Dropsafe

interesting thought: [jefferson.blogs.com]

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I know people like this – sorta – but they are nothing like this: the LiveJournal of a Buffy-obsessed fanfic-writing former ballet dancer who now serves in the US Army in Iraq. Link: [www.livejournal.com] Extract from [www.livejournal.com] They say women don t belong in combat. I dont think that anybody does, frankly. But after today,

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[musicplasma.com]

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lindt monteliemar nougat chocolate. good stuff.

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As the attentive (or at least, the quick) amongst you will have worked-out by now, I have signed onto [www.orkut.com] – which, it seems – is some sort of Google-backed social networking tool. Now I tend to hold these sorts of tools in mild suspicion; I’d already received two, perhaps three invitations to join Orkut

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So I get this mail from friend in the USA, who for some reason reads British newspapers, can’t think why, and having exchanged e-mail on the dearth of good, single men in the DC Metro area in a previous e-mail, she sends me a Grauniad URL with the note Apparently there’s a problem all over.

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pictures of the first google hardware [web.archive.org] Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days [www.ccs.neu.edu] More Poetry of D. H. Rumsfeld [slate.msn.com] [slate.msn.com] Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld is a poet, as many Slate readers know. He is also something of a philosopher, and sometimes he combines his two intellectual hobbies. Here is a selection

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<alecm> orkut food communities <alecm> 1: sushi <alecm> 2: wine <alecm> 3: chocolate <alecm> 4: beer <alecm> 5: veggie <alecm> 6: malt <alecm> 7: indian <alecm> 8: coffee <alecm> 9: tea <alecm> 10: san francisco <alecm> hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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[www.faqs.org] RFC 1 – Host Software Network Working Group Steve Crocker Request for Comments: 1 UCLA 7 April 1969 Title: Host Software Author: Steve Crocker Installation: UCLA Date: 7 April 1969 Network Working Group Request for Comment: 1 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. A Summary of the IMP Software

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…and all the little icedrops are about the size of marrowfat peas, a little smaller than chickpeas/houmous; and they are aggregations of smaller ice-balls, the each whole being shaped like button mushroom or teardrop.

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Friday Night: I bailed out of work after talking telescopes with Glenn for half an hour; he’d just got one for his 15 year service award, and wanted to know what he could see. Dinner was at the Bel And The Dragon in Godalming with Grim & Holly, Steve, Birthday Boy Jon, Nobby, and a

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