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Lookee what I just found in my referrer log: [www.google.com] Reader makes it easier to keep up with your ever-expanding reading list of content from across the web. * Spend your time reading what you care about most Reader automatically gets the latest news and updates for your favorite sites. You can sort your reading…

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[www.yat-kha.com] October 20..23rd

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[www.poets.org] In the days leading up to October 7, 1955, postcards circulated in San Francisco inscribed with the slogan, “6 poets at 6 Gallery.” The Six Gallery was a run-down art gallery at 311 Fillmore Street, and the six poets were: Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, Gary Snyder, and one unknown poet from the…

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Hmmm… [www.bbc.co.uk] A small plane jolts through the endless blue of an Australian sky, hot, red earth rising to meet it. It’s about 100 degrees in the shade: the acacia shimmers in the hard, blinding haze, stretching for miles to what has to be a mirage ” the shining, white dome of the Royal Australian…

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This is surreal: [www.cnn.com] NEW YORK (Billboard) — Major labels Sony BMG and EMI are releasing more and more new CDs that block fans from dragging their tunes to iPods. Now, in the most bizarre turn yet in the record industry’s piracy struggles, stars Dave Matthews Band, Foo Fighters and Switchfoot — and even Sony…

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I don’t know whether to laugh, or collapse in a gibbering heap. I suppose it depends on whether they use real tape, as opposed to its being just a “lifestyle” product… [www.makezine.com] Story about the 3M duct tape band-aids as well as a larger trend, duct tape becoming an acceptable wearable accessory – Many plasters…

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[news.bbc.co.uk] Voters are becoming more rude to politicians – and the BBC’s Jeremy Paxman is to blame, a senior Tory says. Caroline Spelman said she was “shocked” by the hostility she encountered from the public during the general election. “The practice of not allowing people to finish their sentences has really caught on,” she told…

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Well the deposit has gone in, and the ETA is sometime in March: All of the Trice models have good handling characteristics but the XL is superb and really must be experienced. The XL is super-stable because of its relatively low seat height and the result is a Trice, which is fast in a straight…

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Further to my recent posting about The Daily Show arriving in the UK, I just got off AIM with a widely-travelled American friend who took me slightly to task: (Notes in [brackets], mildly edited for clarity/grammar/speeling) Him: I think you’re missing something about “The Daily Show“ Me: Hmm? Him: It’s hard to explain… It has…

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It’s exactly what every British person will think it means, and nothing to do what any American might suspect. [wellhungmeat.com]

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I really have no idea how successful this will be, but amongst the goodies to soon be arriving on yet another (hooray!) Channel4-Themed Channel – More4 – will be the “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” [en.wikipedia.org] on a 1-day delay. Some of my colleagues in the USA worship this program – but then the…

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This is Part 2. You might want to read Part 1 first. There are three kinds of Little Old Ladies in England; there are some who are made of tweed and oak, and others who are made of silver and mother-of-pearl, and some who are made of finest paper-thin porcelain, and the one sat across…

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