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Space Shuttle Countdown Enters Final Hours (AP)
How Dell made Los Angeles look like a sucker - in pictures
British government lost 150 PCs this year
EC officials raid Intel offices
BBC In Trouble Over Free Music
Granny Picks Linux
Disposable email addresses
Using BitTorrent on Linux
I should be in the spam business...
The Governator's Talk
del.icio.us direc.tor
Technorati is for PR Professionals

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Countdown Begins for Discovery Launch (AP)
Military's Energy-Beam Weapons Delayed (AP)
Microsoft Surprises with Linux 'Hands-On Lab'(Ziff Davis)
Mobile content market is booming
The patent vote: who won that round, exactly?
UK police chase pics, email, phone records in bomber hunt
Students refuse to buy a singlesong from Napster
Windows Longhorn Beta Screenshots
Microsoft's 'Hands-On' Linux Lab
Alex, The Brainy Parrot Who Knows About Zero
Drupal Needs a New Home
Be Your Own Hotspot
Rats in the security world
Linux in the Classroom: a Look Back
Surprise: People Are Lazy
Link Exchange Spammers Should Die
I think it's time to dump the Powerbook...

BBC - On This Day
1996: Seven slashed in school machete attack
Three young children and four adults are attacked by a man with a machete at an infant school in Wolverhampton.
1965: Ronald Biggs escapes from jail
Ronald Biggs who was serving a 30-year prison sentence for his part in the Great Train Robbery escapes from Wandsworth prison.
2003: Conjoined twins die in separation op
Conjoined Iranian twins who volunteered to go ahead with a major operation to separate them both die during surgery.
1971: British troops shoot Londonderry rioters
Two men are killed by the British army in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
2000: New Harry Potter most magical yet
The latest story about boy wizard Harry Potter breaks all publishing records.

BBC eyewitness reports on London explosions

London bomb blasts flickr pool
Wikipedia entry

Thursday Linkdump
Wikipedia: History of the Goomba
Via Waxy
Mariopedia
An illustrated history of every character from the Super Mario universe. Via Kottke
Google's Master plan
photo of whiteboard
Google maps transparencies
overlay map view with sat view
Found photos
interesting..
Google currency conversion
neat idea

The strange world of German cassette collectors
Trading old cassette tapes that are still sealed.

London wins Olympic bid

London wins Olympic bid

Technorati: Olympics

Olympic bid - live log
Live updates from BBC reporters in Singapore.

Disobey.com digs up some kozmo artefacts

What did kozmo.com sell and why they went bust
In depth Google Answers reply on one of the darlings of the dotcom era.

My stuff for sale on Ebay

I've got some items for sale here on Ebay. Mostly older computer books that i'm getting rid of.

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Mission Accomplished: Probe Hits Comet (AP)
Best Live 8 Viewing Found Online (AP)
Are brains analog, or digital?
Windows Software Ugly, Boring & Uninspired
Linux &Scaling: the Essentials
My Web 2.0: Social Search

WW1 Color Photo gallery

Fascinating online gallery here of World War One color photos.

Luther Vandross RIP

American soul singer Luther Vandross has died at the age of 54, two years after suffering a major stroke.

PSP HTTPD

Here's an article about running a webserver on the Sony PSP

Iraq war casualty map
Google maps hack plotting where U.S. casualties have come from. Disturbing stuff.

Star Wars Google maps hack

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NASA Sets July 13 Shuttle Launch Date (AP)
Internet offers Live 8 a shot at broadcast record (AFP)
Exec + PDA = security alert
BBC culls Cult website
Red Hat milks corporate Linux sales for strong Q1
Men blamed for spyware surge
David Clark: Rebuild the Internet
The 12-minute Windows Heist
Linux &Scaling: the Essentials
Interview with Ga?l Duval of Mandriva
Passing Interview Triage

BBC - On This Day
1997: Hong Kong handed over to Chinese control
Hong Kong has been handed back to the Chinese authorities - ending more than 150 years of British control.
1963: Philby confirmed as 'third man'
Former Foreign Office official Harold Philby is confirmed as the "third man"in the Burgess and Maclean case.
1994: Yasser Arafat ends 27-year exile
The chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, Yasser Arafat, returns to the Gaza Strip after 27 years in exile.
1987: Stock-broker guilty of corruption
One of the City's top investment bankers receives the first conviction for insider dealing since it became illegal.
2000: Ex-Blair ally attacks prime minister
Millionaire novelist Ken Follett levels scathing personal criticism at Prime Minister Tony Blair.