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The Power Of Metro!
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— 9 Feb 2009 Tom 7 comments

BLIMEY. I will be on Radio 2 at ten past six, talking to Chris Evans about Popular.
(I’ll delete this post after the event, so as not to clog up the front page. And I will get on which writing the next Popular entry, which is after all a great […]

More rubbish science
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— 9 Feb 2009 Martin Skidmore 3 comments

I just read on the BBC’s site that there really are intelligent aliens. This article may represent the research accurately, but that just tells us that the ‘research’ is a bunch of people making up shit and feeding it into a compute[…]

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The Incredibles Journey
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— 9 Feb 2009 Pete Baran Comment

So Bolt is a cute animal (Finding Nemo) with realistic fur (Monsters Inc) who is the star of a TV and believes the TV show is real (er – The Truman Show). His cute girl owner Penny (Inspector Gadget?) is also in the show, in which Bolt (Bolt) p[…]

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How You Know You’ve Made It: pt 263
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— 9 Feb 2009 Pete Baran 19 comments

Yes, yes – we’ve been mentioned in the Guardian, the Independent and FHM(!), but you know you’ve actually made it when you are mentioned in the real actual PAPER OF RECORD. No not the Times, (actually I think we have already been me[…]

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