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The adventure of links
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— 14 Aug 2006 Tom Comment

I have just been updating the links page on our work intranet. It was an exciting trip down memory lane, as nobody had bothered to look at it in several years. How many? Well, put it this way: the list of “useful search engines” was heade[…]

Lily Allen vs the world part 3487
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— 14 Aug 2006 Steve Mannion 26 comments

Apparently Alesha Harvey disapproves of Lily Allen’s bitching of other pop stars. But Alesha’s attitude may itself be a far bigger problem – this seemingly programmed attitude of goodwill to all (other pop stars regardless of their […]

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Is Nacho Libre Racist?
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— 14 Aug 2006 Pete Baran 15 comments

YES: Jack Black does a ridiculous Mexican accent.
NO: This is pretty much the premise. All the other actors are Mexican’s with varying accents. Calling the film racist because one character has a silly accent would be to condemn Peter Sellars i[…]

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