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The fight is so big this weekend some players have bundled in already
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The fight is so big this weekend some players have bundled in already. Most shops have jumped the gun on Pro-Evolution Soccer 3’s intended launch date ‘ if you haven’t found it by now, its only because you haven’t looked prop[…]

I think the boffins may have pranged a kite here
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I think the boffins may have pranged a kite here.
In an attempt to define a unit of fame (the “Warhol” perhaps?) they seem to have neglected its overriding property – that fame is comparative. The fame of each participant affects t[…]

A kindred spirit to a lot of people who read this
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A kindred spirit to a lot of people who read this apart from maybe the Blur album[…]

Mmmm, potato kugel
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Mmmm, potato kugel
After reading about this “potato, egg, salt, grease” concoction, I obviously needed to make some. I used the recipe at the end of this piece, and it worked quite well. Grating all those potatos took forever, mind you.[…]

The perfect cheese sandwich, proven by science
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The perfect cheese sandwich, proven by science
And it’s 0.225b+0.196f+0.181e + 0.136p +0.134c + 0.127s.
But margarine on a cheese sandwich? Ew.[…]

I Hate(d) Music
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This is a highly personal story. I’m writing it because I wanted to write something. Because it gives me a way to give myself a purpose outside from merely working again. Because it makes me understand myself better. Because I love music, and proba[…]

I was never a mahousive football supporter as a youth
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I was never a mahousive football supporter as a youth. Sure, I supported Manchester City, but that was only out of a complete and utter hatred for Manchester United, and being a fan of G. Kinkladze and the lovely blue shirts. Sure I supported Preston[…]

Video Game criticism should be better.
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Video Game criticism should be better. An interesting if currently futile piece criticising video-game criticism as being about games as purely functional economic objects. It is true that much commercial criticism does seem obsessed with the newness[…]

If I get one thing out of the Rugby World Cup
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If I get one thing out of the Rugby World Cup (and quite possibly I will only get one thing since my love of watching Rugby Union knows some bounds) it was watching Scotland struggle against Japan on Sunday. Not due to any dislike of the Scot’s[…]

Kill Me Again… And Again… And Again
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The Curse of Invulnerability, by Pete ‘Unbreakable’ Baran
It is the end of the film. Action and adventure have been laid before us as our hero has battled insurmountable odds to finally face the arch villain. Sneaking up on him our hero […]

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