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the history of all hitherto existing society is a history of CHARACTER CLASS STRUGGLE
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further to lollardry chat last sunday, a bunch of US pol-blog ultranerds examine the relationship between neocon philosophy and pop culture in regard to superheroes, D&D and — of course — BEARDS!
(see also: the Green Lantern Theory of[…]

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Top 5 Science Books You May Not Have Read – #5 Robert Axelrod’s ‘The Evolution of Cooperation’
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I trust you all watched the first of Adam Curtis’s new documentary on freedom last night (The Trap, repeated BBC4 surely, so look out for it.) It might have left you in a state of paralysis as he traced the impact that a strain of game theory h[…]

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Toots and Sidney
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Important BASH STREET KIDS news (following up on yesterday’s Lollards): it’s sadly too late – both in closing date and in age of readers terms – for FT staff to enter Blue Peter’s competition to “create a new Bash […]

It’s a dog’s life
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As Crufts 2007 reaches its climax, the national and local press have been giving plenty of column space to doggy-related stories this week. It seems that the canine world can be pretty ruff sometimes. Oho! (more…)[…]

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Week 10
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CLASS from the Maze of Zagor. Host Tom, guests Mark, Alex and Magnus (and Pete). Things that have changed in britain, death of capt america/baudrillard, reggae reggae sauce, Surrender – Cheap Trick, reflections on genre, Kronos Quartet – Spoonful, more genre, Little Drummer Boy – Joan Jett, school stories and digression into where people went to school, stalky and the bash st kids, Making Plans for Nigel – Nouvelle Vague, Role-Playing Games and character class, Eton Rifles – The Jam.

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FT Top 100 Songs: 65 64: CHRISTINA AGUILERA – Dirrrty
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I didn’t like Dirrrrrrrty when I first heard it. Indeed I probably heard it about twenty times before I finally got it. And that is when I saw it. I remember exactly where this was. In a hotel room in Brussels, Belgium.
How many moments of your[…]

Poptimism – Lesson Thirty Something
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Who Likes Who – Jordan Pruitt
12 Bar Acid Blues – Siobhan Donaghy
Song 4 Mutya – Groove Armada
Sexy Twilight Back – Justin Timberlake v 2 Unlimited
Dancing With Tears In My Eyes – Novaspace (more…)[…]

Captain America (Post contains spoilers)
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Major development for Captain America (for now, anyway). Cap – strangely for such an “iconic” creation – is probably the character who has changed the most, tonally, in my comics reading lifetime. This latest event seems pitc[…]

J-Pop J-Pop Hair Scoobie Doos
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So the most e-mailed news story at the moment on the BBC News Website* is Reggae Reggae Sauce going on sale. Seen as a triumph for the BBC programme Dragon’s Den, one assumes this is not just a good confident businessman, but a nice sauce too. […]

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