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why do so many international hard-liquor drinks taste of aniseed? (pastis, advocaat, absinthe, ouzo …) – is it just because (as my mate Bart suggested) the taste is strong and can survive amateur distillation?

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Shamelessly stolen from [www.jumbojoke.com] but deserving of wider coverage not least because it is so resonant of modern corporate politics. I have not the knowledge of whether it truly was penned by Wellington, but the matter is widely discussed on the web. [www.military-quotes.com] [www.bemyastrologer.com] To The British Foreign Office In London Central Spain, August 1812

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The Crypticide project continues – there have been shake-ups at my work and in my private life which have severely eaten into the free time I have to think and write deep thoughts in my evenings, but they should be back on track RSN. In the interim, I’ve decided to make things hard for myself,

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This paragraph, erm, stands out to British readers: While the commission did not say that a “dry hump” is always within the bounds of the commission’s rules on broadcast propriety, the panel did note that “both characters are fully clothed, and there is no evidence that the activity depicted was dwelled upon, or was used

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…here is one of a trio of scans from a visit to the Elan Valley outside Aberystwyth, on my old 125cc back in the Autumn of 2002: The other – small and larger – images are at [www.crypticide.com] ; pictures from a Minox GT-E on Kodak Gold 200, scanned on a Epson 4870.

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Last week was weird. Especially Wednesday night and Thursday morning. The UK has been sweltering for the past few days, with humidity so high that I can only compare it to Florida, and temperatures up to 40C/104F in the direct sunlight fronting my house. There is so much water in the air that the streetlights

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Alec Muffett: Aberite 13 – a trip to Borth goes horribly wrong. Alec Muffett: “Machynlleth, we have a problem.” Nick Palmer: “I’m reading a main bus B undervolt in Sprinter car 2…”

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Whilst messing around with book/film titles… Alec Muffett: The Aberite Candidate Nick Palmer: Wherein Meibion Glyndwr brainwash an English student into assassinating the Sec of State for Wales? Excellent plan!

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take a 6″/7″ wide, reasonably deep, non-stick frying pan add a generous 1tbsp of italian triple-cream butter melt butter on the lowest gas setting possibly. sustain this temperature. in a bowl, beat 1/3rd cup milk, 2 fresh large eggs, and a handful of dried girolles/chanterelles, and a pinch of freshground pepper add to the butter

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My colleague Dave Levy‘s introductory article – outlining the Labour Economics of various multiplayer games on the net – has got to be one of the bizzarely personally resonant things I have read in a long time. As I have an extensive historical interest in this topic combined with what I do and whom I

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The idea itself was fairly simple. Create a per-process “switch” in memory that would be set to either BSD or AT&T. The behavior of various system calls might depend on the value of the switch. Furthermore, certain special directories could be set up so that the directory you’d actually see would depend on the switch

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