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  • Buying Music

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    I have a serious aversion to buying music; I’ll readily admit that I get the vast majority of my music from the Internet (without paying, obviously). Over the past few weeks, that’s changed considerably. Part of the reason is that I’m at home and it takes longer to download high quality mp3s. Also, with the…

  • Questions

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    Here are my responses to a short Mars Society interview I had to do. Excuse the cheesiness, but these things you have to do… Name and Chapter, other bio info Adrian Hon, UK Chapter Steering Committee member, editor of New Mars. How long have you been a member of The Mars Society? Since it was…

  • Twisted words

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    One of the things that I despise the most in this world is when someone twists your words. Glenn Reynolds recently said in a column that Sir Martin Rees, by saying: “If they were governmental or international (expeditions), Antarctic-style restraint might be feasible. On the other hand, if the explorers were privately funded adventurers of…

  • Proactive Interference

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    One of the running jokes while I was in San Diego was the that professor who was nominally overseeing all the research in the lab was considerably absentminded. Never mind the times when he would phone up the lab to ask us what the time was because his watch wasn’t working, or when he’d ask…

  • Phone Booth

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    After a bevy of worrying rumours, it seems that the suspense/thriller ‘Phone Booth’ will turn out well. Not only that, but it stars Kiefer Sutherland as a sniper! Any movie with Jack Bauer in it is bound to be good, in my book.

  • Books

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    Books bought recently: Dead Air, Fast Food Nation, Coraline, The New York Trilogy, The Feeling Of What Happens, Synaesthesia: The Strangest Thing and The Pursuit Of Oblivion (I wasn’t going to find the links for all of those, but then I had a change of heart).

  • The Mission

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    Back in the 80s, there was a science fiction series directed by Stephen Spielberg called Amazing Stores. Aside from its intro sequence, which was rather impressive for that time, most episodes were pretty uninspiring and dismal. There was one episode that it seems everyone (including me) remembers: The Mission. ‘The Mission’ was by all accounts…

  • AFC Wimbledon

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    Here’s a great story about AFC Wimbledon, a wholly fan-owned club that was organised in response to plans by the Wimbledon FC management to move to Milton Keynes. It’s heartening to see AFC Wimbledon successfully demonstrating that there is an alternative to current modes of club management.

  • Dream Time

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    I just saw an advert on the Sky Chinese Channel (PCNE) for a show that can only be described as the Chinese version of ‘Dream Team’. For those of you who don’t know about it (i.e. 99% of you), it’s a football soap opera on Sky One. I hear that football is becoming a big…

  • Stay the fuck away from the Burrito

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    Stay the fuck away from the Burrito – a highly amusing review of US MREs (Meals Ready to Eat).