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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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I don’t have ADD. You just can’t switch context fast enough. — original and freshly minted at 2300m above sea level, 13 june 2004

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in its own small way, this is tremendous fun: [www.lorem-ipsum.info]

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…especially if you were in the UK, you’ll appreciate [www2.b3ta.com] (stolen from [www.livejournal.com])

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for those of you who’ve been wondering where all the posts have gone recently: i am back from my second motorbike vacation of the year, a jaunt to the italian alps and back with a bunch of wacky german and swiss colleagues, ex-colleagues, and foafs. i am pooped, my elbows ache, and after sitting on…

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it’s still ongoing, but… The flower is a dog rose from the scrub near the layby, during a cloudy moment this morning around 0630h local time; I am vexed that three aircraft flew through the image of the sun on approach to LHR, but none of them were got on-camera due to it/me being so…

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James Gosling over at [today.java.net] cites a WiReD article, essentially about apparently crazy science ideas. I have always enjoyed the crackpot wing of science – not the exploitative pseudoscience of the likes of Velikovsky, but instead the more dreamy, fits-the-facts stuff that is the fodder of good Sci-Fi. Creative, surprising, at least semi-plausible, the opposite…

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Apparently I am not alone… [www.wired.com] TAIPEI — Big Brother is getting a whole lot of little siblings. New surveillance cameras allow anyone with a broadband internet connection to keep a 24-hour watch on nearly anything from anywhere. Want to monitor your house from the office? Connect one of the cameras to an Ethernet or…

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