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Just picked up one of those £15 stylophones Momus mentioned. (85m ago)
@cos: yes, I read it a month or so ago. (5h ago)
Just ordered from Amazon: Ben Frost - "Theory of Machines", Animal Collective - "Water Curses", Julian Cope - "Krautrocksampler". (5h ago)
Wiping/restoring my iPod, thanks to database fragility. Thank you, Apple and RIAA. My next MP3 player won't be an Apple. (6h ago)
@metaphorge: Or if you have a Java-enabled phone, you could just grab Cellity Twitter. http://www.cellity.com/twitter/ (17/5)
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2007/5/17
An email, incorrectly claiming that Apple's iPhone and Leopard had been delayed, wiped US$4bn off the value of the company . Once Apple issued a clarification, stock soon climbed back to most of its original value2006/5/17
Web 2.0 photo-sharing site Flickr has finally made it out of beta . Of course, it didn't do anything quite as gauche and pre-Web-2.0 as declaring itself to be a final release, so instead, it has2003/5/16
Rational Ministries could well be the next Time Cube . He goes on about communism (in a quasi-religious sort of way, mixed in with bits of Wagnerian Viking mysticism), LSD, sex and psychiatric medication, expounds