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I Love Nemi

2008-07-03T12:59:48Z

Found these in the book shop whilst I was browsing at lunchtime. Long-time members of Closet Goth will know of my penchant for Nemi and now I can take her home and laugh at / with her whenever I like......

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Culture QotW: Everyone Should Read This Book

2008-05-30T08:30:02Z

Which one book do you wish everyone in your life would read? It's just epic......I can't believe that I had never even heard of this book until last year, and even then only because I saw someone reading it on the train and thought "That looks i...

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Confession

2008-05-14T11:12:50Z

Placebo's "Slave to the Wage" (Lyrics Below) popped up on my iPod shuffle the other day, whilst I was on the train home and it took me back to some dark times, two years ago that I have never really talked about to anybody except my very best fri...

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The inevitability of Death

2008-05-08T12:21:55Z

I have just finished reading An Unexpected Light: Travels in Afghanistan by Jason Elliot which I heartily recommend. In it is a story told to the author which just struck a fatalistic chord with me, I don't know why? It just did. A young follow...

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You're Hired.

2008-04-30T14:58:00Z

So after nearly two months without gainful employment I have been offered a new job. I am intending to start on Tuesday. All I have to do is sort out the final payment from the company that made me redundant - Surprise, surprise it arrived in my b...

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'Free Tibet' flags made in China

2008-04-29T08:28:01Z

Police in southern China have discovered a factory manufacturing Free Tibet flags, media reports say. The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Workers said they thought t...

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Army chief defends recruitment move

2008-03-17T14:42:18Z

The Army's chief recruiter has defended the decision to launch a £2 million public relations campaign on the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Brigadier Andrew Jackson, Commander of the Army Recruiting Group, said the timing was "coincid...

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How would Alan or Donald Put It.......?

2008-03-12T13:12:24Z

.......You're fired! It's true - I had the novel experience of being put on a month's notice yesterday and effectively made redundant. I won't bore you with the details, but the start-up I was working for has in effect become a "Stop!" as the p...

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Wednesday 12 March : Launch of Online Free Expression Day

2008-03-11T09:14:10Z

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will launch the first International Online Free Expression Day under UNESCO’s patronage on 12 March, when it will also organise its second “24-hour online demo against Internet censorship,” urging Internet users to...

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Not so fond farewell to Eritrea by Peter Martell, BBC News

2008-03-10T12:50:51Z

Deep inside the tall towers of Eritrea's Ministry of Information, the battle-scarred war veteran leaned towards me across his desk. His finger pointed towards a heavily-underlined copy of a report I had written the day before. "Why," he sai...

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