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Got from Slashdot: [www.hpl.hp.com] Spontaneous, unguarded, fleeting — they’re often the moments in our lives we most want to photograph. But these moments are also those we frequently miss — gone before we could reach for a camera. That’s the thought driving a research project called Casual Photography, now running at HP Labs Bristol, UK,

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Why Sun threw in the towel in Mankind vs. Microsoft Well TheRegister don’t seem to hate Sun, at least…. [www.theregister.co.uk] Principles are fine things to have, but only if you can afford them. With its stock declared a ‘junk bond’ and finishing a terrible quarter, Silicon Valley’s leading Microsoft antagonist Sun Microsystems has now decided

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[www.theregister.co.uk]

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Well, James Gosling [today.java.net] says that he now has a RSS aggregator that talks, so the opportunity to make it swear at him is too good to miss. Pee! Po! Belly! Bum! Drawers!

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doing now: watching a documentary about indira gandhi just ate: a poptart. just done: set up the dehumidifier in the kitchen, to try and finally extract the last of the water from a wahing-machine overflow last week. just decided: to see and photograph the following artworks before 30th june: [www.cubittartists.org.uk] [www.headington.org.uk] [tuned-in.org]

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Feds Delay Airliner Flight After Psychic’s Vision — Nothing Suspicious Found On Board [www.theneworleanschannel.com]

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a supremely self-indulgent bit of apple fandom: [homepage.mac.com]

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Interesting, although their URL naming scheme leaves something to be desired; I wonder if this is heartfelt, since it seems to run counter to the time-tested assertions about E-petitions on sites like [www.faxyourmp.co.uk] [www.number-10.gov.uk] 10 Downing Street accepts electronic petitions and you can find e-petitions with more than 300 genuine signatures listed on this page.

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old news: [www.motorcyclenews.com] but i cannot help but wonder whether the people at the BMF actually twigged to the idea of recruiting him as poster-boy in the campaign against banning of mechanically propelled vehicles on rights-of-way: [www.bmf.co.uk] [www.muddystuff.co.uk] [www.laragb.org]

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Well this one just plain humdinger moral-maze stumps me – I don’t dispute the issues at stake are both important and sensitive, but there just seems so much potential for litigation in this story: [www.post-gazette.com] Like: Is this potentially a conflict with free-speech legislation? Come to that, is she of an age where she is

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There’s some quite interesting commentary going on at [www.livejournal.com] which I should really work out some way to integrate back into the main blog. Hmmm…

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[www.userfriendly.org]

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