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Archive for October, 2006

Back pain rocks!

I love this story:
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has created a Virtual rock band called Bäackpain to promote wider public awareness of back pain. The band has done well on MySpace and is getting mixed reactions from the press and media so far.
And as VNUnet.com says:

To add authenticity to the whole spoof, there [...]

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So who reads?

Richard Bailey recently asked this, and yesterday the Observer asked 150 literary luminaries to vote for the best British, Irish or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005 and tomorrow is the Booker Prize. It seems you can’t turn today without some very credible source telling you you must be reading.
And, as credible sources often are, [...]

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Second Life

Months after first hearing about it and commenting that this was probably the future of the whole MySpace/blogging phenomenon, I have finally joined Second Life.
I am of course rather coy about the fact that I am coming to the party a bit late. But the reason I write is that as soon as I join [...]

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