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  • Where the grass is green

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    Chuck Klosterman reviews Chinese Democracy: Reviewing Chinese Democracy is not like reviewing music. It’s more like reviewing a unicorn. It’s like if Jeff Lynne tried to make Out Of The Blue sound more like Fun House, except with jazz drumming and a girl singer from Motown. Somewhere in Los Angles, there’s gotta be 400 hours…

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  • Two links

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    I’m becoming a fan of Charlie Brooker – he wrote Dead Set, the ‘Big Brother house is the only refuge from the living dead’ TV series, and works himself into indignant hilarity every week in the Guardian: How annoying is it? Put it this way: James Blunt is also on the list, and he’s the…

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  • Clickity clack, proper typing’s back

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    Apple’s Extended II Keyboards and their ‘proper’ clicking keystrokes are back, thanks to Griffin’s iMate ABD – USB converter.  Coveted by the likes of Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber, they feel very different to mushy, modern keyboards. Think more electric typewriter. Good examples go on Ebay for big money, but I got one of the coveted…

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  • Simple guide to burning an .AVI to DVD in OS X 10.4.11

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    Here’s how I burn .avi files to DVD. For a guide to why this guide exists, scroll down. You can click the pictures to make them bigger. 1. Get ffmpegx. It’s free and marvelous. Install and follow all the instructions. 2. Open your .avi and set it to convert to .mov. I accepted all the…

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  • Revelations

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    Twitter: Woah – you mean email can help you do stuff? Not just rain down tasks you’ll never do like dirt on your coffin? I DID NOT know that!

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  • Obamarama

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    I’m glad the right guy won. Sarah Palin was starting to freak me out. It’s only a few short hops from electing officials who can’t string a sentence together to this: So. Nice one America. See also: Jason Kottke’s election map run through. I like the New York Times, the BBC’s and FiveThirtyEight’s has a…

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  • Link: How to get a girl

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  • Jabba the Katz

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    Had a win in the pub quiz last night – here’s a Katz cartoon. Katz backstory and Flickr set.

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  • Huh? What the…?

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    You fell asleep watching a DVD. We’ve all been there. Pretty good selection, with Arrested Development and Shaun Of The Dead.

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  • Summer Heights High

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    In celebration of me figuring out how to embed small youtube videos (it’s actually really easy, how I LAUGHED!), here’s a clip from Summer Heights High. It’s created by Aussie Chris Lilley, the guy behind We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian Of The Year. Enjoy.

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