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  • Facebook: Real Names Policy – Intro

    Recently Facebook began enforcing their so-called “Real Names Policy”. You might remember this making the news back in September when Facebook began closing or suspending the accounts of transgendered people and drag artists who were not using their “real names” on their profiles. After the wails of protests became too loud for the Facebook PR

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  • BBC Breakfast currently having a Daily Mailesque newzgazm about this site (which has been around for ages) today. The lesson? If you connect it to the internet, change the default password! http://www.insecam.cc/cam/bycountry/GB/ UPDATE:  Website has now closed with creator using the site to look for work.

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  • The times were hard. The King, an absolute tyrant. People were hauled from their homes by swat teams of government troops, tried in mockeries of the court and executed. Purely because of their beliefs and ideals. One group of prominent English men had had enough. The king and his tyranny must go. The last time

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  • The Bigot’s Wife

    The Bigot's Wife.

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  • Things You Should Know About Introverts

    Originally posted on Playfully Tacky: From MeetTheIntroverts.com 1) We need to recharge alone. This right here is the cusp of the entire introvert v. extrovert debate (if there is one, anyway) – Introverts need to be alone to recharge. We tend to get completely worn out by socializing. This is basically what it means to…

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  • Gaming

    Gaming

    In my life I have owned or had the use of:- Grandstand Games Unit Commodore Vic20 Commodore 64 Amiga 1200 3 or 4 Windows PCs 2 or 3 laptops and 2 Playstations During that time I’ve played all manner of games from Pong to my current addiction World of Warcraft. Recently events got me thinking

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  • Heat

    Dry as a bone Comfortable as a throne Made of stone Humid and sweaty But cold I am not The weather has become Unbearably hot Plants are wilting The cat is tilting As it lounges about in the heat My shirt is all damp I smell like a tramp And the heat haze shimmers on

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  • Those longer term readers may recall I started a project where I would listen to every album in my MP3 collection and post about it on my various blogs. They might even remember why they then stopped reading the Compostual Existentialist. Or they might have wondered what happened to the music project. Well, it’s moved.

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  • Chuck it aaaart

    Chuck it aaaart

    Mrs Gnomepants: So we might get our lovely period bath re-enamelled rather than buy a new one. Its a lovely original cast iron bath. Ma Gnomepants: Why would you want to do that? Oh buy a new one instead. and Mother-in-law – Why have you made your own cake? You’d have been better off buying

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