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Songs About Science
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Songs About Science in MP3 format. I’d be amazed if we haven’t linked this sometime before, but who cares – it’s 1950S SCIENCE SONGS IN MP3 FORMAT!!??!![…]

“Purple is the international colour of equality”
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“Purple is the international colour of equality”
Hein?? Clearly it’s been taken up by some groups as such, and this lot seem, well, harmless enough – but the choice of purple still seems odd. Until the 19th century and the dev[…]

Molvania
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Molvania
This is the first travel book to be written about Molvania. Why has it taken so long to write a guide to this Central European backwater? Well, it’s had its fair share of civil wars, natural disasters and brutal dictators, but also bec[…]

BAILEY’S GLIDE WATCH
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BAILEY’S GLIDE WATCH
More updates on our least favourite alcopop, the foolish watered down long Bailey’s drink know as the Glide. Remember this is the only drink actually improved by a couple of drops of Malt Vinegar in it. Well Emma poin[…]

JUVENILE – Juve The Great: Screwed & Chopped
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JUVENILE – Juve The Great: Screwed & Chopped
DAVID BANNER – MTA 2: Baptised In Dirty Water: Screwed & Chopped
LIL FLIP – You Gotta Feel Me: Screwed & Chopped
In late 2003, thanks to David Banner’s star turn for […]

Glad to see that deranged Narnia site getting wider linkage
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Glad to see that deranged Narnia site getting wider linkage. Like a lot of crackpot Interweb sites it’s taken a small nugget of insight into the books and magnified and spun it in all sorts of crazed directions. In other words it’s mad bu[…]

It is too early to say what the loss of Jeff on Coupling will mean to the dynamic of the show.
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It is too early to say what the loss of Jeff on Coupling will mean to the dynamic of the show. It is impossible to think though that a show like Friends – which Coupling is so based on – ever losing one of their cast.
On the pro-Jeff fro[…]

SWAPSIES
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SWAPSIES
There are few purer ways to waste money than Panini sticker albums. Devoid of free gum or trading-card game status or any kind of real-world use they represent the collector impulse at its simplest. According to the website there is not even[…]

TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH Mai-Tai –
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TANYA’S ROUND OF RUBBISH
Mai-Tai – History
Obviously this piece is about Mai-Tai teh band, not just the song history. Oh, but wait, let us look at their discography.
1985 – History.
Well that’s it. I rarely stoop to eviscerat[…]

So there is a website out there; it shows all of the images that Lichenstein cribbed his famous images from
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So there is a website out there; it shows all of the images that Lichenstein cribbed his famous images from, and its making me rethink the whole comic book/benday dot thing.
I thought that the big and important thing about Lichenstein was his restru[…]

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