blending the mix

Damien Mulley posted a great competition from Science Week where entrants can win a Nintendo Wii if you post your answer and you are lucky enough to be drawn at the end of the day.
So, in answer to today’s question, "What was MY favourite invention from my childhood?":
The Acorn Alectron.
The WHAT I hear you say?
From […]

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Proof, if proof were ever required, that Robert Scoble has a bigger brain than the rest of us:
Previous research has suggested that a person’s conventional friendship group consists of around 150 people, with five very close friends but larger numbers of people who we keep in touch with less regularly. This figure is so consistent […]

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So, having spent a few minutes playing with [tag]Asterpix[/tag], I have created the following (using aaron grider’s original movie) and embedded some links in there to [tag]amazon[/tag]. I have only done the first 30 seconds to give you an idea of what it could look like.

And look where it takes you - from preview to […]

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…until the end of day when the Bloghaus parties start!!!

Anyone else notice how quiet it is out there with CES going on at the moment??!!!
Tags: ces

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Both of my subscribers (!) and other people who stumble here by accident will at least now have some witty and insightful content to read when they see my new gapingvoid widget!
It displays a cartoon a day (I believe) - and you know what they say “A cartoon a day helps you work, rest and […]

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My Sony laptop is on the verge of packing in, after years and years of (ab)use it is at death’s door.
The CD drive does not allow me to burn back-up discs anymore and it is pot luck as to whether or not it will work from one day to the next.
So, I am offering […]

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BubbleShare is a great new site similar to flickr et al. where you can actually add bubble captions to your pictures (and I think others can too with your permission!).
How cool!

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German Coastguard
Sorry about the link, but I can’t manage to embed the video - any help, please email!

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Hey guys, I may be asking too big a favour here, but green just isn’t my colour and as much as I like the simplicity of the layout of the Green marinee wordpress theme, I want to have something a bit more sophisticated and modern!
I am planning to add some competitions as well as some […]

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A great little article here about the new trend for people being buried with their mobile phones, laptops and other technology gadgets.

Why?!
have you got something you need to take to the grave with you?
It used to be just memories or lies you took to the grave, now it looks like it could be secret bank […]

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