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Broadcast’s Trish Keenan: a singer for whom life was a discovery | Music | guardian.co.uk

17 January 2011 – 1:15 pm

"If the reaction of the blogosphere and Twitterati to Keenan's sudden death are reliable indicators, every one of their four studio albums should have been worldwide No 1s. Blur's Graham Coxon called the news "devastating". Chillwave artist, Toro Y Moi, aka Chaz Bundick, tweeted that Keenan was "one of my biggest influences", while Colin Meloy […]

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My Twitter quiz hell « Prospect Magazine

28 November 2009 – 11:00 am

idlewild had a song called 'Text Mesaging is Killing the Pub Quiz' – this is a merry dance on its corpse, and we must have one. – My Twitter quiz hell « Prospect Magazine.

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Alan Bennett on TV: nostalgia laced with insight and subversion …

12 May 2009 – 4:00 pm

Nice historical round-up of Bennet's TV appearances. – Alan Bennett on TV: nostalgia laced with insight and subversion ….

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Tetoris

11 March 2009 – 10:02 am

it's 'HD' Tetris, impossible. – Tetoris.

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Straight 8, super 8, gr8

3 March 2009 – 2:11 pm

"Entries are now open for this year’s Straight 8 competition. For those of you not in the know, Straight 8 invites filmmakers to make a film on a single cartridge of super 8 film and enter it undeveloped and unedited to the competition (with an original soundtrack). Then you just sit back and wait to […]

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Some thoughts on good meetings – Jon Hickman's posterous

26 February 2009 – 12:02 am

"love the fact that "good meeting" is an emergent meme on Twitter: the phrase is seen by a lot of people on Twitter as an empty platitude, the twitter equivalent of saying "er"." I did have a good meeting with Mr Hickman the other day, too. – Some thoughts on good meetings – Jon Hickman's […]

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The miner and the copper

24 February 2009 – 1:02 pm

Great piece of writing, about t one of the abiding images of the 1984 miners strike – "Guardian photographer Don McPhee's picture of a picketing miner facing up to an officer. But what happened to the two protagonists?". There's also a bit about it on Inside Out, BBC1, 7.30pm 24/2 in Yorkshire, if it appears […]

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Bad Science needs help, or at least link love

6 February 2009 – 1:07 pm

Ben Goldacre has had a nastygram from LBC 97.3 and “Global Radio” over posting audio of what he describes as "Jeni Barnett’s MMR scaremongering". If you're in a position to help, it would be appreciated. – Bad Science needs help, or at least link love.

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