Dropsafe

So: on The Today Programme this morning, a Yorkshire Vicar who risks having to close his church over the summer due to the presence of Natterers Bats; an endangered species, the larger Natterers (unlike their Pipistrelle cousins) fly in/out in the gap over the church door, and poop liberally around the church leaving a nasty

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memes like this were/are all the rage on livejournal, and this is the first one that i’ve seen or thought to participate in since dropsafe was first posted. not unlike the tom lehrer song of some fame, i got it from geoff [www.geoffarnold.com] who got it from dave [www.dme.org] who got it from tim [www.tbray.org]

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I remember, long ago, working on a VALGOL cross-compiler; in the same tradition, only moreso, comes: The Shakespeare Programming Language [shakespearelang.sourceforge.net] The Infamous Hello World Program. Romeo, a young man with a remarkable patience. Juliet, a likewise young woman of remarkable grace. Ophelia, a remarkable woman much in dispute with Hamlet. Hamlet, the flatterer of

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And from my friends Graham and Rachel: [www.yamaha-motor.co.jp] Because of its serious, thoughtful appearance, the SUMATRAN ORANG-UTAN is nicknamed philosopher of the forest . Contrary to its grave image, the orangutan is actually a gentle-natured creature. An anthropoid possibly the closest to man, the species is currently classified as CRITICALLY ENDANGERED in the Red List.

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[www.coutant.org]

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[www.neilgaiman.com] seems to reflect the divide I encounter on a daily basis between US and UK. [ondemand.chumtv.com:8080] caps his opinions on the matter. Caution: Parental Advisory Warning: American readers must consult their parents or local government representatives before listening.

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I have always wondered about this stuff; I should have googled it sooner. [users.adelphia.net]

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[www.baltimoresun.com] SPOKANE, Wash. – There’s no question Ken Olsen made the stuff. He brought some castor beans to his work cubicle, put them through a coffee grinder and mixed in a common solvent. He then poured the concoction through a paper filter. Within minutes, Olsen, a respected software engineer for a high-tech company and former

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Well the moron at 216.138.225.34 must have gotten rather a nasty suprise when he found that my commenting code auto-escapes HTML anglebrackets. For those who missed it, someone attempted to hide several kilobytes of “rape photo” links in a comment on my site – amusingly in a comment upon one of the postings about spam

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I’m having great fun with this – getting it to do overhand knots and the like. [yugop.com]

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[news.bbc.co.uk] More than 70% of people would reveal their computer password in exchange for a bar of chocolate, a survey has found. It also showed that 34% of respondents volunteered their password when asked without even needing to be bribed. A second survey found that 79% of people unwittingly gave away information that could be

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new doormat, liberally sprinkled with some finely-powdered grey pepper that i bought on a camping trip and have never really otherwise used. no cat poop, one week and counting. yay.

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