Dropsafe

[www.spy.org.uk] Guy Kewney reports from the London Wireless LAN Event trade show that Last Mile Communications / TIVIS (Total In Vehicle Information System) Limited seem, somehow, to have done a monopoly deal with the notorious Highways Agency of the Department of Transport to install microwave beacons on 150,000 lamp posts as part of the National

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my friend jim over at [found.pale.org] has an occasional thread relating to amusing sender/from names that you encounter in spam; i’ve just received a selection of doosies: From: “Turmerics B. Rubbernecking” <leasing@yesanother.com> From: “Wrapping F. Sedan” <severity@notvoting.com> From: “Pipit G. Compartmentalize” <expounds@did-the-earth-move.com> From: “Entomb H. Legged” <accountably@englandcaptain.com> From: “Hideousness P. Globes” <constrict@i-love-west-ham.com> From: “Further G.

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See [www.crypticide.com] and the following few images; highlights include: The back of Steve’s head Lorraine the firebrand Nobby failing to hide behind Jon Newlyweds to be, Grim and Holly

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It’s wonderful! you install a piece of new software on MacOS X and it optimises the entire disk for you, prelinking shared library thunks or somesuch for speed of execution/launch… You then hit Software Update to patch the piece of software you’ve just installed, and it goes and optimises the disk all over again… Optimisation,

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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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