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I last week obtained a couple of giant puffball mushrooms, one for a friend and the other for cooking. The puffball has a rich, mushroomy smell, especially for the first couple of hours after picking; my example was about 9 inches in diameter, near-spherical, pinching down to a neck that socketed into the ground. Rather

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so i get this bizzare e-mail, a fragment of which reads: There’s been discussion since last November 2003, that the Bush regime would try to declare martial law in the USA to keep the November 2004 elections from occurring because the globalists, who run the multi-national corporations supporting Bush’s world domination agenda, are worried Bush

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i really wonder whether i need bother seeing the movie, now. [playlist.yahoo.com]

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the opening bars of neil hannon / the divine comedy’s the happy goth are the same as those of all about eve’s december, off the scarlet &… album. coincidence? i think not.

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Hmmmmm… Your Headline Reader Has Been Banned Your RSS reader is abusing the Slashdot server. You are requesting pages more often than our terms of service allow. Please see the FAQ link for more information, and if you email us, include your IPID MD5: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. …except that I am not, I don’t think; I suspect

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[www.tombihn.com] … The inside label carries instructions on washing and caring for the bags. Because the bags are sold in Canada, the instructions are also printed in French. The French version, however, contains an additional phrase: “NOUS SOMMES DESOLES QUE NOTRE PRESIDENT SOIT UN IDIOT. NOUS N’AVONS PAS VOTE POUR LUI.” Translated to English, the

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ok, so, accoring to dave walker i am not the only person who has a personal gripe about the marketing cliche, 24x7x365 dave prefers plain 24×7 (ditto) – or 24×365 (which is a little implausible to my tastes) i’d prefer 24x7x52 which is at least a calendar year (modulo leap years, which would make it

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Farnborough Air Show [farnborough.janes.com] [www.farnborough.com] is upon us once more, and the window by my office desk is populated by dogfighting aircraft and demonstrations of technique that scare the pants off you…

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Apparently it’s too dangerous for politicians to remain in parliament without Big Ben being exploded to fall on top of them. Apparently (irony abounds) the current concrete defenses could act as “dangerous missiles” if they get blown up. No shit, Sherlock? The expensive solution: put up steel barriers that will destroy the look of the

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