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Ha! In yr face Second Life!
Discussion of this story in the office made me realise why SL, as an interweb community, suXoR even beyond the hype, slowness, lack of a decent combat system etc. IT HAS NO LURKERS. ILX gets 20k viewers per day (not claimi[…]

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The similiarites between the Internet and a dentist’s waiting room
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Bless its widdle heartThe sense of ritual, the anticipation of pain—yes and yes. But also those crufty issues of Popular Mechanics and People magazine from god knows when. Even the logos looks oddly dated. Can they really be that old? Yes again.

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The Old Person Fancies Young Person Plot
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So in The Mother, Anne Reid plays a woman in her late fifties, visiting her daughter in London who falls in love with her boyfriend and has Teh Sex with him. He is a bit hairy and not at all as attractive as Daniel Craig these days. But it was hailed[…]

Moving Funny Folk
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One of my favourite old bits of FT was Funny Folk, Al Ewing’s take on the New Yorker cartoons, which adequately speared the obvious: namely that New Yorker cartoons not only stated the obvious, they stated the obvious five years after anyone el[…]

Nine Reasons The Vaguely Tech-Literate Hate Our IT Guy/Gal
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Since mean-spriritedness is in the air (not here obv, but in other places and of course on the emo kid / indie kid / Tanya Pink Floyd articles) I thought I would respond to Alan’s continuation to the Digg 9 Things The non-tech savvy do to&#8230[…]

Mais Non!
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Johnny Halliday to change nationality.
Where will the cheap jokes about French rock come from now? Can we expect a New Beat album?[…]

Poptimism – Lesson Twenty Nine
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Total Eclipse of the Heart – Westlife (Sunset Strippers remix)
Shine – Take That
Get Lucky – Dragonette
Dream on – Robyn & Ola Salo
Say It Right – Nelly Furtado
XR2 Turbo – MIA (more…)[…]

don’t eat the glowing squirrels
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NJ officials say: don’t eat the squirrels, they’re contaminated with toxic waste
Where do I even begin???
Is this why the various revisions of Joy of Cooking don’t have entries on how to skin and prepare squirrels anymore?[…]

Better Than Ezra
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Poking my head up from my current secret hideaway from those menko Pink Floyd fans, to test the water. And who better to test this water on than Better Than Ezra fans. Let’s be fair, a pretty small subsection. And group to whom I only have one […]

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Only Begun To Fight!
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This is the first in an irregular series of posts looking at issues of FANTASTIC FOUR, “The World’s Greatest Comics Magazine”. There are several reasons I picked this title:
– It’s sometimes been very good and sometimes […]

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