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This is either very deadpan, or very scary: [www.walken2008.com] “Our great country is in a terrible downward spiral. We’re outsourcing jobs, bankrupting social security, and losing lives at war. We need to focus on what’s important– paying attention to our children, our citizens, our future. We need to think about improving our failing educational system,

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This is the sort of thing I imagine several of my friends enjoying browsing: [www.roadsideamerica.com]

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[en.wikipedia.org] – Nice to see Sun right up there with Microsoft; needs an annotation, though.

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If someone who is bitchy is a bitch, why is someone who is tetchy not a tetch?

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The world’s longest-running TV programme with a single presenter is the BBC’s monthly Astronomy show The Sky At Night; and Sir Patrick Moore – godluvim – has been personally responsible for more people becoming interested in Astronomy than any other, worldwide. The show has been running – consistently – since 1957, and Patrick is considered

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[news.bbc.co.uk] Google has put the brakes on its programme to digitise the books in several major university libraries. In its blog, the search giant said it would temporarily stop scanning copyrighted texts until November to allay concerns about the plan. The company’s library project aims to put millions of volumes online and accessible everywhere via

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[www.embeddedarm.com] It has long been regarded that the UNIX-like OS NetBSD is portable to every type of machine except perhaps your kitchen toaster. Technologic Systems, however, has conquered this last frontier. Using one of its rugged embedded TS-7200 single-board computers housed inside the empty space of a standard 2 slice toaster, Technologic Systems has designed

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For reference by anyone who asks me in future: Up: for any point, the vector of maximal increase of gravitational potential energy per unit distance. I suppose that this could be rephrased as a differential, but I can’t be arsed since the above is actually quite comprehensible to normal people.

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Regarding: [cgi.ebay.com] NASA Satellite Space Flight Hardware Laser Link System This auction is for a lot of actual satellite flight hardware. We know that this item was surplus from Ball Areospace in Boulder Colorado, many of the individual pieces were manufactured by McDonnell-Douglas in St. Louis, MO. We believe that this is a Laser Crosslink

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“Touched by his noodly appendage…” OPEN LETTER TO KANSAS SCHOOL BOARD I am writing you with much concern after having read of your hearing to decide whether the alternative theory of Intelligent Design should be taught along with the theory of Evolution. I think we can all agree that it is important for students to

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Ok, so, this bike is a 100hp 1200cc two-cylinder; it has twin-lens headlights, a half-naked look, a tall seat and long travel suspension that’s tuned for rough conditions or offroading; alloy wheels, slightly knobbly tyres, and an enormous “beak” that projects out from under the headlights in a pseudo-mudguard role. Oh yes, and the flagship

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This has probably been blogged to hell and back, but when I clicked on the link Marek sent me, I nearly creased myself laughing… this seemed completely random until i figured out that ‘jedi council’ was being translated into chinese then back to english as ‘the presbyterian church’. …I can only wonder how it avoided

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