Dropsafe

anyone remember the adverts on tv, where they used to (literally) drop a volkswagen into shot? which model was it? golf? polo? beetle? all of the above?

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i read recently, some guy’s claim that after much experience, he could identify the encoder and bitrate used to rip a piece of music. i am beginning to see what he meant – at least the bitrates.

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high fully comprehensive: £622 high thirdparty, fire and theft: £346 low fully comprehensive: £ 338 low thirdparty, fire and theft: £181 the winner? carole nash insurance TPFT for 181 quid, including green card (ie: european cover) breakdown and legal, with an excess of 250. the brokers are incredibly leery of the terms boat, rupp, green

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Well, it’s still sunday, just. I’ve just watched David Blaine be released from his perspex cocoon on TV, and have basically had today as a lazing-day… but more of that anon. I am holidaying at home and have a reasonably packed schedule of gardening works to do, started last friday by a buying spree; I

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Remember this: http://www.livejournal.com/users/alecm/44211.html ? Well, there I am browsing the BBC, and I come actoss the “Blaine in Pictures” item on the splash page; scroll through the slides and I find: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/entertainment_living_with_david_blaine/img/6.jpg …who is the girl herself.

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So I have a 90MHz Pentium1 subnotebook – Toshiba Portege 610CT – which I have fitted a 4Gb HD into and which has a cracking 40Mb of physical memory. I want to put Linux on it, so I have a motorbike-friendly laptop. I have had Linux running on this beast before and sought to put

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[www.alpinestars.com] like walking around with an upholstered centurion tank on each foot.

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http://www.totallykylie.com/TK/Miscellaneous/KylieSim/kyliesim.htm and worse: http://www.thesimsresource.com/static/skins1.html britney spears on your pc? ugh. the jane-austen skins must be one of the most bizzare concepts i have ever encountered.

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a man (who wants to give everyone a national identity card and make them pay for the privilege, due to his inability to deal with asylum seekers) tells us that the laws he passed last time to evict nuisance neighbours (who presumably all live in rented accomodation) and keep homeless people and prostitutes off the

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evil and insidiously clever: spams that look exactly like real, well-balanced, sensible and personal e-mails, and thereby cut straight through spam filters. as jeff morgan would say: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil! Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:15:10 +0100 From: Robert <r.seviour@virgin.net> Subject: Reply-to: Robert <steve.weiss@virgin.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.1 required=4.6 tests=SUBJ_REMOVE version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) During

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What’s a good, reasonably inexpensive, hobbyist route to get into welding? Target: from wheelbarrow repair to garden furniture/gate making, plus creating pannier racks for bicycles and motorcycles from steel tubing.

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Amusingly stolen from [found.pale.org] [www.crunchweb.net]

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