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A long time ago (and I mean a really long time ago… Like 12 years or something) the Internet didn’t exist and we got all our MUD time via dial up BBSs. Amazingly some of them are still running. Not only that the author manages to access them via Vonage (VoIP).

“Sometimes I don’t even have the energy to put on a CD.”

I must admit to not having actually read the post, just looked at the pictures. I want them. All.

Philosophers, scientists and other intellectuals close to Pope Benedict will gather at his summer palace outside Rome this week for intensive discussions that could herald a fundamental shift in the Vatican’s view of evolution. There have been growing signs the Pope is considering aligning his church more closely with the theory of “intelligent design” taught in some US states.

I am tasked with the MusicBrainz database bit of Sleevenotez. One of the things I’m just doing is handling bands with the same name (of which, according to MusicBrainz there are 3,407 non-unique names – the most common of which is Eden, with 12 bands of that name). Anyway, while scanning the list by eye for real problems I discovered there are 2 Engelbert Humperdincks. Really. The one you would expect, and a composer from the late 19th Century. Of all the names in my non-unique list that was not one I expected.

Half of all UK IT managers are so fed up with their jobs that they deliberately make life difficult for their users, new research has claimed

Think twice before answering that CompuTeach advert kids!

…but also rather frightening. Tea healthier than water (that’s the good bit), but a) I drink about 7 or 8 cups a day and b) tea makes up nearly 90% of my (non-alcoholic) liquid consumption, which appears to be a little more than the average. Is it still good for me?

Flickr adds extensive geotagging and two way integration with upcoming.org, while upcoming.org adds both Yahoo! local and Flickr integration.

And that is seriously rare
Found at mefi

I’ve been convinced for months now that all this application-in-a-browser stuff from Google has been play projects by staff mainly intended to yank Microsoft’s chain, rather than actually attempt to seriously muscle in on their market. Looks like I may well be very wrong indeed.