60, offset by blood pressure at the high end of the normal range. I’m basically normal. Hooray. However I now have several crop-circles on my chest. Might as well take the rest

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Via [www.livejournal.com] and [www.apple.com] I learned that Meatloaf‘s surname is Aday It may be that this really is his given surname, but that didn’t stop me reflexively wondering whether his sister might be Drinka Pintamilk.

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Is this for real? I could imagine quite a few lawsuits hitting any ISP who tried this and managed to block access to virus updates and suchlike services… BellSouth: Let Us Blackmail Web Sites BellSouth has come up with a plan that would even make Tony Soprano blush: It wants to charge Web sites extortion

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