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Do something amazing.
Read more: Do something amazing.Give blood. So, there’s another pint (or so?) in the bank: Enrol here.
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Reflecting on UAVs and human endeavour – “High Flight”
Read more: Reflecting on UAVs and human endeavour – “High Flight”For the fighter pilot: Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things You…
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“Northrop offer supersonic robot stealth raygun cyber-bomber”
Read more: “Northrop offer supersonic robot stealth raygun cyber-bomber”According to The Register, in a typically tongue-in-cheek article: American aerospace colossus Northrop Grumman has called for the US air force to purchase a hundred-strong fleet of enormous aerial stealth raiders, able to direct “netted wolfpacks” of flying…
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Rebecca Johnson: ‘I am a liberal, but I’m blown away by Sara Palin’
Read more: Rebecca Johnson: ‘I am a liberal, but I’m blown away by Sara Palin’An intriguing article about Sarah Palin from the American liberal who profiled Palin for Vogue: Palin isn’t shooting moose for sport; her family eats what she kills. If she shops at Wal-Mart for diapers, the vast majority of…
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Winston Churchill, Tony Benn and New Labour government
Read more: Winston Churchill, Tony Benn and New Labour governmentChurchill on socialism: There can be no doubt that socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the abject worship of the state. … A free Parliament is odious to the socialist doctrinaire. Benn on New Labour in power:…
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Carbon-neutral skydiving: I’m offset for 200 jumps
Read more: Carbon-neutral skydiving: I’m offset for 200 jumpsClear Offset have kindly responded to my request for carbon offsets against skydiving: for around 50 pence a jump, skydivers can now carbon offset their sport. And they even provided a certificate. read more | digg story
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Pitt the Younger, Gladstone and Disraeli
Read more: Pitt the Younger, Gladstone and Disraeli(Bumped up from 9 May 08, as I found it while reflecting on Britain today.) On the basis that those who are not familiar with history are condemned to repeat it, I have begun to study Pitt, Gladstone…
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Investor Jim Rogers: US is “More Communist than China”
Read more: Investor Jim Rogers: US is “More Communist than China”Investor Jim Rogers, CEO of Rogers Holdings, incredibly, told CNBC Europe on Monday that the nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac shows that: America is more communist than China is right now. You can see that this…