After the endless standing in line, with its discreet pushing and shoving, the shuffle on board and the scramble for a seat and space in the overhead locker, the interminable and incomprehensible safety briefing, clearer by far in recorded Italian than live “English”, comes the moment when the capta...

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... but if you're looking for some cutting-edge, ground-breaking, genre-bending, challenging music, keep away from these two:

Los Super Seven’s Heard it on the X is just rollicking good border music. Too short, which indicates how used I’ve become to bloated CDs. Time was I would have been more...

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It’s enough to give headline writers the world over a bad name (if they didn't already have one). Canadian Men An Endangered Species screams a post over on Science a gogo. But hold on. The story relates that the birth ratio (expressed, wouldn’t you know it, as the percentage of male births) of...

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In a fit of communitarian sharing, I not only Flickred my own childish autograph book, I also created a Pool to sustain it (not that it has, but give it time). And I confessed that I had mostly forgotten who on earth The Honeycombs were. To my rescue rides Neddie, from whose email I quote (wit...

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Malaysians have been told to “pray for rain”, according to the BBC. That’ll get rid of the smog caused by illegal fires in nearby Indonesia. and much more sensible than actually dealing with the issue, which might be considered unfraternal, not to say interfering.

Then again, Paul Ford has thi...

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