Dropsafe

1) open a Terminal.app 2) $ grep LOTR /usr/share/calendar/calendar.history

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[www.haikupostcardfoundation.com]

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[www.wired.com] Business travelers may soon have one more item to stuff in their carry-on: a trusted-traveler card to speed them through security lines. The Transportation Security Administration plans to start testing a registered-traveler identification program in June, which will let those who volunteer for a background check avoid tight screening at the airport. While civil

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[news.bbc.co.uk] – by and large i gather this is not an effective defense in other courts; maybe steve ballmer wants to do community service instead? Microsoft claims that it should not be fined at all because it did not know its behaviour would breach EU law.

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google says that blackadder was wrong: http://translate.google.com/translate_t?text=fluffy&langpair=en%7Cde&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off

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[www.wbglinks.net]

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Meet… Robert Prince, inventor of the exclusive brake camshaft rotation meter [who] demonstrates for the heavy transport industry the most economical way of computing brake component wear and the limitations of the brake camshaft. The rotation meter was designed to save the trucking industry money and to save the DOT vital brake inspection time, and

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although potentially disturbing, and certainly criminal, i truly hope this is not a spoof website: Robber wields sword in gas station heist A gas station in Arendal on Norway’s southern coast was robbed early Tuesday morning by a man dressed like a Japanese ninja. He brandished a sword, seized some cash and fled on a

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it appears – according to [www.macosxhints.com] that Safari automatically caches all favicon.ico files and provides no easy way to purge them, thereby explaining the problems I was having in testing the one I created earlier today. Hohum.

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i am not perfect about these either – sometimes i type the wrong word when my brain is not fully engaged, but for the sake of annotation: the phrase is “hear, hear” not “here, here” – it is meant as a contraction of a phrase like: hear him! hear him! for [he] speaks the truth!

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Re: [slashdot.org] and [news.bbc.co.uk] steve.m writes “The BBC are reporting on a new batch of top level domain names being submitted to ICANN for approval. By far the most interesting proposal is for a .mail TLD to register legitimate mail servers. Could this eventually be the end of spam ?” *yawn* The same old discussion,

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