Dropsafe

[ulterior.razorhead.co.uk] – i have just seen it. praise the cillit bang!

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[blogs.sun.com] points to [www.cynicalbastards.com] which yields: http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/ Wank factor of 0.58 This level is classified as low. …and so I fed a few other popular websites at random and it produced the following numbers: www.bbc.co.uk 0.89 www.sun.com 2.56 www.redhat.com 3.07 www.microsoft.com 5.12 www.ibm.com 8.12 I wish I knew the metric by which it is measuring,

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[www.wired.com] extract: Claire Brooks, editor of L Style Report, a trend-tracking newsletter, said: “It’s no longer particularly hip to own an iPod, but it’s definitely not passé either. The iPod has moved from hip accessory to lifestyle classic almost immediately, which is something very few brands are able to do, and certainly none of the

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[story.news.yahoo.com] TROY, N.Y. – Amid the torrent of jabber in Internet chat rooms – flirting by QTpie and BoogieBoy, arguments about politics and horror flicks – are terrorists plotting their next move? The government certainly isn’t discounting the possibility. It’s taking the idea seriously enough to fund a yearlong study on chat room surveillance under

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eek! [www.techworld.com]

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In a similar vein to the below, and reading like an abridgement of one of my favourite books: [ironmonkey.blogspot.com] Step 1. Start with data that shows a positive trend, like this DOT highway fatality data that shows that the traffic fatality rate is at the lowest level ever recorded. This article states the correct conclusion

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I remember September 11th 2001 for a variety of reasons – it came towards the end of my first major motorcycle holiday, it was the last time I visited a particularly intelligent, gorgeous, and sport-crazed Cambridge PhD ex-girlfriend, and it was the time whilst walking back from a Cambridge bookshop to unchain my motorbike that

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I barely know whether to giggle or cry – for many years I have been vexed by “This page best viewed using Internet Explorer at 800×600” pages, and now in a fit of turnabout-is-fair-play Mike Werner writes: [blogs.motorbiker.org] As off this weekend, I’ll be viewing and testing all articles only using Mozilla’s FireFox web browser

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detritus of derrida dispersing: [news.bbc.co.uk]

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So this is how I am receiving all this referrerspam, both for pr0n and for Adminshop.com itself; the pity for them is that I don’t publish referrer data so it all goes down a black hole… [www.adminshop.com] Reffy is a Windows-based mass referrer spammer, which means that it will make a connection to a buttload

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It’s definitely a small world – at the weekend I scanned back through the postings listed on [www.planetsun.org] and found several, from various colleagues, praising a music video done by Sarah McLachan. On a whim – having time, energy, and DSL bandwidth to spare – I click the link and watch the video I think

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…delivery TBD.

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