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old-style dave; i like new-style, better valerie receding at speed efi

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George Bush has a blog! And you can ask him questions! And he replies! Well, it sure sounds like George Bush, anyhow… [askgeorgebush.blogspot.com] Mr. President, what are your feelings about Rosa Parks? -Lincoln Johnson Mr. Johnson, I’m glad you asked me that. I happen to be in favor of all parks, national or state. However,

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So I was lying on the sofa watching The Dish, relaxing after entertaining, cooking-for and disposing of a couple of friends and their 7 year-old sprog – American-style Cottage Cheese Pancakes with Maple Syrup, Tea, chat, and a sampler of UK farmhouse and European cheeses – and pondering maybe a nice bottle of Cab-Sav, when

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The one which really perplexes me is image 1903 – “SPACED SERIES 3” – because there wasn’t one; notice that the stylised “3” stencil reappears in red in image 1897. The former one has been around for several months, and the latter looks quite odd, which makes me wonder if it’s a forgery; or maybe

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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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