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As reported elsewhere, a band of bikers from Sun went on a collcting rampage on behalf of [www.naomihouse.org.uk] – a local childrens’ hospice – and raised all-told almost 800 quid, which Sun doubled under the charity giving scheme yielding approximately 1600 pounds sterling. As Clive put it: their costs may be running at something like

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NOTICE: THIS IS NOT THE DOOR RELEASE. THIS IS THE EMERGENCY POWER-OFF BUTTON. …on a sign next to an invitingly large black mushroom-shaped button, on the wall of a large datacentre / machineroom, as reported by James MacFarlane.

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I am so envious of this sort of thing: [qotile.net] I’ve got an ongoing project, reprogramming the firmware in these 1985 Epson LQ-500 printers to turn them into musical instruments. I originally just wanted to make a sort of homemade mellotron, but it’s evolved into a much deeper project. These printers (like all printers) have

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How do I configure GNOME (or one of its elements) so that the icons for my Desktop folder are on the right, rather than the left, after (for instance) a “Clean Up By Name” operation?

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A little light decorating. Shoe shopping, and beer/ale restock. A glass of chilled Sauternes. Warm, dry and sunny. Nice.

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I stumbled across the website for Madagascar, the new Dreamworks animation, and amongst the “cast” is a resonably familiar-looking penguin: [1] [2] (both SWF, alas) My only question is whether this is a conscious or subconscious casting. 😎 Full trailer at [www.apple.com] …and it has Ali G in a voice role!

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Via [www.fipr.org] US wants to be able to access Britons’ ID cards By Kim Sengupta Independent 27 May 2005 The United States wants Britain’s proposed identity cards to have the same microchip and technology as the ones used on American documents. The aim of getting the same microchip is to ensure compatability in screening terrorist

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…a LiveJournal SpamBot: [www.livejournal.com]

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Good on you, Judge Roy Anderson: [news.bbc.co.uk] Anti-social behaviour orders have been trumpeted by the government as the answer to society’s loss of respect. But is there a danger they will instead be used to curb its freedoms? Civil liberties campaigners are celebrating after a district judge refused to impose an Asbo on a 63-year-old

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Go read it, now! [www.ibiblio.org]

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…not that it is particularly apropos of anything, nor do I suppose that he is a celebrity whose name many of my American colleagues would recognise. For translation purposes, he’s kinda the UK equivalent of Casey Kasem, but somewhat less old. It was an interesting train-trip into London – physically knackered but mentally bouncy because

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