Dropsafe

So I arrive home, the house is quiet; outside there is a faint smell of burning as the gentle dusky rain dampens someone’s bonfire, the smoke tinged with what? Burning plastic? I think so. Oh dear, someone’s being environmentally silly, again. I dump my bags in the living room, climb upstairs, and there is a

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[www.apple.com] Connect with music like never before behind the wheel of your BMW 3 Series, and X3 and X5 SAV, Z4 Roadster or MINI. With the installation of an integrated adapter developed by Apple and BMW, you can now control your iPod or iPod mini through the existing audio system and multi-function steering wheel. Mmmmhmmm…

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Go see [www.top500.org] ; I am quite pleased to see a number of grids with which I am familiar (viz: my colleagues built them, designed their network fabric, had me help debug, etc) down in the 300..500 region — as-is the system which my mate Chris runs for VPAC down at number 444. I am

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Everything we know about traffic-calming is wrong [www.boingboing.net] Mind-blowing article about the European and Chinese challenges to the received wisdom on traffic planning and calming, arguing that the separation of peds and cars leads to less-safe streets… HeInventedTheTerm [c2.com] A collection of some of those old <X> presents in front of <AUDIENCE>; <X> makes an

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This one takes a small amount of thinkage, but I laughed so hard I nearly fell off my stool. from www.b3ta.com

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Sheesh – I can’t help but wonder if this drip-by-drip expansion is a good thing, or a bad thing? That it keeps a headline something like “All New-Style iBooks Ever Made Are Recalled” out of the press, is probably a good thing – but I cannot but help wonder if that’s the point. Do you

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The new King of the British bike industry is also the largest production motorcycle in the world – the 2.3ltr Triumph Rocket III. There’s not much point in me reviewing what is comprehensively written-up (or pointed-at) elsewhere [www.motorcycle-blog.com] but I will note that: it is smaller/shorter than I expected most of the chassis, is engine

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In searching for a sample of Chris Langham’s voice ([www.castaway.org.uk] – a tour-de-force of his style) I took a look at the larger website. http://www.castaway.org.uk Castaway can provide any voice you want. We have the widest range of carefully selected professional voice talent. Our traditional voices have got all the awards. Our young voices aren’t

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I was always vexed by these being in birdbooks of British Birds but actually being extinct; it was not until I read Bill Oddie’s Little Black Bird Book back in 1979-ish (yes, he really is a bona-fide birder, as-am I but less so nowadays) that I understood the motivation for putting them in books howeverso

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In the UK, we have a quango which receives complaints about advertising and issues judgements upon those complaints, with some powers of censure to boot. Apple got done-over regarding their G5 World’s Fastest PC claim a few months ago, but won two out of three… [www.asa.org.uk] ( link c/o [www.csamuel.org] )

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Some superb stuff at [science.nasa.gov] including the one showing both Venus and the International Space Station in transit.

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I almost wish I had a Microsoft Windows system, so that I could try this out: [privacybird.com] AT&T invites you to download the new AT&T Privacy Bird software for free. This software will help Internet users stay informed about how information they provide to Web sites could be used. The AT&T Privacy Bird automatically searches

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