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hmmmm [www.primepuzzle.com] A young husband called up the DJ, asking him to play this prank on his wife for fun. The couple had just bought a new house and had a new baby. This is a recording of the radio DJ pretending to be the husband’s boss, calling to apologize to the wife for firing

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Cited by others. Very true. [www.marketingprofs.com] The March 15 issue of the AMA Marketing News usually a weekly time capsule of conventional wisdom from a decade ago had a cover story concerning how agencies and companies are using blogs to promote brands and site visits. But the story was actually a case study in what

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There was a most dreadful piece of tosh on the Today Programme on Radio4 this morning; saying that the attempt by the Savoy Opera [www.savoyopera.com] [www.savoytheatre.co.uk] to bring cheap (or inexpensive?) opera to the masses was a dreadful thing, would undermine all the multi-million-pound subsidised opera companies, absorb all the tourist trade, and be middle-class,

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clive suggested this: [www.livejournal.com] alas a web-trawling google-bombing pagerank-breaking link-making advertising engine already beat him to the punchline: [www.carpets.all-rugs.com]

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brad: So, what up? alecm: i got a little more drilling done yesterday, only to have a panic when (unrelated) my mains water got shut off alecm: turned out it was a neighbour in another building doing a house extension alecm: switched off at the main, warned everyone else, but finding nobody at home at

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For those of you wondering why my articles are coming up in RSS again, I am moving all my content under a “/dropsafe/” metadirectory in case at some time in the future I choose to change content management systems. You will soon be restored to normal service.

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I was driving past/through farnborough several times at the weekend, including past the new Frank Whittle[1] memorial statue – a fullsize model of the first jet aircraft, set in the midst of a roundabout next to a field. There was a Pied Wagtail perched atop the engine intake, as if just to show us who

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i’m pretty certain i’ll need to reference these in the next six months or so: first delurking on usenet, 1 october 1990 [groups.google.com] first sigblock, 4 october 1990 [groups.google.com] JANET aem@uk.ac.aber INET: aem@cs.aber.ac.uk (or possibly aem@aber.ac.uk) UUCP: …!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!aem ARPA: aem%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk aem%uk.ac.aber@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: <play around with aem%aber@ukacrl, ok?> SNAIL: Alec Muffett, Computer Unit, Llandinam Building, UCW

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Want one! [www.theapplecollection.com]

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cute: [www.slimdevices.com]

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[www.glasnost.de] Why? Purely as an educational exercise? Or did they fear Caribou of Mass destruciton?

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[whacked.net]

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