Dropsafe

Another one from MetaFilter. [www.metafilter.com]

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[news.bbc.co.uk] By the year 2010, file-sharers could be swapping news rather than music, eliminating censorship of any kind. This is the view of the man who helped kickstart the concept of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing, Cambridge University’s Professor Ross Anderson. In his vision, people around the world would post stories via anonymous P2P services like those

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[www.28mm.org]

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the patron saints of graphic design [lynnster.com] This Flemish maiden (who is also the Patroness of the city of Cmyk) was the niece of Saint Gertrude of Trumatch. Famously compassionate and harboring a flair for drama, Pantone caused a miraculous fountain to spring from the earth (it is there to this day), the waters of

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Amusing log entry – well, I think so anyway – slightly anonymised; this demonstrates that PlanetSun is getting noticed, not least because it is now in Bloglines, which explains the hourly hit I’ve been taking from that site too… Site hit rate now in the 3500+ per day range. ____.chi.playboy.com ip: ___.___.___.___:11302 mtd: GET /cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi

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from chris samuel’s blog: [www.csamuel.org]

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Received from my friend Rob Diamond, and probably the next meme-du-jour: [www.albinoblacksheep.com] “Soundtrack made entirely in SNDREC32.EXE”

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…ultralight blog: [www.cl.cam.ac.uk]

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I keep a historical collection of these things at [www.crypticide.com] but this is the most overt I have had in some considerable time. Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:46:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Harsha XXXXXXXXXX <harshaXXXXX@yahoo.com> Subject: Hi I need Your services Dear Alec Muffett Hi i am looking for some assistance from Hackers. Need help

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Good Friday and Easter Monday are National holidays in the UK. Long weekend. Suffer, foreign pigs. 😎

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artistic fun: ever wondered what a tank parked on the freeway would look like? wanted a sportscar in your driveway? [dubster.com]

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I strongly object to RSS in the way people are trying to use it. Specifically I am responding to something Glynn Foster wrote at [www.gnome.org] but where I do not so much object – instead I am not sure he has thought through the ramifications of what he is saying. Glynn writes: Even though we

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