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Awwww… [news.yahoo.com] @COLUMBUS, Ohio – Police aren’t sure how else to explain it. But when an officer walked into an apartment Thursday night to answer a 911 call, an orange-and-tan striped cat was lying by a telephone on the living room floor. The cat’s owner, Gary Rosheisen, was on the ground near his bed having

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Really, the only thing I can say to this is “WTF?” [news.bbc.co.uk] Non-paying parents may be tagged Parents who fail to pay child support money could be tagged, Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton said. Mr Hutton said the idea was being examined as part of reforms of the powers of the Child Support Agency.

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Geoff wrote me up: Arguments and relativism Step 1. Go to Alec’s blog and read this fine piece on the frustrating tendency of people to turn arguments about substantive issues into debates about how we feel about these issues. Step 2. Go to Edge.org and read through the pieces that were submitted in response to

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…and whilst we’re on the subject of the P-word, I was vegetating in front of the television over the Christmas break, and decided that – from my personal perspective – the deepest, darkest, outright sexiest woman I have ever seen act is Elizabeth Taylor in her lead role in Cleopatra. It doesn’t matter to me

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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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