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Just started reading Daniel Clowes' "David Boring". Oh man... (16/10)
Brighton to East Croydon and East Croydon were comfortable; the Overground to Shepherd's Bush, however, is a sardine can. (16/10)
is at the Komedia in Brighton, in front of the stage, waiting for Los Campesinos to go on. (16/10)
I can now believe that Clapham Junction is the busiest railway station in Europe. (16/10)
Just got followed for no reason by what looks like the official TiddlyWiki Twitter feed. No idea why unless they've been pwned by spammers (16/10)
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2007/10/15
Tonight I saw Control, Anton Corbijn's Ian Curtis biopic. It was quite well done, I thought. As you'd expect from Corbijn, it had its starkly atmospheric shots (entirely in black and white), echoing some of the2006/10/11
A US lawyer has noticed plugging a dangerous hole in the world's intellectual-property regime, a hole which costs chefs and restauranteurs untold godzillions of dollars: the fact that food cannot be copyrighted, and it is perfectly2003/10/15
Danny O'Brien on how the pervasiveness of the internet is bringing about the end of the private register , i.e., of the sphere between public and secret. He uses as his example a private get-together of