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Adam, Josie and Priya Pathak (amongst others)
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So i went to Edinburgh and managed not to show my arse in the back of shot for the recording of the (still dire) Edinburgh Show at the Pleasance…
I did go and see quite a lot of really good shows though, amazingly not a single stinker in 15 or […]

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the naming of smells
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years ago brian eno gave a lecture in which he argued that the space occupied by PERFUME is multidimensional in a way that cannot be easily mapped — but this post is about how deodorant companies attempt to do just this, not geometrically it&#8[…]

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stuffed olives from the DELTA QUADRANT
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get:
one bottle chinese STEM GINGER
one can LYCHEES
tiny glass ginger wine
then do this:
1: pour liquid from bottle and can and glass into jug and MIX
2: chop stem ginger to slivers (not tiny)
3: put slivers into lychees
4: pour jug over stuffed lyc[…]

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drawbacks of a black cooking pot =
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small black beetles can TUMBLE IN and not GET OUT AGAIN and are INVISIBLE till you find em FLOATING DEAD in yr LOVELY FISH SOUP pah yuk grue![…]

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Call For Submissions: THE LONG EGG
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The man who invented the Gala Pie is a hero of mine. Not just because he took one of natures nicest foodstuff (namely the pork pie) and made it even better. He made it better by the addition of the hard boiled egg. But not just any old hard boiled eg[…]

SoftHardware
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Eleksen’s fabric wireless keyboard
Just wanted to share this with you. All I’m waiting for now is the roll up e-ink style display, and I’m sorted.
The guts of most PDAs and pocket/bag gadgets must surely be teensy – it’s all[…]

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What Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon Cover Would Actually Look Like…
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If it was actually on the Dark Side Of The Moon.

However, having been to the moon, and more importantly having spoken to people who know something about the moon (FT’s own science teacher Alan), I can confirm that there isn’t actually a […]

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yay cultural treachery (kinda)
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i wz only half watchin ENEMY OF THE STATE (1998) f.will smith, gene hackman last night (bcz i wz flickin over to HOUSE yes HOUSE i sed HOUSE — and then also after a doc abt the cult of steroids), but if ever you want to contemplate how mainstre[…]

Well Done That Brand
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Marketing magazine published its annual Britain’s Biggest Brands survey this week. And what’s this I see?
A new entry at No.45? The highest percentage growth of any brand on the list? 120 million sales this year? Who could it be but&#8230[…]

THIS IS WHAT SCIENCE IS FOR!!
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haha ew
— via geeta who does not love us any more :([…]

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