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Sorry, there will be a serious post coming soon, but somebody has just forwarded me this video of the most surreal interruption ever. I feel childishly compelled to share.

Via Gizmodo

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Adv: fragmentary or unsystematic approach to sending email.
Usage: Why, for the love of God, can’t you just collate everything into one message instead of sending it piecemail?

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Seeing as we’re posting music videos, this is my friend Luke Ritchie. He’s playing at the Joogleberry on Friday night (16th May). Free entry, doors at 6pm.

He’s a bit good. I think you should all come to see him with me.

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Oh, no, wait. Facebook to drop Networks, including Brighton and Hove.
That’ll teach me to read the Argus:

(Via DanG)
UPDATE: Now changed to “Brighton Facebook network to be axed”

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Sigh. I remember the days when students were all terribly right-on, like Rik from the Young Ones.
Long-gone, if this masterpiece from the NUS is anything to judge by.

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I love the Register’s sense of humour, even when it can’t resist the descent into schoolboy snickering.
It’s most evident in the standfirsts you get on the front page. Maybe I’m easy to please, but even the advanced search page made me smile earlier:

Now if only it was just slightly smaller and would fit on here [...]

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Sorry, I know, I know, it’s about the BBC again, but I’ve just realised that there’s an increasing vogue on BBC News for bunging up a bit of video without sound, or without any commentary, detail or analysis.
Hell, even I can do that (I wouldn’t bother watching this, incidentally: it’s not that interesting)

And, while I’m [...]

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This looks worth a watch: Jesus Camp on this evening at 11.05 in the UK, on Channel 4. (thanks to Drink-soaked Trotskyite Popinjays for WAR for the heads-up)

It brings to mind Richard Dawkins’ assertion in The God Delusion that there’s no such things a Christian child, or a Muslim child, or a Jewish child, because [...]

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More in our occasional series of links that don’t get a lot of love.

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