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Driving back from Droitwich this evening, along the A417/A419, the road rose up from the fog-laden M5 and the fog broke just as I drove past the Air-Balloon Pub, near Birdlip; the sun was just setting and there’s a beautiful vantage point looking down over the county, and I surprised myself by having the wit

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I’m just back from Aberystwyth – more on that later – and whilst popped into a store I heard a very familiar track on the radio… Apparently Nizlopi’s JCB Song is tipped as a possible #1 Christmas single, and gets released in the shops tomorrow. If you’ve not seen the animation yet, here’s the direct

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The music industry is to extend its copyright war by taking legal action against websites offering unlicensed song scores and lyrics. The Music Publishers’ Association (MPA), which represents US sheet music companies, will launch its first campaign against such sites in 2006. MPA president Lauren Keiser said he wanted site owners to be jailed. He

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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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