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As far as I know, I am the first person to spot this. Check out Google International Zeitgeist :- Ireland Popular Women July 2005 paris hilton jessica simpson britney spears angelina jolie sherry fitzgerald Oops. The latter one is an Estate Agent company. But you can see how they might think it was the name…

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Just a handful of videos from a project I’m working on, based on the trip this summer; also a few experimental still-frames captured from the video camera, showing the typical state of Norwegian roads – scourmarks, pits, cracks and potholes. RealVideo required. I shall be experimenting with other compressors, too. The stillframes are at original…

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Via Make: So, this guy gets a bunch of FedEx boxes delivered to him, and rather than using them to ship stuff to some remote part of the world, he glues them together to make different kinds of furniture – sofas, tables, workstations, chairs and beds. And, apparently, he actually uses them daily, and they…

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…and other pretty applets at [www.eigelb.at] ; DelayedTrace GalaxyCreator2 Rainbow GrappaWH_White …

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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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