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  • howtos

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    Lots of interesting ‘howtos’

  • Two sides

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    Two sides to every story – a funny, touching and strangely familiar story. Once you’ve read the post, click on the link at the top to read the other side’s account (Ben and Mena are a married couple working on a piece of software called Movable Type).

  • Maglev to orbit

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    A maglev railroad to orbit – ‘I’ll say this for your plan, it is not lacking in ambition. The last time I heard of something on this scale of imagination, it was called a Dyson Sphere – bravo!’

  • Reasons to be cheerful

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    Reasons to be cheerful: People on Metafilter liked my post about aerogel (inspired when I saw these pretty photos). I’m very pleased about this – Metafilter is being swamped with too much news culled from CNN, Slashdot, Kuro5hin and other web news portals these days, so I thought the readers might like a change and…

  • Asking people out

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    A nice post in Metafilter about how asking people out is simply a numbers game (the page is huge and while your browser will jump directly to the post, it may take a few seconds to load up).

  • Hamid Karzai

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    Ask a question to Hamid Karzai – this is why BBC Online is the best news website.

  • Shake phone

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    Transmit a handshake through your phone – while I have the utmost respect for the guys at MIT Media Lab, I fail to see the point of this invention.

  • Gattaca

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    Tom Armitage of Tajmahal is an unusual person. First, he reads this weblog. Second, he is thinking of duplicating the big post/little post structure of Massive. I think that this sort of structure is a good way to keep yourself interested in writing for a weblog, and it’s definitely increased my enjoyment and input for…

  • Fay Weldon and Sims

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    Fay Weldon – a fan of The Sims and Civilization – Call to Power?

  • About For Freedom

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    I just posted the ‘For Freedom!’ article. I was a little wary about doing this as I’m not sure whether it flows properly, seeing as I wrote it over a couple of weeks in two sittings (see if you can find the seam). However, I do think it has some good ideas in it and…