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Lord British in Star City

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2008-08-21 11:20:52 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...British" as he trains to be launched into space as "an effete space tourist, or monkey" at Russia's Zvyozdny Gorodok, aka Star City. They live in cramped dormitories in the Prophylactory Building, or Prophy, which looks more YMCA than Star Trek. They slip and slide down frozen walkways past dilapidated Soviet structures. They subsist on...
 
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Oh Great, We're Doomed: British Complete Skynet Network, Actually Calling It Skynet

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2008-06-13 12:30:28 by Editor in Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
...British have added the final link to their Skynet 5 communications system. Skynet 5 is the latest iteration of a global communications system deployed by the British Armed Forces. The final satellite in the system was launched this week, and will allow high-bandwidth telecommunications between British forces located anywhere in the world. In...
 
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Gadget Blog is proud to support the British Olympic Equestrian Team

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2008-07-23 20:59:06 by webmaster in Gadget Blog
...British Olympic Equestrian Team at the 2008 Olympic Games held in Beijing The team produced the video above, featuring the extremely attractive Zara Phillips - reigning Equestrian World Champion, and the Queens grand daughter who is 12th in line to the throne. Unfortunately, although Zara was due to compete, she had to withdraw from the team...
 
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British padding lampposts?

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2008-03-06 09:47:08 by Editor in VoIP & Gadgets Blog
...British as the type of people that sues McDonald's for spilling hot coffee like America's over-litigious society nor would I expect them to be granted a free government hand-out. But it appears Britain has lost much of that free spirit. Like the rest of Europe they have become more socialist than capitalist. Whether you agree or disagree in...
 
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British Artist Paints Using RC Cars As His Brushes [Geek Art]

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2008-07-25 12:00:00 by John Mahoney in Gizmodo
...British International Motor Show Paintings created with remote control cars Live demonstration on Sunday August 3 Visitors to the British International Motor Show will be able to check out unique renderings of a pair of very special cars on the Chevrolet stand The paintings, of the Camaro Convertible and Beat concept cars both of which are...
 
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Former British prime minister Tony Blair sent his first SMS

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2008-01-14 20:52:51 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...British prime minister, Tony Blair, as a knowledgeable person. And while I still think so, I was kinda surprised to learn that roughly six months ago he got his first mobile phone, and just recently he sent his first SMS When I lived at Downing Street I never had one. I got my first mobile the day I left, said Blair, who is now a Middle East...
 
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British Transport Police Get Flying Drones

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2008-03-10 10:08:54 by Editor in Ubergizmo
...British Transport Police have new toys to play with - a $60,000 remote controlled flying robot to be exact. It seems that theft of metal on British railways is a nagging problem that needs to be resolved as soon as possible, hence the introduction of such expensive Microdrones to help the Transport Police with their surveillance and...
 
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Is season two of Bebo's British drama KateModern the last - and is it worth watching?

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2008-03-17 11:23:18 by diane in Popgadget: Personal Tech for Women
...British soap opera to be shown entirely on student social networking site Bebo . I knew I wanted to watch it sometime (can 48 million viewers be wrong?) so my plan today was simple: I'd catch up with a few episodes of seasons one and two (each lasts around three minutes, so it wouldn't take long) then extol its virtues/criticise the...
 
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British Airways sends over 11,000 SMS apologies

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2008-04-10 13:36:46 by dusanb in IntoMobile
...British Airways sent out over 11,000 text messages, explaining people what's happening Not that a text message can make you feel better when a flight is delayed or even worse cancelled. Still, we do want to applaud BA for using mobile technology to keep its customers in the loop. I'm not sure whether other airlines are using the similar...
 
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