Dropsafe

Well the deposit has gone in, and the ETA is sometime in March: All of the Trice models have good handling characteristics but the XL is superb and really must be experienced. The XL is super-stable because of its relatively low seat height and the result is a Trice, which is fast in a straight

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Further to my recent posting about The Daily Show arriving in the UK, I just got off AIM with a widely-travelled American friend who took me slightly to task: (Notes in [brackets], mildly edited for clarity/grammar/speeling) Him: I think you’re missing something about “The Daily Show“ Me: Hmm? Him: It’s hard to explain… It has

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It’s exactly what every British person will think it means, and nothing to do what any American might suspect. [wellhungmeat.com]

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I really have no idea how successful this will be, but amongst the goodies to soon be arriving on yet another (hooray!) Channel4-Themed Channel – More4 – will be the “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” [en.wikipedia.org] on a 1-day delay. Some of my colleagues in the USA worship this program – but then the

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This is Part 2. You might want to read Part 1 first. There are three kinds of Little Old Ladies in England; there are some who are made of tweed and oak, and others who are made of silver and mother-of-pearl, and some who are made of finest paper-thin porcelain, and the one sat across

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There’s a certain decadent pleasure in going into a moderately posh restaurant and announcing to the staff that you’ld like a table for one, for dessert, please; if the front staff are young – as hotel front staff tend to be – they get this deer-in-the-headlights look, say “Yes, sir.” and then dash off to

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This is just so wrong: [www.ps260.com.nyud.net:8090]

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I wonder if Schneier also gets these things. Nah, he probably gets Mafiosi who want to break into banks. Perhaps I am blessed to only have to deal with… well, the attached. People: be sympathetic to me, and to Alejandra. Once you too were that young and tiny nitpicky interpersonal things were your entire universe.

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In the past 14 days there have been 1185 direct and 780 + 695 + 250 + 225 + 204 + 186 + 159 + 157 + 130 + 98 + 89 + 88 + 87 + 83 + 75 + 72 + 60 + 59 + 57 + 57 + 41 + 37 +

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On the advice of a SunBlogger, I went to Woogle at [www.gujian.net] and fed the phrase “love is blind” into it. The results are/were unspeakable.

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ph33r m3, f0r 1 h4v3 ch0r1z0 nunchuk4s!!!

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If you haven’t watched Rocketboom before, today’s is a perfect example.

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