Dropsafe

…and some people seem to have a problem with them: [www.kahunaburger.com] Scansoft lmspider bannned I’ve just added “lmspider lmspider@scansoft.com” and “lmspider (lmspider@scansoft.com)” with a “Disallow: /” to my robots.txt file. I’ve contacted them quite some time ago and never received a response to my question about the purpose of this spider. Until lmspider@scansoft.com responds to

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Go see [sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov] – your next chance will be in 2012 (iirc) and after that you will have to wait for the next century – if you liive that long.

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[www.livejournal.com]

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[www.boingboing.net] Joi Ito has a good blog entry about Nokia’s new “Airtexting” feature in the 3220 handsets: a string of LEDs down the side of the phone spell out user-defined words when the phone is waved back and forth. Joi ponders the heckling applications… Worth a look.

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from my friend bart blanquart: [news.bbc.co.uk] Jailbreak duo escape punishment Two men who fled an open prison and knocked on the door of another jail asking for a stricter regime will not serve extra time. Audie Carr, of Hereford, and Benjamin Clarke, from Gloucester, claimed Leyhill Open Prison in Gloucestershire was “rife with drugs”. They

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[news.com.com] Sun is also launching per-citizen pricing for its Java Enterprise System server software. While the company had committed to the idea earlier, it now has begun selling it according to population and how the United Nations ranks countries as more, less or least developed. Countries with larger populations and lower development pay less per

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[www.infernus.net] as-gotten from Gene Saunders.

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[www.trepanning.tv]

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In one of my occasional fits of madness – wherein I switch off my natural cynicism and try to pretend the world is a nice place – I skimmed [diveintomark.org] and found the following piece of wisdom: How to credit people whose links you republish Ever since it was discovered that bloggers kill kittens plagiarize

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[www.wired.com] Security-Free Wireless Networks  SAN JOSE, Calif. — With a laptop perched in the passenger seat of his Toyota 4Runner and a special antenna on the roof, Mike Outmesguine ventured off to sniff out wireless networks between Los Angeles and San Francisco. He got a big whiff of insecurity. While his 800-mile drive confirmed that

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…is another scan of an old negative. If I remember right this was about a 6 second exposure on Fuji Superia 200 at f/8 on my Minox GT-E, set up using my Minox mini-tripod, and timer to reduce shake; the exposure is AP so I cannot be exact about it. Scan 2400dpi on a Epson

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well, the first round of holiday pictures are up on the website at [vol1] – smaller versions at [vol1-small] – after some fiddling with the scanner this weekend; it’s fantastic to be able once more to convert old (and new) film images to digital format, and – being as I eventually went for the mid-cost

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