Dropsafe

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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I have absolutely no idea how this stayed under my radar for so long – in retrospect I may have read it somewhere and missed it, mashing it all in with the new film production – however on Tuesday 21 September 2004 at 6.30pm London time, there is a strong chance that the BBC’s streaming

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No, honestly, I mean it. Really. The apparent physiological differences between her and SMG number in the low, possibly single-digit, percentages. Yes indeed, to come up with an observation like that, I have been down the pub. Two of them in fact, one local, and the other almost-as-local. A short step from each other. A

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[www.fahrenheit911.com]

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[www.dme.org] an E450 as a in-car MP3 player

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from [blogs.motorbiker.org] Odd, but true … a woman on a remote ranch in Nevada, USA was very sick. Their only way of communicating was via a satellite – equipped computer. The person who did the communicating was not from the ranch, and all he knew was the ThumperTalk.com motorcycle discussion forum. So he called them

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well, there’s a happy-ending update: [www.laurasnyctales.com]

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courtesy of a recent irc discussion with colleagues, this is an amusing demonstration: [www.thewebshite.co.uk] – one Nickleback song in the left speaker, and one in the right…

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for future reference: day 1 – Red, Hampshire to Reims day 2 – Green, Reims to Konstanz day 3 – Blue, Konstanz to Zurich to Trento to Recoaro Terme day 4 – Sleep and Shop 😎 day 5 – On/softroad alpine rally in local area day 6 – Magenta, Recoaro Terme to Colmar day 7

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