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	<title>A Labourer at the Bitface</title>
	<link>http://devilgate.org/blog</link>
	<description>Warning: contains language from the outset</description>
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		<title>Next-Door to a Sequel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I finished Living Next-Door to the God of Love, by Justina Robson.  I enjoyed much of it, but found it kind of frustrating and annoying, in ways that were hard to define.  The main one, though, was that some things were insufficiently explained.

Now, as SF readers we are used to jumping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://devilgate.org/blog/2010/01/30/next-door-to-a-sequel/</link>
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		<title>Link: An Awesome Interpretation of Avatar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brilliant analysis of what could have been &#34;really&#34; happening in Avatar.  Don&#39;t read if you haven&#39;t seen the film.: An Awesome Interpretation of Avatar]]></description>
		<link>http://devilgate.org/blog/2010/01/05/link-an-awesome-interpretation-of-avatar/</link>
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		<title>Decade&#8217;s End</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is how we end the first decade of the twenty-first century, then: with Jools on the telly, and a netbook on my lap.  A fitting conclusion, I suppose, as the start of it was similarly low-key (I had a small kid at the time, and have two much bigger ones now); and I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://devilgate.org/blog/2009/12/31/decades-end/</link>
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		<title>Link: A Self-Referential Story</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Sentient sentences&#34;: an astonishing piece of work.: A Self-Referential Story]]></description>
		<link>http://devilgate.org/blog/2009/10/17/link-a-self-referential-story/</link>
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		<title>A quote from Amanda Palmer: asking for money for your art is not selling out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
ASKING FOR MONEY FOR YOUR ART IS NOT SELLING OUT.

selling out is when you go against your own heart, ideals and authenticity to make money.

selling out is an action, a 180 from a stated position.

i don&#8217;t consider pop stars to be sell-outs.
the lady gagas, britneys and madonnas of the world are UNABASHED about why they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://devilgate.org/blog/2009/10/14/a-quote-from-amanda-palmer-asking-for-money-for-your-art-is-not-selling-out/</link>
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		<title>Link: Do I know where hell is?  Hell is in &quot;Hello&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[God save us from crazy religious nutters.

The title is taken from &#39;Wandrin&#39; Star&#39;, by the way.: Do I know where hell is?  Hell is in &#34;Hello&#34;]]></description>
		<link>http://devilgate.org/blog/2009/10/07/do-i-know-where-hell-is-hell-is-in-hello/</link>
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		<title>Link: A report on FT.com: The man who invented exercise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amazing story.  Hard to believe that the benefits of aerobic exercise were unknown as recently as the 1940s.: A report on FT.com: The man who invented exercise]]></description>
		<link>http://devilgate.org/blog/2009/10/07/a-report-on-ft-com-the-man-who-invented-exercise/</link>
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		<title>Transitions in Real Life?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new Iain Banks book, Transition, is a science fiction novel. This is despite the fact that it is not published as by Iain M Banks. 

And I don&#8217;t mean the slightly-ambiguous, could-be-a-dream-or-somebody&#8217;s-madness-if-you-don&#8217;t-want-to-suspend-your-disbelief sort of thing you get in The Bridge Or Walking On Glass, either.  This is out-and-out SF, no  queries or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://devilgate.org/blog/2009/09/12/transitions-in-real-life/</link>
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		<title>Live Jello show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know, that sounds like something kinky.  But I just got this from the Academy mailing list (that&#8217;s &#8220;O2 Academy Brixton and O2 Academy Islington&#8221;; the former used to be called the Brixton Academy):

O2 Academy Islington:
Tue 8 Sep: Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine.
A longtime leader in the punk and alternative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://devilgate.org/blog/2009/09/03/live-jello-show/</link>
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		<title>Michael Marshall Smith speaks wisely on opinions on the internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you can&#8217;t take the time and trouble to learn how to write a coherent sentence, then why on earth do you believe people should listen to what you have to say?

Oh, yes.]]></description>
		<link>http://devilgate.org/blog/2009/09/02/michael-marshall-smith-speaks-wisely-on-opinions-on-the-internet/</link>
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