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Just found out that Black Box Recorder are playing. Alas, it's when I'm in Australia. (6h ago)
In the shop, Radiohead's "Kid A" was playing. I had forgotten how good an album it is... (1/12)
Just visited Magma in Clerkenwell, buying one book (a present). Cool shop; I should visit more often. (1/12)
At the Google Open Source Jam. Just learned that in UK elections,all ballot papers have serial numbers which are linked to voters' IDs. WTF? (1/12)
just sent a message to the Australian government about its internet censorship plans, via http://www.getup.org.au/../442 (1/12)
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2007/11/27
The UX, the secretive Parisian underground exploration group which built an underground cinema in the city's labyrinthian catacombs, pulled off an even more impressive feat last year: breaking into the Panthéon and surreptitiously repairing its clock2006/12/1
Making shameless copies of well-known foreign gadgets has been big in China; now, a Chinese company has taken it to a new scale, with an electric Smart car knockoff . The "CMEC City Smart" looks almost2003/11/30
Some believe that al-Qaeda doesn't exist , and that the highly organised global terror network is a myth made up by Western officials: 'Bin Laden never used the term al-Qaeda prior to 9/11', Dolnik tells me.