Archives – 2004 – June – 01  

OMG WTF!!!
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OMG WTF!!!: Worthy but flawed ‘guide to online lingo’ from US Missing Kids centre (it’s a .pdf file). The idea is for parents to be able to ‘crack the code’ of their kids’ logged online chats and so find out if the[…]

No acrobatic sex please
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No acrobatic sex please, we’re CROATIAN![…]

I’M STUCK IN THE WALL! HELP! I’M STUCK IN THE WALL!
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I’M STUCK IN THE WALL! HELP! I’M STUCK IN THE WALL! Am I talking about the episode of Angel where Cordy moves into an apartment haunted by the ghost of a boy who was bricked up inside a wall by his mother for snogging the wrong girl? Am I[…]

The Post-TV Diaries: Part 1
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The Post-TV Diaries: Part 1
Well, it’s been about two months now. Taking the fact of our aerial breaking as a sign, we decided to give up television. And I can now be found waxing lyrical to anyone who will listen about the benefits of a TV-fre[…]

FT Top 100 Films 91: AFTER-LIFE
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(This film is Japanese and therefore whether or not there is a hyphen, a space or it is all one word is variable. Its actual title is of course in Japanese.)
So your dead. What next? It may all depend on what you believe in, it may all be moot. What […]

Horse Vs Greyhound race!
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Horse Vs Greyhound race! Hurrah for sporting gimmicks![…]

Arbitrariness
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As the current FT top 100 films suggests, there are two principles available on which to base lists of cultural artifacts. You can be arbitrary, and pretend to be being something else, or you can be arbitrary, and admit it.
James Wood, reviewing Rand[…]

Twilight Of The MP3Blog?
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Twilight Of The MP3Blog?: Yousendit, the file transfer service which became the hapless vehicle for many of the new blogs, is no longer offering unlimited transfer of under-10MB files.[…]

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