Archives – 2004 – May – 25  

RIAA v Nielsen FITE!
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RIAA v Nielsen FITE!
A companion to the ingenuous “oo downloads might be good for us” piece linked by Tom below, is an article from Kensei News earlier this month.
According to Soundscan, the service that Nielsen runs to measure actual Po[…]

Music industry recovering: biz gropes for explanation
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Music industry recovering: biz gropes for explanation – “I have a theory that there is something about these services such as iTunes and Napster which is sparking an interest in music which is leading to increase physical sales.” &#[…]

new products corner (not nicked from the Grocer honest)
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new products corner (not nicked from the Grocer honest)
new ice creams for the summer – Yorkie and Toffee crisp from Nestle (that’s pronounced Nessels)
new walkers flavours (limited edition)
greek kebab
Tomato and Basil
feta cheese
An Aus[…]

Why are you running down that corridor aimlessly.
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Why are you running down that corridor aimlessly.
Because we want to, because we want to.[…]

The BBC Health News website
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The BBC Health News website seems obsessed with doctors clothes. Nary two weeks after the ground breaking Doctors Shouldn’t Wear Jeans story we have the more frightening Ties Carry Deadly Diseases. There is a vague point in the second story, ti[…]

Tanya’s Round of Rubbish: Bomb The Bass
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Oh, I know people pronounce it bass as in bass guitar, but originally it was Bomb The Bass, to rhyme with ass which describes Tim Simenon perfectly. A man with little musical talent, he became aware in the mid-eighties that computers and samplers wer[…]

FT Top 100 Films 96: THE GODFATHER PART II
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Lookee here Sight’n’Sound. The Godfather is a different film to The Godfather Part II. As such you cannot just roll them into one film to make up for the fact nothing as recent got any votes at all and to sneak something new into your top[…]

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WOULD YOU ELECT
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WOULD YOU ELECT THIS (or any other) PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS?[…]

The curse of “Of course”.
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The curse of “Of course”. The urge to write “of course” during an essay or a piece is one which comes out of pure arrogance. It is suggesting that you know something that everyone knows, appealing to the intelligence of the re[…]

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