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last-minute wobs scifi-for-kidz popquiz!
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— 22 Dec 2006 mark sinker 3 comments

1. who first decided that IN THE VERY FAR FUTURE we would all refer to the earth as TERRA OF SOL?
2. who do you know has won the following literary awards:
a. the PHOENIX?
b. the BALROG??
c. the INVISIBLE LITTLE MAN???
d. a “plaque from the Net[…]

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An Advent Triptych of Atheism (I did me some book readin’): intro
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— 22 Dec 2006 Alan 8 comments

What links these books is their atheistic viewpoint – a sceptical approach to our own beliefs and an awareness of the shortcomings of human psychology and thinking – but coming from three very different perspectives. A very American “ground[…]

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THE ADVERT CALENDAR OF ADVENT: 22: Boots The Chemist
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— 22 Dec 2006 Pete Baran 5 comments

I get it. Dave LaChappelle’s (one assumes) hideously expensive Christmas ads for Boots The Chemist are very pretty to look at. And the bestockingly lady in the bath peeling sprouts is an amusing and attractive image. And I know that the UK is one o[…]

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