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Nine reasons your IT guy/gal hates you
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9 Things The Non-Tech Savvy Do That Annoy Geeks has generated a lot of comments on Digg. So I thought I’d try posting my own (and then self-Digging this post in a pathetic attempt to get some hits. [nb this shouldn’t work])
Don’t ge[…]

The Top 50 Women Who Really Understand Men
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 Irrational. Contradictory. Mad. The top 50 is an irrational list. But what do you expect – it was voted for by men!
We at Freaky Trigger towers were shocked when we saw the Observer Woman Magazine’s Top 50 Men Who Really Understand Wome[…]

Lots of Random Cats
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Random Cats site found on Digg the other day. Fun if you have HALF AN HOUR to spend looking at them all. More fun that hitting refresh on your favourite off-line bulletin board.[…]

Notes On A Pepper-Grinder
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Notes On A Scandal is a well made adaptation of a good, yet difficult book. Both are compelling, yet uncomfortable to watch and read. The impending sense of sadness and tragedy which fill both cannot exactly be described as entertainment – whic[…]

Freaky Trigger and the Lollards of Pop – Week 6
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FORM from St Custards. Host Tim, guests Tom, Pete, Sarah. The Wall, favourites streets in london, Dragonette – Competition, Comping, dr druqs and the stranglers, hoaxing and the monk, The WHO – won’t get fooled again, Dr Brand and TOTP, Shocking Blue – Never Marry a Railroad man, Changelings and Centaurs, Bird Flu – MIA.

Brandwatch: Menace To The Max
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Next week, DC Thomson are launching Beano MAX, not a low-sugar version of the popular kids’ comic but instead a giant size, kind-of-monthly publication with longer stories “designed to give these well-known characters more depth”.
T[…]

Poptimism – Lesson Twenty Eight
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Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne
Love Hammer – Layo & Bushwacka! v MC Hammer (Outlaws bootleg)
Rattled Little Clam – Lullaby Baxter
Oh, MJ! – The Little Ones (stereolab vocal remix)
Painted By Numbers – The Sounds (more&[…]

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TV Sci-Fi For Kids: The Year Is 1987… (Porn version)
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“…And America launches the last of NASA’s deep space probes…”
Of the two US space operas available to me as a child, and then again as an “ironic” Def II viewing late teenager, I always much prefered Buck Rog[…]

Thoughts from a 76
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Is there another major thoroughfare in London that has such a great array of divers buildings as Fleet Street?

Three Wren churches (OK, so St Clements Danes is *just* Aldwych), The deco majesty of the Express Building, the Protestant Truth Society, […]

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sci-fi for kids: supplemental
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Not a review proper — tho I should do one — but just a note of a curious fact about William Mayne’s EARTHFASTS trilogy: viz Earthfasts (1966); Cradlefasts (1995); and Candlefasts (2000). The stories are about (inadvertent) time-trav[…]

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