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		<title>Beautiful Spam IV: &#8220;Your hideous wrinkles&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alistair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rhizome mailing list&#8217;s utter failure to filter spam is the gift that keeps on giving. There&#8217;s so much to love, so many accidentally inspiring turns of phrase, in this latest unsolicited missive to nobody in particular. For a moment I&#8217;d like you to try imagining exactly how facially ravaged a person would have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoxoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18229207&amp;post=502&amp;subd=adoxoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flattery will get you nowhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alistair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s perverse, but occasionally I enjoy perusing all the spam comments that get caught in the filter. I also like the fact that the previous sentence sounds quite repulsive, akin to a sentence such as: &#8220;occasionally I like to eat all the dead insects stuck in the radiator of my car.&#8221; Nowadays, many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoxoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18229207&amp;post=487&amp;subd=adoxoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the NHS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alistair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[British bureaucracy: it came, it saw, it founded an empire, it ripped off other people&#8217;s stuff and it made Europeans, Asians and Africans alike fill in stupid bloody forms. Not all of our bureaucracy is horrible though. Some of it is magnificent, even, and the National Health Service is one of those magnificent bureaucracies. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoxoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18229207&amp;post=479&amp;subd=adoxoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese onomatopoeia II: Please enjoy Nihon style pedantry update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 10:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alistair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ongoing cogitation with regard to the Japanese language compels me to point out that my previous post on the subject of Japanese onomatopoeia was lacking some nuance. As I pointed out previously, not only does Japanese have words imitative of actions or the sounds that various entities make when engaged in those actions (such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoxoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18229207&amp;post=476&amp;subd=adoxoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Development of Psychic Powers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alistair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;THIS IS WHERE YOU BEGIN TO ESTABLISH A NEW AND SUPREMELY IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNCONSCIOUS LEVELS OF YOUR PSYCHE.&#8221; I wouldn&#8217;t go so far as to say I have a library- I wish, I wish, I wish I had the money or the space for a proper library of defiantly non-digital knowledge in printed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoxoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18229207&amp;post=465&amp;subd=adoxoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011: The year of sci-fi spam, Assyrian tearaways and sexy robot talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alistair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the incredibly garish, possibly seizure-inducing end of year report sent out to bloggers by WordPress, I know that the most viewed posts since the blog started a year ago are: 1 Beautiful Spam II 2 Fμckbird and Jim: James Joyce&#8217;s letters to Nora Barnacle 3 The Hills are Alive with the Sound of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoxoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18229207&amp;post=462&amp;subd=adoxoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Spam III: &#8220;This is the carrot on a stick.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alistair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nine months on from my previous forays into spam land, I&#8217;m still finding it far too hilarious that New York&#8217;s hub of aggressively New Yorkish, new media, too-cool-for-school digitalism Rhizome still has a feed that&#8217;s absolutely riddled with spam, like some sad old BBS from the Nineties. I hardly ever see spam anywhere else but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoxoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18229207&amp;post=444&amp;subd=adoxoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Play him off, Keyboard Cat&#8230; Forever. And ever. AND EVER.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alistair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you get if you combine Eraserhead, Bagpuss and Keyboard Cat? This: &#8230; in which an unfortunate hamster is crammed into a sock and condemned to play the drum part of a song that will never end, a tormented rodent playing Sisyphus as if he were Ringo Starr. A cat&#8217;s thousand yard stare conveys [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoxoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18229207&amp;post=429&amp;subd=adoxoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The vanity of evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 10:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alistair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was looking at a book about the world&#8217;s most photographed people. The book was published by the National Portrait Gallery in London and is called &#8216;Knit Twenty Outfits for Pet Monkeys at Home&#8217;- no, not really. Obviously it&#8217;s called &#8216;The World&#8217;s Most Photographed&#8217;. It&#8217;s by Robin Muir. Anyway, the inevitable chapter about Adolf [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoxoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18229207&amp;post=411&amp;subd=adoxoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nihon brainwash</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:30:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alistair</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More mutated, hypertrophied idiot-savantism from the Galapagos of the advertising world, Japan (see also Kawaii terror). The examples below have an added level of mind mangling daftness because OCD Youtube mentalists have taken it upon themselves to collate (or curate?) them in an almost anthropological manner. First of all, backwards time travel in terms of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adoxoblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=18229207&amp;post=396&amp;subd=adoxoblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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