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  • Calling you

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    Why is it the case that on Orange, you can call any number in the USA at any time of the day for 15p/minute, while it costs 35p/minute to make calls to anyone in the UK at peak time? This only applies for the popular Everyday 50 tariff, but I suspect it’s still cheaper to…

  • MDRS shop

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    Check out the MDRS Crew 9 shop that I just set up, full of Crew 9 branded goodies including wall calendars, baseball caps, T-shirts, mugs and teddybears!

  • Dragonspace

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    Dragon Space – a dedicated web portal for all China-related space news. Pretty nifty, and it has all the latest happenings with their Shenzhou craft, the fourth of which is expected to take off within the next few days.

  • Back

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    Well, I’m finally back from Utah. I actually got back about five days ago, but I think I can be excused from writing entries here what with jetlag and all the Christmas festivities going on – plus, if you’re bored, you should be reading my Two Weeks on Mars weblog. Things have been fairly quiet…

  • Two weeks

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    I’m heading off to Utah to the Mars Society’s Desert Research Station tomorrow morning, and for the next two weeks you’ll be able to see daily updates and photos of my time there at a new site I set up called Two Weeks on Mars.

  • Marmite

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    There’s no doubt that there are many who love Marmite, but personally speaking, I can’t stand the thing. Clearly MetaFilterites don’t agree with me though: “The marmite is not too strong for us. It is we who are too weak for the marmite,” and “Bow before the Gods of Yeast Extract! Bow damn you!”

  • Timeshare

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    Seen on Usenet, about spacecraft yachts for the rich: “Larry Ellison would probably go for it — but even he isn’t rich enough. Here’s an idea, though: An orbital timeshare. Ellison can use it six months of the year; Bill Gates gets it the rest of the time.”

  • Metafiltrate

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    I’m getting quite annoyed with MetaFilter, again. It’s not that the posts aren’t good – they are, I’ve seen some moderately good ones recently. It’s that I cannot sum up the enthusiasm to take part in discussions any longer. A thread about the link between autism and vaccines caught my eye today, and I was…

  • Community Effect

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    Learned about an interesting thing in a developmental biology seminar today called the ‘Community Effect’. If you transplant a very small group of cells into a foreign, non-self environment, the cells will lose their identity and assume one identical to that of the surrounding cells. However, if the group of cells that you transplant is…

  • A humbling experience

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    A humbling experience – one man’s amusing tale of how he made a fool of himself in front of SF writer Greg Benford.