• comedians and science 1

    What is it with this vogue for comedians presenting one or more entire series of science, history or technology programmes on TV? I suspect that Billy Connolly started the trend some time long ago, and now we have: Tony (“Baldrick”) Robinson – archaeology Terry (“Python”) Jones – crusader history Robbie (“Hagrid”) Coltrane – big machines

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  • yay! penn and teller!

    1) After reading about it elsewhere (Geoff’s Blog?) I am immensely happy to have found Penn and Teller: Bullshit! on the new FoxFX Channel – a happy stumbling-across because generally I don’t watch that channel. 2) On the other hand, I am deeply amused to find: http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/ Sorry We at Showtime Online express our apologies;

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  • obligatory band link

    hip-hop meets 1978: [www.the-streets.co.uk] streaming: rtsp://rm.warnermusic.com/uk/the_streets/StreetSc.rm

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  • Reith Lectures 2004

    The Reith Lectures are considered to be one of the pinnacles of British broadcasting achievement, an annual event with a long history [www.bbc.co.uk] of erudite presentation from big names in academia (and real life too). This year’s lecturer is Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel Laureate, Activist and Author – and I mention him especially because he

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  • FLY GUY

    Fun little interactive flash animation, very retro a-la Macintosh 1988. http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/

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  • snow glass apples

    If you’re a Neil Gaiman fan, and can listen to RealAudio, then drop everything and go to [www.scifi.com] for an interesting twist on the story of, well, you’ll work it out…

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  • more referred spam on the way?

    Some may remember my posting [www.crypticide.com] where I noted the sweep of a crawler over my webspace; today I find: a156028.upc-a.chello.nl — Sun Apr 18 09:59:30 2004 ip: 62.163.156.28:1188 mtd: GET /cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi/2004/03/29/ hst: www.crypticide.com ref: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22211.152.14.98%22&hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=60&sa=N fwd: via: ua: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 …someone looking for that same webserver, a coldcaller who

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  • Searches that have landed here

    Searches that have landed here… index_no.html?&q=%22bluetooth%20sniffer%22%20&start=40&num=10&lr=&filter= query=LAYBY+DOGGING&first=91&last=100 search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=XT660+%2B2004+review&btnG=Search&meta= search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=new+r1200gs+oil+leak+march&btnG=Search&meta= search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=review+xt660 search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%2B%22bluetooth+sniffer%22+%2Bmacos&btnG=Search search?num=20&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22I%27m+updating+my+address+book%22+Virus&lr=lang_de%7Clang_en%7Clang_nl search?q=%22Come+morning,+we+will+be+over-run,+with+high+casualties%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 search?q=%22julianne+regan%22+depression&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 search?q=alec+muffett+blog&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 search?q=channel4+advert+swear+words&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&start=20&sa=N search?q=linux%20dropsafe&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=gw search?q=r1200gs+advert&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&meta= translate_c?hl=fr&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dcrack%26hl%3Dfr%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8

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  • reflected glory

    Dropsafe is being aggregated by an aggregator whose aggregate is fed to www.feedster.com that feeds the feed to feedreaders and which has nominated the same to be “feed of the day“. Spiffing! Well done DME of [www.planetsun.org] – or as we know him, “Dave”.

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  • War of words rages over Internet taps

    Fascinating article at [www.securityfocus.com] – I can’t help wonder if UUCP-like E-mail networks implemented over secure P2P infrastructures will arise to bypass such, my line of thinking being prompted by [www.crypticide.com] – leading to them promptly being banned, or somesuch idiocy. When private e-mail is outlawed, only outlaws will have private e-mail, etc… Some key

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  • Librarians Protest Mandated Internet Filters For Library Computers

    [www.wftv.com] TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Librarians from across Florida gathered at the State Capitol on Tuesday to protest Internet filters on public library computers. Proposed legislation would require libraries to install Internet filters on public computers to block pornography and other obscene images. The Florida Library Association says the plan is costly and unnecessary …read more

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  • Ads from early 80s Biker Magazines

    Truly scary, some of them, and not work-safe. Some of the Hein Gericke ones are appalling. [www.sharpeworld.com]

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