Dropsafe

Parental Discretion Advisory – I am not joking, some of this stuff would explode the heads of some sweet, innocent Americans that I know. Ever since I heard a copy of London Underground I have been wondering who did it: [www.amateurtransplants.com] Fitness to Practice is an unsettling new CD written and performed by Amateur Transplants

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if people can act under false pretences, do they ever do so under true ones?

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Another of the aphorisms by which I try to live my life is: try to have a different set of tools from everybody else; you need to have a “core set” that is the same as everyone else’s, but electing to suffer difference for its own sake does lead one away from monoculture syndrome –

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Please share your security problems with the Government … I am rather surprised that anyone would ever think this might work. [www.theregister.co.uk] US info-sharing initiative called a flop Nearly a year after its launch, a federal office created as a conduit for corporate America to provide the government with sensitive information about critical vulnerabilities has

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Taken from Holly’s blog – this has exactly the correct sense of surrealism to amuse me, although the danger aspect of it really does not appeal, and it certainly cannot be worth someone’s losing their life, the notion that under every major body of water in northern England there may lurk a small picket-fenced garden

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you have just so got to go and look at [spamusement.com] if you are a security geek…

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This past two weeks I am been mostly coughing; I have the dreaded lurgy with horrible side-effects[1]; that plus a selection of work presentations, significant amount of architecture work on a really really huge grid, and a trip to the London Motorcycle Show to get a new Helmet and a Paddock Stand and a Tank

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Incidentally, the article that Senator Andrew Bartlett cites as being the reason Anna’s situation was discovered, makes harrowing reading: [www.theage.com.au] International efforts are being made to establish the identity of a young German woman held at Baxter detention centre in circumstances that have angered refugee advocates. Other Baxter detainees drew attention to the woman after

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For those who never duck their heads outside of UK and/or US events, may I proffer this piece of reactionary stupidity from the Southern hemisphere: [www.csamuel.org] Cornelia Rau goes missing from Manly Hospital in Sydney, reportedly with schizophrenia. She makes her way from NSW to northern Queensland, where she is found by Aborigines. In NSW

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Well I am not going to go into the reasons why there has been no major update of CrackLib for several years – not yet, anyway, that’s a longer story perhaps for another occasion – but in any case Nathan Neulinger has done the proper Open Source thing and forged ahead on his own, and

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Half tent, half hammock, these look very cool. [www.hennessyhammock.com] Do any of you camping/hiking types use them? (Thanks to Bart for the link)

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