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Meta-motherfucker-reup.
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Migurski's standup desk. Quite tempting.
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[It occurred to me that this fits into the 8inches theme of iconclasm, leftovers, supplements, remainders, offcuts in art.]
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On the impending EU cosmetics animal testing ban [nb it has been banned in UK for years] driving research into artificial skin.
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On the danger/opportunities of artistic output of clones, with Ishiguro and Houellebecq cited. Amusing comments. Fear that http://io9.com/tag/entropist/ will be the only bit of io9 that's good.
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very good. Nabokov, Joyce, Hemingway, sex, delay, nostalgia and of course the madeleines. "Actually, anything fragmented, as the romantics knew from Percy's Reliques, is granted a penumbra of suggestion that we mistake and read as vividness of outline."
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Manjit Bedi has been in Argentina seeing interesting things.
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Poets write for Jamie Cullum and rapper/Zadie Smith sibling Doc Brown. Content needs to be edited for - primarily oriented around? - performability. Results not bad considering. [Who gets the writing royalty should either of these be releasable?]
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Fixed gear porn.
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In theory, the unique "code nut" recessed in a cylinder means you can leave your front wheel on and only your PIT key will undo it, with no brute-forcing possible. Will report back on how whether the wheel's still there.
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De Lillo next to Auster at the Yankees (Mets suck!)
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Haven't read this yet, but listening to R4 adaptation this avo, was wondering whether Wharton's 1920 novel of manners and social protocol could be usefully adapted for blogging, twittering, conferencing society.
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