Dropsafe

With Kurt Sauer.

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…with Andy Hamilton, Marcus Brigstock, Simon Hoggart, someone wearing headphones, Harriet Cass, Jeremy Hardy and Alan Coren. Current show available at: [www.bbc.co.uk]

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Today’s APOD is like a flashback to the 60s. Likely to turn up here [antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov] from tomorrow.

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So I’m awake early – I always get up super-early on changeover day, weird tradition of mine, I gather that you’re meant to lounge in bed for the extra hour – and the News is full of this: [news.bbc.co.uk] Public transport ‘drink ban plan’ A ban on passengers drinking alcohol on all forms of public

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Frankly I’ve been counging the hours until this happened: [blogs.motorbiker.org] MCNs Scoops The New BMW R1200GS-Adventurer UK motorcycle magazine, MCN, got a scoop. They managed to print the first photos of the new BMW R1200GS-Adventurer motorcycle before the official launch this Friday at the NEC motorcycle show in the UK. Official data will arrive on

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HorizonsUnlimited is kinda the central clearing-house website for Long-Distance Motorcycling amongst the Internet generation; they’ve posted their best photos from their readers for 2005, and some of them are must-sees. Visit the website at [www.horizonsunlimited.com] and check out the others.

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Via SuperElf: How to cut Quill Pens from Feathers This is a page about how to cut feathers into useful quill pens. It attempts to go into most of the tradeoffs and possibilities that are possible with one of the most flexible writing instruments ever made. A practical guide to making feathers into something that

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I don’t generally hand out free advice to wannabee hackers, viewing them as I do in the light of the prey, the loyal opposition, or alternatively the poachers who keep us gamekeepers employed. However I shall pass on one small and inconsequential bit of advice which I learned from chatting with Det Sgt Chambers of

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[www.vnunet.com] UK plans nationwide IT security awareness campaign Downing Street promises major initiative, but service providers are dragging their feet Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 20 Oct 2005 A week from today the government will launch its largest public information campaign yet to warn of the dangers of computer crime. Full details have not yet been released

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Yes, it is an in-joke. Sorry. CROWD: A blogger! A blogger! A blogger! We’ve got a blogger! A blogger! VILLAGER #1: We have found a blogger, might we burn him? CROWD: Burn him! Burn! BEDEVERE: How do you know he is a blogger? VILLAGER #2: He looks like one. BEDEVERE: Bring him forward. BLOGGER: I’m

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I just received the following e-mail from a former colleague: Hi Alec, Do you remember a (grim, late 70s) BBC SF series, called 1990? Not easy to google with a title like that, but try: http://www.eofftv.com/numbers/1/1990_main.htm and read the SUMMARY. Yes, it looks like Blair, Blunkett & Clark (BB+C) forgot about rationing. Other than that,

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…you get this: TOKYO, Japan, October 19, 2005 – At the 39th Tokyo Motor Show 2005, Honda Motor Co., Ltd. today introduced a large-size sports motorcycle concept model, DN-01*, equipped with a continuously variable automatic transmission and a water-cooled, 4-stroke, OHC, V-type, 2-cylinder, 680cc engine. Honda will continue the development of DN-01 with the goal

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