Dropsafe

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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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[nytimes.com] [slashdot.org] “William Safire of the nytimes [nytimes.com] has an interesting column this week describing how the Soviets purchased bogus computer chips from the West in the 1970’s. The technology topping the Soviets’ wish list was for computer control systems to automate the operation of the new trans-Siberian gas pipeline. When we turned down their

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from ducati, whom else? [www.ducati.com] found at [blogs.motorbiker.org]

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I’ve been expecting this for ages, and finally it has happened. Ontology. Today I received my first works e-mail that uses the word: Few devices share a common ontology today. …and I expect more. According to the dictionary, the word means: [dictionary.reference.com] The branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being. or: 1.

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[www.waitrose.com] is a lovely place to go, especially if you time it towards the end of the month when a lot of stock is on knockdown.

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a day of housecleaning and shoppery, followed by a hurricane. or at least, that’s what it sounds like at the moment. how’s you doing?

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…old friend Marcus Ranum posits that it may well have been an al-Quaeda whale, combining biological / bacterial terror weapons and suicide bombing in a single convenient package.

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buster just came to me to complain: the cat flap had frozen shut.

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