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    What the blinkers is wrong with being a hipster?

    Nothing boring about this.
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    Cooking pasta. Oil in the water or not?

    For me, the idea of boiling oil is repellent. I have, however, done this in the past, and found that the worry—whether or not the chemical properties of the oil were changing to become TRANS FAT—was too much to bear. The starch that exists on the pasta in its cooked form is integral to...
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    Macs, Intel chips...

    Right, I guess it's really x86 OS X, not Intel OS X. I read somewhere this morning that a developer build of x86 OS X is already on P2P. I wonder if that's true. The AMD question may have already been answered and all of Intel's draconian DRM will be in vain.
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    chav--explain to a confused expatriate please

    I don't think the idea of a "hostile and parasitic" youth culture is anything new, so I too think this is the central feature of the debate. I would be more interested in trying to define the different types of speakers on this thread and elsewhere who tend to offer either sympathy, solidarity...
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    Macs, Intel chips...

    Looks like Linux on AMD chipset is the only future. Apple have signed their death warrant.
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    the bush last night

    As was the hilarious Bush The Consensus Builder schtick. A paraphrase: "We're working together with four other nations to pursue dip-lo-matic solutions. Of course, all options are on the table" (pregnant pause). So very many WTFs in such a short time.
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    Bjork?

    If that's the case I wish more people would follow suit, even if Medulla does fall victim to its own process.
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    Unbelievable : le grime débarque à Paris !

    «on a déja gagné ce rap jeu».
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    Badiou, Spinoza, Lacan and moNONtheism

    Il m'arrive que la réalité soit trop complexe I wonder if the language barrier plays a part. Delivering a paper in your second language (which I'm assuming is what happened here) and then being questioned about it afterwards has got to be an exercise in frustration. And cautiousness.
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    bookmarks in Safari

    Let's say you have a fairly large folder containing bookmarked blogs. It would be nice to be able to see when you last visited a certain blog, how many times in total you've visited it, and so forth. Even more useful would be the ability to sort the list using any one of these attributes, like...
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    What software do you do your writing on?

    I am using Microsoft Word X on Mac OS X. As some people maintain a preference for certain inks and papers (claiming it enhances their productivity or creativity), I'm wondering if any of you have developed a similar relationship with your software? What about unorthodox solutions -- text...
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    Pop Implosions

    This is one of the sharpest moves I've seen, actually. Prince's last concert tour included a copy of the CD for each concert goer, and the accountants laid it out so that this constituted a sale of the album (recorded as a sale in a record store would be) rather than somebody getting a freebie...
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    What the hell is happening here?

    I had to stop reading about halfway through. An American-controlled 'interzone" -- fuck-eeng hell.
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    Melancholy

    Don't worry, nothing to be caught. I'm just thinking out loud. The article I scanned to show that Dürer piece is good though, talks about about Benjamin's Trauerspiel (which I gather was the equivalent of his Phd thesis) wherein he explains how this engraving from 1514 "inaugurated an altogether...
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    Melancholy

    1514, etcetera. .
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    Iain Sinclair

    Holy crap ... Two sentences in to an Iain Sinclair film review and I'm already lost.
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    The Media Cool.

    Jimmy Garrison's shirt-tucked-into-shorts, socks-hiked-up ensemble is particularly resplendent. Very Nathan Barley.
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    Drugs and Music - what up with it these days?

    The future! Blasts of reductive, unstable twang -- sallow skinned and highly desperate. Lots of facial sores, hoodies, video game consoles stolen and pawned, time spent waiting around at bus stops. Guitar solos that give up and go nowhere ... And the end of the Bush administration. Dear CMT ....
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    Blueberries.

    We should have a competition ... Who can come up with the best recipe that incorporates all the superfoods. I'd probably end up trying to make some sort of curry with blueberry chutney and oat pappadams. As far as soy is concerned, there are some indications to suggest that the entities funding...
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    Iain Sinclair

    Sinclair ... I rate him. Iain Sinclair is the author who has most damaged my own ability to write, yet I love his work. Short sentences. Asserting. Themselves. On my prose.
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