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Lykke Li – “Dance Dance Dance”
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“blog-friendly singer from Sweden”[…]

Europop 2008: Group A – Turkey 1 Portugal 2
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The second group A match, between a confident Turkish side and the rudderless Portugese. Can Portugal get it together on the field? Listen for yourself to the MP3s, then look below the cut for managerial comment, analysis and voting details.

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CAN HAS CEILING CAT OF PWN! but no delicious link, SILY CEILING CAT![…]

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Merle Haggard – “Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive”
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Elegant country woefulness.[…]

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Hurry up Harriet!
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A friend who was attending london drinker last night pointed me to this new ale. She was as gobsmacked about this as I was. It’s very difficult to think of what else to say really, a lot of my female friends enjoy their ale already, and those[…]

Tetheradick, Metheradick, Bumfit
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This is something I wanted to talk about on last night’s Lollards but didn’t get around to, to do with lost languages of the UK. ‘Yan Tan Tethera’ were counting rhymes used by shepherds in the North West of England, and South […]

Europop 2008: Group A – Switzerland 3 Czech Republic 1
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The international festival of pop is AT LAST upon us! Europop 2008 opens with Switzerland vs Czech Republic, both teams stripped for action. Here’s the podcast for you to hear the tracks – you’ll find managerial analysis, comment[…]

A white season
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Revealing post on Troubled Diva showing the respective most-played-artists on BBC Radio 1, Radio 2 and 6Music, as revealed by last.fm – ‘urban’ station 1Xtra’s stats are in the comments boxes, which focus on a telling observa[…]

Twisty little passages – mazes re-solved
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Maze War is the grand-daddy of not only first-person shooters, but also networked multi-player games like World of Warcraft. I wouldn’t be surprised if there are mazes in WoW, Second Life etc, as they are the nursey-slopes for 3D environment cr[…]

QUIZ: kidlit is a genre dead as dead can be!
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Quomodo Invidiosulus Nomine Grinchus Christi Natalem Abroga[…]

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