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When A Man You’ve Never Met Before Gives You Flowers
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He’s probably been dumped by the girl he bought them for.
Impulse, the Just Seventeen of the deodorant world*, is advertising on the side of buses at the moment (can I find one on the web, can I heck). Three new fragrances to add to their alrea[…]

Eurovision Song Contest Semi-Final
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OK, quite a lot of spoilers if you are intent on remaining unknowing until Saturday, but without giving too much away, tonight was a TRAVESTY (hahaha, i was on the internet in minutes, registering my disgust!), and there are three songs that RLY RLY […]

KING. OF. BEERS.
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“Budweiser has rice in it. So what? So do Asahi and Kirin of Japan, Bintang of Indonesia and Efes of Turkey, and nobody has such a hate on about them.” Daniel Davies at Crooked Timber wages poptimist war on beer snobbery…
UPDATE: bu[…]

This Isn’t England. This Is Something Else.
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Shane Meadows “This Is England” is an affecting portrait of skinhead life in the early eighties. Tied closely into the twin historical behemoths of the Falklands and mass unemployment, it manages to show both sides of the skinhead culture[…]

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Redesigns On you Audience
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So the Guardian online: Guardian Unlimited has had a redesign. Not that surprising, the previous design did seem like a slight hangover from the three column era (the BBC are still sticking by that, but it can only be a matter of time: we ditched it […]

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Focus Group 11 – TAKE THAT
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Take That – “Shine” – Score: 5.26 (7th) – Controversy: 3.08 (4th)
(Females: 4th. Males: 9th. Under 30s: 12th. Over 30s: 5th.)
Most like: Kaiser Chiefs. Most unlike: MIA. (more…)[…]

char sui: guess my porky!
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Well, I don’t mean me sauce of course, that would be disgusting… anyway!
Tonight I’m going to be carrying out a little experiment. I found some char sui sauce in the local shop (good old shop, it is the nicest thing about New Cross […]

TV Cream’s Toy Catalogue
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TV Cream’s Toy Catalogue. Yet more proof that TV cream does pay revisiting from time to time — and it looks like they’ve actually been working on this since late 2005. It’s updated like a blog, but indexed A–Z. Here are […]

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FT Periodic Table: Element 3: ROBOTS
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Robots. And not the so-so computer animated flick of 2005, but real actual robots, computer-brained servants made to follow our every need. The Freaky Trigger periodic table is forward looking to anticipate – in our time – more domestic s[…]

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What is a Straighthead anyway?
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Nearly all the reviews of Straightheads have been dismissive of this British revenge flick (example from Time Out here). Generally it got one star, half a paragraph and a snide remark that Gillian Anderson was slumming it. And perhaps in the upmarket[…]

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