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A turtle given a Christmas treat of Brussels sprouts caused a Boxing Day emergency when it set off an alarm at a sea life centre – by passing wind.

Its bubbles in the water tank were sent up a tube to the surface, where they popped and splashed water on to a sensor.

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1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup of brown sugar
Lemon juice
4 large eggs
Nuts
1 bottle vodka
2 cups of dried fruit

Sample the vodka to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the vodka again. To be sure it is the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.

Repeat.

Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.

Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again.

At this point it is best to make sure the vodka is shtill OK. Try another cup … just in case.

Turn off the mixerer. Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.

Pick fruit off floor. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers pry it loose with a sdrewscriver. Sample the vodka to check for tonsisticity.

Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Who giveshz a shit. Check the vodka.

Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.

Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.

Don’t forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the vodka and kick the cat. Fall into bed.

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Today, millions of peas go homeless and unloved.  You could change that by adopting a pea today!

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Well, Windows Vista Activation has been cracked again.  This time, instead of using a vmware image with the validation server on it to revalidate when Vista wants it, there’s a crack to make Vista never want to revalidate.

• The TimerStop vista test crack works on all 32-bit x86 Windows Vista edition such as Vista Ultimate and Vista Home Premium. Success rate in 64-bit (x64) environment is likely to be low.
• The crack will make the time left to activate Vista to become always 43200 minutes (30 days), and will not countdown or reduce.
• It’s possible to access Windows Update if you install Windows Vista with default product key (no product key entered when installation).
• During the first 3 days of activation grace period after installing Windows Vista, Microsoft has designed it in such a way that Vista will allow greatest flexibility for users to install required drivers and application during this period, so Vista won’t prompt any reminder message for activation. After crack, Vista OS will always run with 30 days left for activation, thus there will not be any watermark or reminder to activate.
• It’s possible to pass Windows Vista Genuine Advantage (WVGA) validation, so users able to download Microsoft value-added software for genuine customers.
• As mentioned above, as Vista will also remain in first 3 days of activation grace period, in theory, Microsoft will not be able to differentiate who is the newly installed system, or who is the ‘patched’ system, unless of course, they check for the specific file or system (privacy anyone?).
• Users can only view that there is 30 more days for system to be activated in the system properties, but it won’t affect system usage or installation method.

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Beginning next month, Microsoft’s IE7 will begin marking all websites with an extended-validation certificate as safe and all websites without one as unsafe.  What does this mean for small businesses on the web?  If you don’t pay for the expensive certificate, IE7 users visiting your site will receive a warning that your site is unsafe and should not be trusted.

To qualify, vendors such as VeriSign Inc. and Comodo will be required to make extensive checks before approving such certificates. They also will have to undergo independent auditing through WebTrust, a service run by trade groups for certified public accountants.

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Businesses in existence for less than three years may be required to also produce evidence they have a valid bank account. Additional checks are required for banks and other companies deemed to be high-risk targets for scams.

Because many of the steps rely upon government filings, general partnerships, unincorporated associations, sole proprietorships and individuals are currently barred from getting these certificates.

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