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Who Killed Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer appears to be live and kicking which is more than can be said of the old record industry model. It appears from her website that her record company didn't want to promote her first solo...

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How far away are stars?

Listen and watch George Hrab, describing how far away astronomical objects are to promote the 365 days of Astronomy podcast.This also seems to have inspired Evo Terra co-founder of podiobooks and all...

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Who's watching the Watchmen?

...Well me for one. I've never read the graphic novel but had to go see Watchmen because of the buzz on the Internet. I was a little taken aback by the lackluster reviews in the regular media, but...

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Bloatly HP Drivers ate my disk

Does a printer/scanner really need 355MB of my Windows disk?I bought a very nice HP Deskjet F4200 series printer, looks neat, cost very little, works well with my Linux PC using the Excellent HP Linux...

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White Wine In The Sun

via youtube.comA non-traditional but beautiful Christmas song from Tim MinchinPosted via web from Steve Bickle's posterous

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New Project Announcement- Tor.com podcast coming soon! : The Murverse

This has been in the works for months, and will finally launch next week:I will be the host and producer for the upcoming official Tor.com story podcast! We’ll be taking the original fiction published...

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2009‘s Podcast Finds

Since I've been travelling by train and tube more this past year so I've had more time to kill, and podcasts are an excellent way to do it (for some reason comedy and satire work really well for the...

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Clatter's 1950's "Buck Rogers" style music video

via clatter.comClatter "House of Trouble" Music VideoThis video is a great take on the old 1940s Sci-Fi film series. The music is good too. If you want to get another look at this with better volume...

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International Juggler 2009

via lukeburrage.comSee the world and watch Luke JugglePosted via web from Steve Bickle's posterous

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YouTube - Bad Apple!! - Stop Motion PV

via youtube.comAmazing stop motion web cam animation, thanks to Savage Popcorn (http://www.pulpmovies.com/blog/2010/02/watch-this-now-bad-apple) for pointing this out.Posted via web from Steve Bickle's...

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Amazon vs. Macmillan - eBooks are not Music

February 2010 saw a major bun fight between Amazon, perhaps the most significant channel to market, and Macmillan one of the foremost Publishers. The ins and outs of what happened when are widely...

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On-line Music Pricing “You want me to pay how much?”

Why should I have to pay 69p ($0.99) per track for any music I want to download? OK if its the latest hot release from a favourite contemporary rock band, but for an old 1950's blues number that's long...

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The Commons - explaining the commons in Video

via youtube.comI found this video in my feed reader, it shows the ideals behind the creative commons, and gives it a perspective beyond without getting bogged down in explaining copyright and how it...

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Awesome Bridges | Rocketboom

via rocketboom.comBridges can be the most beautiful of man's creations. The best of them are elegant as a result of form fitting function so perfectly. Bridges show engineering as art of the purest...

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BBC News - E-mail error ends up on road sign

via news.bbc.co.ukThe English is clear enough to lorry drivers - but the Welsh reads "I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated."Posted via web from Steve Bickle's posterous

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Deadly Codes - A free audio book from Podiobooks.com

via podiobooks.comToday I listened to a really good murder, thriller, private eye novella "Deadly Codes" by JP O'Donnell via the free iPod feed from Podiobooks. Well worth listening to, go take a look....

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Live So Far - New live album from Steve Lawson

via stevelawson.netJust downloaded the new live album from Steve Lawson, featuring his wife Lobellia and Todd Reynolds. The album is conveniently priced at whatever you wish to pay on Bandcamp, and can...

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The Apprentice’s Sorcerer by Dan Abnett in Hub episode 100

Issue 100 !Fiction:Under a Closed Sky by C.J. PagetThe Apprentice’s Sorcerer by Dan AbnettReview:Doctor Who – Dalek War BoxsetEnjoy ... PDF / Mobivia hubfiction.comThe Apprentice's Sorcerer - One of...

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The Bugcast - Well Chosen music and interesting chat

via thebugcast.orgI've been listening to The Bugcast for a few months now, the show is a Combination of music with informal conversation, that include interaction with their IRC chatroom. As part of my...

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All Bubbles

via flickr.comThis is an amazing set of photographs of bubbles, it includes stills of bubbles as they burst. This is a must see Flickr albumPosted via email from Steve Bickle's posterous

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Go Home Productions "Thin Genie"

via gohomeproductions.co.ukMash Ups can really mess up, but this is rarely the case with Go Home Productions. As proven by Thin Genie, which combines the talents of Thin Lizzie with Christina...

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Lukes having a bit of a problem with gravity

via lukeburrage.comLuke Burrage, juggler, occasional songwriter and SF Review podcaster, posted this video in his blog (http://www.lukeburrage.com/blog/archives/1220).>Posted via email from Steve...

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I've just sponsored a valve on Colossus

I've just sponsored a valve on Colossus to support The Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, I may be the 106th person to do so. At the moment my 200 pixels are pending,so there's a grey block with a...

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TED Blog | The numbers behind the Copyright Math

via blog.ted.comA rational look at the numbers behind copyright theft. You'd expect no less of a TED Talk.Posted via email from Steve Bickle's posterous

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End of Blog! - Meet the new blog

This blog has come to an end, but will rise again like a phoenix at my new blog In My Feed where there will be more regular posts on a diverse range of topics. If you have subscribed to this blog...

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