Dropsafe

Well I know where I am going to be next monday night: [www.skyone.co.uk] Maybe it’ll even make bikers respectable…

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The question nobody is asking: what is the market value of software that costs nothing to download and use? [linux.slashdot.org] …eat your heart out, Epimenides.

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For those who like to analyse geek environments from the perspective of “how highly effective geeks do their work” – may I strongly recommend watching Danny O’Brien’s LifeHacks video, as-is available for download from the NotCon04 archive website. The analysis and “ticklist” of habits that seem common to various net.notables somehow seems to reflect my

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This is a clipping from a maillist I am on, pursuant to someone’s question about how to [I/other people] “blog”? I suspect that my response is mildly heretical as far as some people will be concerned, but nonetheless they may amuse some… My response to the question below probably also illuminates why I choose to

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[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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