The Urban Kunoichi » Elevator/Lift hacking:
When you need to get to your floor quickly, bypassing any requests along the way, hold your floor’s button and press the door close button at the same time. You should sail straight to your floor without stopping!

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don’t use these inappropriately.

Grating Cards:
‘Because nothing says I love you more than a hot cup of tea in the face.’

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honesty is the best policy after all…..

BBC mistakes cab driver for Net pundit on TV interview:
Mark Frauenfelder: The BBC wanted to interview Newswireless.net editor Guy Kewney about the Apple music / Apple computer decision but accidentally pulled his cab driver onto the set for a live TV interview. It makes for excellent viewing.
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this is great.

You scored as Existentialist. Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Mankind is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility. Existentialist 88% Postmodernist 81% Modernist 69% Materialist 69% Romanticist 44% Cultural Creative 31% Fundamentalist 19% Idealist 0%

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An Open Letter to Google: Concepts for a Google Privacy Initiative:
Greetings. Of possible interest: An Open Letter to Google: Concepts for a Google Privacy Initiative Preface: The overall situation relating to U.S. and global privacy issues is deteriorating rapidly. Recent Congressional moves toward legislating broad, government-mandated data retention laws are…

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this seems like an excellent idea, but it falls prey of the same sort of ideology of icann. that is… that businesses can take over the role of government when government does not perform. I think that is worrisome because it privatizes a public function.