Dropsafe

I would be really interested to give one of these a go: [www.motorcycle-blog.com] We first covered a diesel powered KLR back in May of last year, with a story about F1 Engineering’s military spec bike that was designed to win government, armed forces and law enforcement contracts. Now, it turns out that the bike recently

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[www.timesonline.co.uk] MOTORCYCLISTS will soon be able to weave their biking magic across more of the road if a promised government review gives them permission to ride in bus lanes. The Department for Transport’s current advice, published in 1997, recommends that local authorities do not allow bikers into bus lanes, reports Local Transport Today (March 3),

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IBM Mouse Helps People with Shaky Hands [www.primidi.com]

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I always used to think that fingerprint-based login would be a good idea, but then that was in the days that computing resource was the important thing to protect, rather than user identity and privacy… [www.chinatechnews.com] Fingerprint Identification Technology To Be Adopted At Internet Cafes Fang Chunming, head of the Anhui Provincial Youth League, has

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A lot of my colleagues – myself included – use AIM and the like (Yahoo, MSN Messenger, …) to keep in touch during work hours. I am a recent arrival to AOL Instant Messenger, but have subscribed due to the gravity of the service. This reflects that many of my colleagues believe that AIM is

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[www.cs.huji.ac.il] Colorization is a computer-assisted process of adding color to a monochrome image or movie. The process typically involves segmenting images into regions and tracking these regions across image sequences. Neither of these tasks can be performed reliably in practice; consequently, colorization requires considerable user intervention and remains a tedious, time-consuming, and expensive task. In

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[news.bbc.co.uk] Tony Blair’s anti-terror measures are due to go back before MPs, after peers again voted to amend the bill. Lords insisted that a time limit or “sunset clause” should be added to the bill, which allows control orders to be imposed on terror suspects. The Lords also demanded a higher burden of proof before

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It doesn’t seem to suck. I am impressed. Trailer, below. From: Robert Diamond “The Office” on NBC [www.rresults.com]

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If this is accurate, I will have very high hopes – this could be a line as-delivered-by Tom Baker… [found.pale.org] Quote from the new Doctor Who: “If you’re an alien, how come you sound like you’re from the North?” “Lots of planets have a North” …that said, one of the writers is Steven Moffat, he

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My presentation got a short review by Geoff: Grids for Financial Services – Alec Muffett: Intensely, relentlessly, and amusingly pragmatic and iconoclastic. But you knew that. That’s nice. Possibly as nice as his comment from November 2002: I find your blog bizarrely compelling. This disturbs me. …although I do wonder whether a synthesis of bizzare,

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…and associated networking and socialising. More at [www.crypticide.com] Whilst we’re on the topic, isn’t this the least tactful manufacture of bag with which to be walking through airport security?

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