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Night On Mare Street
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— 17 Dec 2007 Pete Baran Comment

If there is one thing that CAMRA seems to have accidentally, but willingly, sponsored over the last thirty years – its the ever so clever witty beer name. Real Ale’s, often been brewed as special beers, are often named thematically and th[…]

Pitchfork Tracks of 2007
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— 17 Dec 2007 Tom 14 comments

Pitchfork Tracks Of 2007: I’m in this, a bit (capsule reviews of T2, Groove Armada, Spoon) and voted in it and anyway it’s always intriguing to see what the P4K list turns up. What I thort of the Top 10, under the cut: (more…)[…]

The Vaults II
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— 15 Dec 2007 Tom 3 comments

Return to the Freaky Trigger archive, putting up content lost from several years ago. This time – White Town, Kelis, Radiohead, Kraftwerk and the Human League. (more…)[…]

Self-Organizing Systems In The London Bridge Pret A Manger
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— 14 Dec 2007 Tom 13 comments

I have been re-reading Philip Ball’s Critical Mass, his book about “social physics”, how the study of physics can lead us to understand aggregate human behaviour better. It’s very wide-ranging and interesting, with pretty obvi[…]

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The Lives And Times Of Pandora Peroxide
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— 13 Dec 2007 Tom 2 comments

Everything you ever wanted to know about the ladies voted (yet again) Kerrang!’s most fanciable female, by their creator. Not safe for post-adolescence.
(I will only take the NME annual “cool” polls seriously when Th’ Lone Gro[…]

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Post-Loll: Its Just Not Rollerball
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— 13 Dec 2007 Pete Baran 11 comments

OK, from the FUTURESPORTS desk on last nights FT & The Lollards Of Pop we first take a look at Keirin which chief engineer Carsmile Steve cited as the closest we get to Rollerball in actual sport. OK, there is a scooter involved SOMETIMES, but as[…]

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Series 2, Week 5
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— 12 Dec 2007 Rick 8 comments

Kat’s year 3000 high school paper. Why training apes is a bad idea. Extropians as cybermen. Ray Kurzweil’s argument by graph. Darren Hayes hits a time lock. Tobias X Future warns of death by bacon. Nostradamus predicts Hitler, Mother Shipton predicts lady trousers. Futurists love their food. The Free Design. Rollerball makes no sense. Future sport as war. Centrifugal bumble puppy. David Bowie’s drum and bass is 2005 years out of date. Utopias don’t exist. Busted STILL fancy their teacher.

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Transhuman Express – A Lollards antici-post
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— 12 Dec 2007 Alan 1 comment

Ed Regis’s “Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition” [Amazon] is a wonderful and funny collection of science writing. The tone is set in a great prologue about ‘bezoar stones’, but the focus of the book is on th[…]

Pole Are Bare
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— 12 Dec 2007 Tom 3 comments

I am sure a fuller discussion of the virtues and vices of The Golden Compass: The Movie will be forthcoming on FT soon, but a quick mention must be made of the Golden Compass QUIZZER which we saw afterwards. Fast work from IND:E games and lavish pr[…]

Fan Fiction For Imaginary Bands
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— 12 Dec 2007 Tom 6 comments

Doing the rounds on Livejournal over the last couple of days has been the “Wikipedia band meme”, a methodology for creating a fake band and record using random wikipedia articles. I first saw it on Rosie’s journal (her of Popular co[…]

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