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Sci-Fi For Kids: Judging A Book By Its Cover
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— 22 Nov 2006 Pete Baran 13 comments

As we are dipping our toes into this water, and reminiscing on the mobile library days AND Mark’s prescient Heinlein cover mutters on twin-lit, let me share. I read a lot of sci-fi as a kid. And the pre-history of my interest would factor in sp[…]

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The FreakyTrigger Top 25 Brands: 23: PANINI
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— 22 Nov 2006 Tom 8 comments

One of the great – though cynical – goals of marketing is to encourage consumers to waste stuff. Not in the enviro-friendly sense of extra packaging – the brands put that shit on their products when it was fashionable and they&#8217[…]

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FT Top 100 Songs: 65: TEARS FOR FEARS – Pale Shelter
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— 22 Nov 2006 Pete Baran 3 comments

* Just Because.
OK. This list was derived almost two years ago now, and in our slow, thoughtful trawl through it, throws up odd anomalies such as this. Why Tears For Fears in 2004? Do we dare blame Donnie Darko?
Of course we bloody blame Donnie D[…]

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