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b-but starry’s blog is HERE!!?!
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HERE
radio free narnia just got googled for “egypt mummies stolen by pirates”
(note to self: no.7 = nowhere, bub)[…]

Any science story that has a photo of Avril Lavigne
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Any science story that has a photo of Avril Lavigne with the subtitle “Some viruses masquerade as images of pop stars” cannot be all bad. As it is the BBC (yes, they own us today) is telling yet another gleeful story about how Windows XP […]

FT Top 100 Films 29: CASABLANCA
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FT Top 100 Films
29: CASABLANCA
First, the film would not work if it was called White House. Obv.
Second, for bald-faced propagandist politics, you cannot get better than Casablanca. The subtext is “them crap Europeans always need us Yanks to s[…]

Phospholipase is new tag for graffiti artist
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Phospholipase is new tag for graffiti artist
Loved this story..although obviously not condoning expression of art/science through the forum of spraying public property.[…]

Have You Heard The Flowers Talking?
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Have You Heard The Flowers Talking?
Huzzah, welcome to Japanese invention corner. A vase that turns your flowers into stereo* speakers. It does seem that it means you speakers have a short shelf life, as long as your cut flowers, and one suspects thi[…]

I Hate Music lyric watch #22: R. Kelly – “I Wish”
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As you know, I have a particular dislike of ANY songs with the word If in the title. But even Midge Ure has been eclipsed in stupidity by R.Kelly’s latest mid-tempo yawnfest.
If I was a psychic
I’d know our love would last
Because I&#8217[…]

DELIGHTS OF SOLO TRAVELLING
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DELIGHTS OF SOLO TRAVELLING
1: Staying in bed all day
I have a pretty protestant work ethic. In my usual day to day, not only do I rarely have sick days off, but even at the weekend I am usually up and out by 10am. I have never been sure if this is a[…]

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SOME MOTHERS DO HAVE ‘EM
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SOME MOTHERS DO HAVE ‘EM

And Sometimes they get – BIG!
It is Michael Crawford in a fat suit for his role in the new Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical The Woman In White. I am hoping that the attendant hooh-hah about this Wilkie Collins adaptat[…]

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THE SQUARE TABLE 17 / Girls Aloud – “Love Machine”
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POP FACTOR: 774 CONTROVERSY RATING: 190
Girls Aloud take their mockabilly strut a little too fast, there’s a lockstep urgency to the rhythm that makes the fun more frantic by giving you the feeling they’re just a trip away from falling […]

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“my five-year-old cd do better!”
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“my five-year-old cd do better!”
(ans = blimey i can’t get MY five year old to throw ANYTHING away!!) haha yes well anyway i just had an excellent argt w.my nice co-worker abt how rubbish-as-art is just rubbish not art: so far soho[…]

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