Dropsafe

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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meteor crater [maps.google.com] trinity test site [maps.google.com]

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Clip from bullet, courtest of jerry: Jander: using maps.google.com you can see the a-bomb test site in nevada Jander: if you go to maps.google.com, click the satellite link, then search for “rachel nevada desert” – then pan the window S/W of where you end up – there’s a round white dried up lake, then futher

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Apparently my blog is worth 13,000 blogshares. dollars. monopoly money. whatever. [www.blogshares.com] Now if only I could monetise that. 😎

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First time I have seen one based in the UK: Sender: jthornton.esq@web.de Organization: [freemail.web.de] Subject: ESTATES OF LATE SIR DENIS THATCHER (BARON) From: John Thornton Esq Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:51:39 +0100 To: jthornton.esq@web.de Mark, Thornton & Lewis LLP Copper Court, Phoenix Way, Enterprise Park, Swansea SA7 9EH London. Fax: +44-870-121-8785 Alternative email: thorntonandlewis@katamail.com

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So Simon Phipps points us at the blogs.sun.com “extrasolar planet” (my term) which like PlanetSun seeks to provide an aggregation for those Sun bloggers who choose not to avail themselves of blogs.sun.com for whatever reason. The strange thing is: although I am cited as the #12 blogger via Technorati linkage – I am happy to

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Regards the accident, Cynthia now has a a write-up explaining precisely what went wrong, and what her current medical status is; that’s augmented by Phil Hawksley who has been talking to her, and we who are the members of her vicarious maillist are organising pledges for a potential fund-raiser to send retired bike mechanic Reg

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From [groups.yahoo.com] From: “Phil” <lists@…> Date: Sun Apr 10, 2005 9:04 pm Subject: Bad News Hi Folks, The bad news is that Cynth had an argument with the dirt in Argentina on Friday. The good news is that she is at least alive to tell us all about it in due course (like when she

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jon katz: I think I just accidently put lighter fluid in my hamburger alec muffett: explosion imminent alec muffett: could be worse alec muffett: could be intentional

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