Dropsafe

[www.phototag.org] PhotoTag is a small photography project and an ad hoc community formed through through the chance wanderings of transient disposable cameras. Periodically, a series of disposable cameras are labeled and released into the wild with instructions for unwary PhotoTaggers to take one picture and pass the camera on. Postage and a return address are

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bother. there is a transit of venus – one of those rarely-in-a-lifetime events – on june the 8th, 2004 [sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov] [sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov] there is a company motorbike rally in switzerland, starting june 10th, to which i have an open invite. is it really sane for me to me to try and get from one to the

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my cousin, the actor [www.villiersandhudson.co.uk]

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i have been a bit quiet on the personal postings front of late – partly by design, but also since reorging my life last year my personal utilisation – in terms of weekends occupied doing fun stuff – has skyrocketed, leaving me swamped with so much to talk about that i never actually bother to

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[www.coolegames.com]

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http://www.snopes.com/sports/football/williams.asp We hope we don’t detract from the attention Doug Williams merited with his on-field performance by noting that our own favorite silly pre-Super Bowl question-and-answer exchange (apocryphal or not) involved one of his opponents in that Super Bowl: Another unidentified questioner posed this one to several players: “If you could be a tree, what

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http://www.lagostina.it/eng/pr_det.asp?id=118

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what i’ve been up to this past week: http://www.crypticide.com/users/alecm/albums/2004-rome-milan/__IDX001.html includes videos, picture of smart roadster for and a picture of a €2500 leather jacket. more / proper update later.

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tick tick tick…

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very very british humour http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2405081

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why is the prime technical instigator of a per-country or per-technology nuclear weapon project always called a father? some big baby. oppenheimer and teller set precedents, sakharov on the russian side, but now we get [www.guardian.co.uk] are children really that bad?

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Compare the results of a search for “XFree86” at the two following sites: [www.google.com] [search.msn.com]

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