Dropsafe

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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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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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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