Just heard in a TV ad - " Youth activating concentrate" for some cosmetic cream!

The mind boggles at the lies..and that someone actually are buying this stuff.

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From a blog posting at status.net on distributed networks of the "social web" - very interesting as it looks like someone has taken a pragmatic view and actually reused some of the existing simple protocols :

Luckily for us, there have been a number of advances in the distributed social Web in the last two years. In Fall of 2009, we started re-designing OMB. We abandoned any attempt at backwards compatibility, so we were really able to come up with a system built of shiny new components that make more sense.
These components are:
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From my favourite magazine - Make :
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For years I've used a set of ER6 earphones from Etymotic, and overall been reasonably satisfied.

On the negative side it's very hard to get a good enough fit to get decent bass from the earphones.

On the positive side the mechanical noise reduction (by getting them inserted properly into the ear) is fantastic, your fellow passengers on the train or plane can't hear what you are listening too - nor are you disturbed by them.

So this time around I went for the new Etymotic HF2 - with a twist, as I now have the option to get a set of custom earbuds made in Guildford (!) to get a perfect fit. But the earbuds cost the same as the HF2's - turning them into a set of very expensive earphones indeed.
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On Friday we were invited out to Kai in London - one of the very few Chinese restaurants in Europe with a (new) Michelin start.

The food was extremely good - and there was enough of it, with some very extragavant dishes on the menu, such as

which as you can see requires more planning for what to eat than I can ever see myself managing to do.

But if you want to taste what modern chinese cooking at it's best can taste like - recommended.

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