Dropsafe

Courtesy of [www.oblomovka.com] In the mode of [www.stand.org.uk] and [www.faxyourmp.com] comes: [www.theyworkforyou.com] …which essentially appears to be a data-mining effort based around Hansard (the Journal of UK Parliamentary Proceedings) – which will not merely tell you who your MP is (in case you’ve forgotten, based on your postcode) – but also provides a commentary-forum AND

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[observer.guardian.co.uk] Computer and software manufacturers are to be forced to introduce new security measures to make it impossible for their products to be used to copy banknotes. The move, to be drafted into European Union legislation by the year end, follows a surge in counterfeit currency produced using laser printers, home scanners and graphics software.

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I saw the Polyphonic Spree and Mull Historical Sociaty at the Carling Academy in Birmingham last July; it’s with some interest that I find Hope of the States – one of the support bands at that gig, who seemed both terribly good and terribly young – have got a (debut) album out later this month.

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I decided to dig-up the searches which have landed on this weblog in the past couple of months – thinking this was a trivial venture I did a bit of grepping, only to find that the results were infeasibly large for a single blog article. I have therefore posted the results at [www.crypticide.com] for the

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…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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