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		<title>Chuka Umunna on slavery</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/03/chuka-umunna-on-slavery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuka Umunna in The Voice on the question of a UK government apology for slave&#160;trade: African slavery and colonialism are not simply remnants of the past – they helped lay the foundations for the successful modern Britain of today. The effects of slavery are still felt in our communities - many cite the matriarchal nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Was Right</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/02/bush-was-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This would be a good day to quote and laugh at some of the many racist articles written over the past few years that warned us not to &#8220;inflame the Arab Street&#8221;, that rhetorical mass of undifferentiated savages that &#8220;we&#8221; created by interfering in the Noble Civilizations of the region with our Imperialist Adventures, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assimilation</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/assimilation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5041</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to my most recent extended comment on That Bigoted Woman, I note The Mirror reports that Gillian Duffy, who wondered during the UK General Election where all those Eastern Europeans are flocking from, has come out in support of David Miliband for the position leader of the Labour Party. David Miliband is the offspring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Aimless Hostility&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/aimless-hostility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/aimless-hostility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, John Gray reviewed A C Grayling&#8217;s latest book Ideas that Matter: The Concepts that Shape the 21st Century. To my surprise, someone I know linked to the review approvingly. I was surprised because the review is tosh: hysterical, pompous, and so self-fiskingly stupid that it&#8217;s not even necessary to read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You&#8217;re entitled to your own opinions. You&#8217;re not entitled to your own facts.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/own-opinions-yes-own-facts-no/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/own-opinions-yes-own-facts-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4858</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[via Anthony]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfortunate headlines of the day</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/02/unfortunate-headlines-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC News Website has changed its original&#160;headline: SARAH PALIN LASHES OBAMA AT FIRST TEA PARTY&#160;CONVENTION &#8212;bring your houseboy, and let&#8217;s party like it&#8217;s 1779!&#8212;to this&#160;one: SARAH PALIN CONDEMNS OBAMA AT FIRST TEA PARTY&#160;CONVENTION but, Liz Jones&#8217;s latest wibble&#8212;search for it if you like; I&#8217;m not going to link to it&#8212;retains its&#160;banner: HONOUR KILLINGS? WHAT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Single Transferable Mope</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/10/single-transferable-mope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/10/single-transferable-mope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I picked up this Prospect blogpost, via the magazine&#8217;s twitter feed, where it carried a headline that falls into the Kamm/Rentoul category of &#8220;Great Historical Questions To Which The Answer Is&#160;&#8216;No&#8217;.&#8221;: &#8220;Is Afghanistan Obama&#8217;s&#160;Vietnam?&#8221; The article itself doesn&#8217;t bother with the question mark, but is a classic of the &#8220;another Vietnam&#8221; genre, once so popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evans, Dear Boy, Evans</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/10/evans-dear-boy-evans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/10/evans-dear-boy-evans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 09:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Paulie&#8217;s &#8220;Shared Items&#8221; feed at Never Trust a Hippy, I read on the Democratic Society Blog one of the best &#8220;Did Magna Carta die in vain?&#8221; comments ever [see foot of the post I link to] and, on Tory Troll, an account of yet another FAIL by frontline&#160;interviewers. Here&#8217;s a tip for the meedja [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Smell Of Home</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/07/the-smell-of-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/07/the-smell-of-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:17:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4625</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been known to be uncomplimentary here about Tamworth, the town where I grew up. Back in the 80s, an Australian barman once told a friend of mine that, travelling around England, it was the place where he had been beaten up most frequently for being Australian. And he was&#160;white. Thanks to Paulie for drawing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making The Cars Run On Time</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/07/making-the-cars-run-on-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/07/making-the-cars-run-on-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One chief, said yesterday that he preferred totalitarian regimes to democracies and praised Adolf Hitler for his ability to &#8220;get things&#160;done&#8221;. Mr Ecclestone endorsed the concept of a government based on&#160;tyranny. &#8220;Politicians are too worried about elections,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We did a terrible thing when we supported the idea of getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirit Of Lord Rothermere Lives On</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/the-spirit-of-lord-rothermere-lives-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/the-spirit-of-lord-rothermere-lives-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every single &#8220;serious&#8221; newspaper in the UK led with Iran this morning. But The&#160;Daily&#160;Mail devoted its entire front page to an attack on Gordon Brown and the Iraq Inquiry, and The&#160;Express (alongside a photograph of a Euro Lotto winner cradling a giant cabbage) to asylum seekers, the largest group of whom before the war came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Яolcats</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/02/%d1%8folcats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/02/%d1%8folcats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Ben Goldacre, &#8220;English Translations of Eastern Bloc&#160;Lolcats&#8221;.]]></description>
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		<title>Golly!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/02/golly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/02/golly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Jumpers For Goalposts</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/jumpers-for-goalposts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3984</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[UPDATE: For the hordes arriving here after searching for the comedy catchphrase &#8220;Jumpers for goalposts&#8221;, you&#8217;d probably be better off reading this.] Yesterday afternoon, I interrupted some desk-bound consulting work that, even if I weren&#8217;t prevented by an NDA from doing so, would put you to sleep instantly if I told you about it, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Moments In Music Pedagogy, No.&#160;2&#160;980</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/great-moments-in-musical-pedagogy-no2980/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/great-moments-in-musical-pedagogy-no2980/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3929</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The guitarist in the band I&#8217;m in has a diploma in (popular) music performance and his music theory is pretty good&#8212;certainly better than mine&#8212;but he was never taught any music history and he&#8217;s only just turned twenty-one. So when, during a discussion about the scores the sax player had written1 for himself and the trumpet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ultimate Downfall Parody</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/the-ultimate-downfall-parody/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/11/the-ultimate-downfall-parody/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Paulie and thanks to qwghlm comes YouTube footage of Hitler discovering that his membership of the British&#160;National&#160;Party has been leaked. If you understand German then watch with the sound turned&#160;down.]]></description>
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		<title>Aural Sachs</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/10/aural-sachs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/10/aural-sachs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Sachs has just been on BBC&#160;Radio&#160;4, walking around London Zoo with Tim Samuels and reminiscing about how he used to sneak in there during World&#160;War&#160;II. Sachs was born to a Jewish family in Berlin in 1930. He and they fled Germany in 1938. He witnessed Kristallnacht&#8212;&#8220;Goodness, those Stormtroopers are going to get into trouble [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say What You Like About Joseph Stalin, At Least He Made The Underground Trains Run On Time</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/say-what-you-like-about-stalin-at-least-he-made-the-underground-trains-run-on-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/say-what-you-like-about-stalin-at-least-he-made-the-underground-trains-run-on-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was quiet here last week because I had a lot of things on&#8212;to the extent that I had to stop off at the 24-hour Tesco superstore in the small hours of Saturday on the way back from singing at a gig to do my week&#8217;s shopping. I&#8217;ve read some extreme tales about the goings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Let Them Eat Smoke!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/let-them-eat-smoke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/let-them-eat-smoke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norm asks two questions: People on the wrong end of social and economic inequalities don&#8217;t just experience health disadvantages from smoking, but disadvantages across the board - in every area of health, in life expectancy, in the pattern of life chances in general. Shall we impose compulsory legal norms about diet, about exercise, about whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Up</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/growing-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/growing-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 09:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3193</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[UPDATE: Edited to use the version of the body text that actually makes some sense with the originally posted&#160;title.] I&#8217;m not that old, so I&#8217;m often puzzled by people who make historical pronouncements in ignorance of recent, relevant history, sometimes history that happened within their lifetimes but not mine. Of course, as Catholic dogma would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Future News: Headlines Of 2108</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/future-news-headlines-of-2108/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/future-news-headlines-of-2108/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NASA ASTRONAUTS ARRIVE ON CENTAURI IV AND ENCOUNTER POPULATION OF HUMANOIDS SO PRIMITIVE THAT THEY STILL HAVE FACEBOOK&#160;ACCOUNTS. PANEL OF HISTORIANS VOTES ON MOST HATED FIGURES OF 21ST CENTURY. SADDAM HUSSEIN, CLONED HITLER, HEATHER MILLS-MCCARTNEY TOP&#160;POLL. HUMPHREY LYTTELTON FORCED TO STAND DOWN AS PRESENTER OF I&#8217;M SORRY I HAVEN&#8217;T A CLUE AFTER EXPOSURE TO SUNLIGHT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maggie Out</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/maggie-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/maggie-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m on the subject of Tories, this evening, I finally got round to watching the second part of the very good Michael Portillo documentary about Thatcher and the Conservative Party (The Lady&#8217;s Not For Spurning) that I downloaded from the BBC&#8217;s excellent iPlayer site. I put it off for so long because I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Published Writer</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/published-writer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/published-writer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3038</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even the Nazis didn&#8217;t put artists out of&#160;work. &#8211; Andrew Keen, author of The Cult Of The Amateur: How Today&#8217;s Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy, talking about the Internet, one minute into this&#160;interview The advantage of the Internet, as Keen reveals in the title of his book, is that, when people [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On The Preservation Of Source Texts</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/on-the-preservation-of-source-texts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/on-the-preservation-of-source-texts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning, I walked out of the building that my flat is in to find that the telephone box immediately outside it had been marked with words along the lines&#160;of: HEY NIGGAZ KKK 4&#160;ME in six-inch high black letters. Today I was going to write a post about it&#8212;not an &#8220;end of civilization as we [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Prolific</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/05/prolific/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/05/prolific/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2007 21:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks a commenter at Maximum Bob, I discovered that yesterday was Talk Like Bob Dylan Day and, thanks to a video on the Talk Like Bob Dylan Day site, I discovered that Bob Dylan wrote every single popular song of the last forty&#160;years.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Racism is still very, very vibrant&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/03/racism-is-still-very-very-vibrant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/03/racism-is-still-very-very-vibrant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I mentioned celebrity &#8220;people of colour&#8221; talking &#8220;po-faced rubbish&#8221; about slavery. I don&#8217;t have the time to wade through it now, but please do skim the drivelling of &#8220;Ms Dynamite&#8221; on the subject over at the BBC News Website. I&#8217;m proud to say I didn&#8217;t pay the BBC to pay this woman to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reach For The Pie</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/02/reach-for-the-pie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/02/reach-for-the-pie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2754</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting here eating a microwaved vegetable biryani in front of my computer, having returned from a Ginsters-fuelled morning shoot of a band at Shoreham Airport, a cute, art deco building surrounded by dodgy Italian mopeds of the sky&#8212;not just propellor aircraft that look like they are powered by elastic bands, but helicopters that were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retroactive</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/02/retroactive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/02/retroactive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in Dixons Currys.digital, buying a new computer keyboard. What sounds like a competent cover version of Starship&#8217;s We Built This City is playing. For a moment I wonder if it&#8217;s the start of one of those godawful trance retreads of 80s guitar hits. You know the sort of thing: Owner Of A Lonely Heart/Max [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Moved My Deep Freeze?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/who-moved-my-deep-freeze/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/who-moved-my-deep-freeze/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, via Photo Matt, I discovered a phrase that I wish I had known about years&#160;ago: &#8220;The adage, &#8220;Why should I care what color the bikeshed is?&#8221;, means: just because you are capable of building a bikeshed does not mean you should stop others from building one just because you do not like the color [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making A Connection</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/making-a-connection/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/making-a-connection/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2679</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to The Times: [DAVID] IRVING ATTACKS AUSTRIA AFTER&#160;BAN Surely he knows enough history to have arranged for some of his far-Right friends inside the country to organise a peaceful takeover&#160;instead?]]></description>
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