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Who Is The Real Pest? (Brandwatch)
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— 23 Aug 2006 Pete Baran 4 comments

So Coca-Cola and Pepsi are in trouble in India over pesticide levels in their drinks. Its an issue I know quite a bit about, working somewhere which boycotted Coca-Cola for some time. And as ever, this boils down to communication rather than science.[…]

This Week’s Obligatory Porn Story
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— 23 Aug 2006 Tom 3 comments

Well-Meaning Website Stymied By Thick Interweb User: or alternatively, “That’s 1 In The I for Txtspk” depending on yr view on who exactly is the idiot here. Would any nippers have visited this website anyway? Probably about as many […]

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Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mini Mussolini?
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— 22 Aug 2006 Pete Baran 31 comments

Despite a brief cameo by Michael Schumacher Car, the filum Cars steers clear of German cars. Oh, there’s a VW campervan, but that is a hippy, with a typical hippy accent (its your grandad’s idea of a hippy at that, straight out of early s[…]

while you were out debating poptimism…
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— 22 Aug 2006 mark sinker 2 comments

… the cultural paradigm done fell over, like
“his favourite television shows were The Wonder Years, Miami Vice and MacGyver”[…]

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— 22 Aug 2006 Pete Baran Comment

Find-a-grave. Your one stop shop for, er, finding a famous (or non-famous) persons grave.[…]

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Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mini Hitler?
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— 22 Aug 2006 Pete Baran 8 comments

Premise Number 1: The Ashes as fought between England and Australia is a great trophy precisely due to its lack of monetary value and excess of symbolic value. (more…)[…]

Carm On “People”
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— 22 Aug 2006 Tom 10 comments

Visionary ranting from one-time FT contributor Robin Carmody on Pulp and “Common People” and pop before and after the Britpop boom. Stirring, on-form stuff. Probably because he doesn’t hoist his banner (ironically or otherwise) for[…]

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My Cameo In A Scanner Darkly
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— 21 Aug 2006 Pete Baran 3 comments

Is A Scanner Darkly a faithful Philip K.Dick adaptation? I HOPE NOT. What is the point of a faithful adaptation of anything? What does it bring to the table, nothing new? So, instead Linklater’s rotoscoped (don’t say cartoon) version of t[…]

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Scissor Sisters: Don’t Feel Like Dancin’
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— 21 Aug 2006 Tanya Headon 15 comments

What a coincidence. The Scissor Sisters don’t feel like dancing. And I don’t feel like listening. And not just because they’ve updated their schtick from being Elton John copyists to Leo Sayer copyists*. Not even because the whole s[…]

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FIGS!
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— 21 Aug 2006 Sarah 9 comments

Figs, FT readers! I love them! My budget always breaks in the supermarket when I reach the fig aisle – oh some might go for the dried prunes inna bag, some might go for the dried APPLE inna bag (yuck!), but not for me! Sainsburys Organic Figs Y[…]

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