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[www.wandg.com] – found linked from the [www.aardman.com] website.

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Check this out – after KTM’s goof with the Long Way Round folks, BMW are really putting the knife in to the KTM 950 Adventure series with this thing: [www.motoring.co.za] It looks great. I neither want nor merit one, but it looks great.

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[news.bbc.co.uk] See also the BBC’s “Guide to choosing a new pope” [news.bbc.co.uk] Remember: A pope is for life, not just for Christians.

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Smoke signals no pope agreement. “We lack the Pope. The Pope smoke’s black.” Plus I legitimately get to use an apostrophe for comic effect.

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Can someone who is significantly older than me please remind me: I seem to remember Karol Wojtyla being a complete surprise to the media when he was made[1] pope; admittedy his becoming Pope JP2 was very shortly after the death of JP1 who in turn shocked shocked the media (and possibly himself) by dying only

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Chris the Mad Cyclist writes: Thank you Auntie. Doctor Who at is finest and as many have asked for, the return of the cliff hanger. Fabulous. I concur; I believe they overdid the fart-jokes, but I am well chuffed at the new Dr Who. Kudos to the writers and Chris Eccleston and (I’ve gotta say

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Since Katz requested it, here’s an old posting from October 2002 in a blog that I’ve not put up on the archive yet: Culled from and/or contributed to http://www.ntk.net/ Morwenstowe NSA Listening Station [link] Menwith Hill NSA Listening Station [link] Chicksands DF station [link] Aldermaston Nuclear Weapons Research Establishment [link] Fylingdales AEW Station [link] Maiden

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Dan cites it, Scott coined it, but I have to admit to mentally cringing every time I hear someone inside Sun talk about FooTone, ThisTone, ThatTone… It took me ages to work out what the hell was behind the terminology. It seems almost that there is some sort of mythos about telephone “dialtone” in the

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How much iron is there in the haemoglobin in your blood? Like, if you drained 8 pints of blood and refined it into iron?

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Damn! I keep on getting these invitations to bogus conferences and it never struck me to just send them a spoof paper: An MIT student has had a paper consisting of computer-generated gibberish accepted by technology conference WMSCI. The pretentious gathering bills itself as “an international forum where researchers and practitioners examine Systemics, Cybernetics and

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From CNN: WASHINGTON (CNN) — There’s an old saying that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts its boots on. Let it be known that mistakes can travel just as fast — and just as far. Take the case of Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-California, who at a hearing on Capitol

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groom lake, aka: “dreamland” / “area 51” [maps.google.com] (thanks jim) aforementioned nuclear test site [maps.google.com] (note tidy grid of detonations, and the really big one at [maps.google.com])

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