Dropsafe

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

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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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