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size of an OILSPILL! aka satan over the stipertones
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If you have google earth, then paul rademacher‘s plug-in will help you visualise the physical scale of this environmental disaster — just type in the locale of your choice as the epicentre[…]

In Which Lytton Age 3 1/4 Speculates on the Doctor Who Season Arc
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Contains potential SPOILERS! (more…)[…]

Pop World Cup – Weekend Update – Round of 16 – 2
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Two Pop World Cup managers in the studio this week, but hope is alive for only one of them. Honduras manager Steve Hewitt sits in with Roger Bozack and a bereft Peter Baran as Hewitt’s Honduran squad faces Portugal, Paraguay meet the Netherland[…]

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Pop World Cup on Resonance FM 104.4
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(Almost) all of this week’s pop footballing action will be reviewed and discussed tomorrow at 4pm on Resonance FM 104.4 by your faithful hosts, pictured in flagrante at right. This is a regular 30 minute show, broadcast every Saturday in London[…]

Pop World Cup 2010: Round of 16 Match 8 – Spain 1 Cote d’Ivoire 0
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It’s been a remarkably strong round of sixteen, and here we are at the end of it! Alberto’s Spain and Wichita Lineman’s Cote d’Ivoire both looked very classy in the group stages and both will be entertaining realistic hopes of[…]

Pop World Cup 2010: Round of 16 Match 7 – Honduras 2 Portugal 1
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On to match seven of the Round of Sixteen! Will it be a lucky seven for Carsmile Steve’s Honduras, making it through the groups stage with a heavy reliance on fine, fine reggaeton? Or will this match see Job de Wit’s Portugal side, much a[…]

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Great News For All Our Readers!
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I am really excited about this one! For the last several years, Mike at Troubled-Diva has been running a fantastic feature called Which Decade Is Tops For Pops? The format is simple: the Top 10s from today, 10 years ago, 20 years ago and so on are ru[…]

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The FT Top 25 Pubs of the 00s No 6: The Shakespeares Head, Islington
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Very few pubs attract punters with the promise of shocks which will have you leaping out of your seat. And yet the second time I went to the Shakespeare’s Head, that was the reason I went there. I wanted to see Shakey newcomers surprised when, […]

Pop World Cup 2010: Round of 16 Match 6 – Cameroon 3 New Zealand 1
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This is the sixth of the eight matches in the Round of Sixteen – already! Neither Weston Debevec’s Cameroon nor Steve M’s New Zealand would necessarily be high on most lists of favourites for the tournament, but it’s not hard […]

Pop World Cup 2010: Round of 16 Match 5 – Netherlands 3 Paraguay 1
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As we move into the second half of the Round of 16, we come across a game which may not have been an obvious highlight but, for PWC followers, has an intrigue all of its own. Iain F’s Netherlands team have been winning friends and matches with […]

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