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Another in the Google Provocations series: I’ve found some truly corking google searches in my logfiles in the past few days: christmas tags of motorcycles waterloo cute redhead crack program open scrambled hot bird channels fart doctor media download Beethoven’s 5th Movement fart hoax picture of bridge denmark and sweden pronounce aberystwyth st paul’s pillow

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How to comprehensively block lunchtime pedestrian traffic within Sun’s main office concourse: Position yourself at a prominent table next to the coffee shop, in the concourse area in building 2, en-route to the cafeteria. Wait until any of a number of geeky colleagues and friends happen to walk by. Wave a copy of Make Magazine

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Slightly Engrish, but I think I know what they mean: [www.honda.co.jp] – Let’s Play Pocket! I must say I think it’s quite nice, in a bonkers sort of way.

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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:50:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Jason Subject: Cracking can you crack a program for me.. I need the serial number to it.. please respond.. “No, Jason, I cannot.”

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This is the sort of thing which I used to dream of doing, when I was a kid: When we realized no one had yet launched one in a rocket, we set out to be the first. The rocket of choice was the Estes X Prize Canadian Arrow. It has a very large nose cone

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I think these guys rock, and they result of their efforts makes installation of complex freeware on Solaris a trivial affair. They should not go under. [www.blastwave.org] Dear OpenSolaris Community : I need to ask the Blastwave and OpenSolaris communities for your help. Despite my best efforts at gathering corporate sponsorship, Blastwave is once again

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I got some of this stuff from a local chocolatier on saturday. Superb stuff – the orange, particularly, although I do like the Strawberry & Pepper, too.

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Awww…

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The results look like this: WARNING: Unable to determine keyboard type WARNING: TOD Oscillator NOT Running, Kickstart in Progress … Incorrect co Setting NVRAM parameters to default values. Setting diag-switch? NVRAM parameter to true Probing /sbus@1,f8000000 at 0,0 dma esp sd st le Probing /sbus@1,f8000000 at 1,0 Nothing there Probing /sbus@1,f8000000 at 2,0 Nothing there

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A while ago, some friends and I were hanging-out on a chat system, and having just bought the R1200GS I wondered out-loud why there were no shaft-drive bicycles. We mulled the idea around, decided some of the issues, and I think deemed it unlikely to happen… but somebody’s done it anyway! And it looks cool!

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I like Rich. He has a warped and twisted sense of humour. This could turn into a FARK-style “Photoshop This” challenge.

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The Official God FAQ.

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