Dropsafe

i’ve written elsewhere about the vandalism of the 7000+ year old rollright-stones circle on april 1st; my friend jane hopkins posted a link to some photos of the damage, taken at the weekend: [wyrdswell.co.uk] i suppose there is some small consolation that the damage will pass/erode eventually, but for the next few thousand years it

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extracted from a pointer at [found.pale.org] Microsoft’s Gates dethroned as world’s richest person by cheap furniture magnate [www.theregister.co.uk] All hail Ingvar Kamprad! The Swedish founder of the IKEA furniture chain has passed Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates as the world’s richest person, according to reports out of Sweden. Business weekly Veckans Affarer is set to report

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For all your phone-number-to-irritating-mnemonic needs! [phonespell.org]

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[www.macosxapps.com] Detour is an audio router allowing the selection of audio output device and relative volume for individual applications. Detour allows you to send audio to different output devices on an application-specific basis, which means you can… …send music from iTunes to your external speakers and keep the annoying beeps and blips of iChat going

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ThySpy – Tme Movie [www.thyspy.com] “True Confessions of a Gospel Gumshoe” Small New Zealand town revels in The Running of the Sheep [www.mytelus.com] “…like Pamplona, except this time the men chase the sheep, which makes perfect sense in New Zealand”. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – A small New Zealand town reached for some of the

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Useful website I have found is [icalshare.com] which augments [www.apple.com] as a resource of all the major events, bank holidays, and stuff like that. One double click, and I now know that I have both friday and monday, off. I can also get Astronomy calendars, Earth Seacons, IETF meetings…

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I’ve not tried this yet, because i only have two macs, one being a laptop and the other not requiring a high-speed interconnect; but i may give it a go some time. [www.macosxhints.com] Network Machines via FireWire If you need to connect two Macs running Panther, but you don’t have an Ethernet cable handy, don’t

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The Today Programme on Radio 4 had the second of two items regarding slow food, featuring the progress of a piece of Pork slow-cooked in vacuum-pack for 72hrs at The Fat Duck, a restaurant in Bray near Maidenhead owned by Michelin-starred chef Heston Blumenthal. The items include interviews with other slow-food pundits and related suchlike.

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…the White House does not have an RSS feed. [www.whitehouse.gov] I daresay some blognazis I know would consider this to be the nadir of uncoolness.

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maybe a place to stay, next time i go to berlin: [www.propeller-island.com] See also [www.propeller-island.com] [www.propeller-island.com] [www.propeller-island.com]

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[news.bbc.co.uk] check the caption

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rollright stones vandalised [news.bbc.co.uk] there are some truly stupid people in this world. oh wait! maybe it was terrorists! Paint-wielding vandals may have caused irreparable damage to an ancient stone circle in what is thought to be an April Fools Day prank. The Rollright Stones on the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border have been daubed in yellow gloss

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