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Boing Boing: Yahoo: if you use our ads, you have to block non-US visitors

Thanks to Pid for this odd piece about yahoo ads. Yahoo have their own "publisher network", like Google's adsense, bloggers can earn money by putting some ad space on their site. BUT, Yahoo say you must notdisplay all or part of the Ad Unit to any us...

RE: Copt point

In answer to your question,the 'dock' below the cliffs at East Wear Bay is actually a sea defence scheme put in place by British Rail between 1947 and 1952ish this also acts as a 'toe weight' to hold the cliffs back from landslipping.

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Hmmm... maybe you got them on a bad night. It can be quiet, and that combined with the fact that the chef likes high romantic classical music playing in his kitchen can make it a slightly surreal experience for those used to Ravi Shankar and loud con...
Rated 1.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

The sea defences have been much improved in the last year

It's to stop erosion rather than big waves, but there are big boulders and groynes (I think that's the word) heading out at odd angles to break up incoming rollers...

Sleepy weekend

Watched football, a rarity for me, but Portsmouth vs Southampton was on BBC1... So I sat watching in the flat in Folkestone on my own, with constant updates via text and phone from the mates who were gathered in the Chav Monkey in Fareham, drunk befo...