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		<title>Short memory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know there&#8217;s other, bigger, more topical things going on right now, but I couldn&#8217;t let this little gem of self-aggrandising historical revisionism from Clare Short slip past. Speaking to the Guardian about how Gordon Brown will be remembered, she says:
On Iraq he was marginalised by Blair for most of the time, but if he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flashboy.org/blog/?p=464</link>
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		<title>Indecision time</title>
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So here we are. Bloody again.
I&#8217;ve voted in every single election I&#8217;ve been able to in my adult life; every local, mayoral, national and European election for over a decade. Of those many, many elections, I think I&#8217;ve been able to cast a willing and meaningful vote &#8211; voting for someone I truly wanted to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flashboy.org/blog/?p=446</link>
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		<title>Ada Lovelace Day: Mary Ward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My post for Ada Lovelace Day 2010. I&#8217;m late with this, so it&#8217;s quick and rough and not terribly nicely written. But hey ho:
It&#8217;s a shame that it&#8217;s the manner of her death that Mary Ward is best remembered for, because she led a pretty remarkable life at a time when women, for all practical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flashboy.org/blog/?p=443</link>
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		<title>The Mad Meneriser</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another bloody &#8220;turn your avatar into a cartoon&#8221; thing went round Twitter today; I ignored it, because, you know, I&#8217;m above all that. Except obviously I&#8217;m not, because it was actually a rather jolly promo for the third series of Mad Men &#8211; the addictive, oh-so-stylised drama of quiet desperation in capitalism. It let you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flashboy.org/blog/?p=429</link>
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		<title>Future of Journalism (part one of god knows how many)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to write a coherent post about various interconnected subjects involving journalism, especially print journalism &#8211; most notably, the thorny tangle of connected issues surrounding whether professional journalism has a future, what exactly that future might look like, and jesus just how fucking grumpy is David Simon?
Unfortunately, I&#8217;m a slow, long-winded writer, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flashboy.org/blog/?p=419</link>
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		<title>Stop&#8230; Carry on.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right, so &#8211; Spotify (the wonderful &#8220;universal jukebox&#8221; music streaming service, in case you didn&#8217;t know) recently pointed out on their blog that you could manually link to a specific moment in a song. Naturally, because I&#8217;m awkward like that, I decided the best use of this was to link to the pauses in songs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flashboy.org/blog/?p=388</link>
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		<title>I done a podcast!</title>
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Admittedly, not my own podcast &#8211; but this week, I was chuffed to be asked to do the twofootedtackle football podcast, as hosted by Chris Nee and Gary Andrews (very fine chaps both). Granted, I felt somewhat out of my depth as Chris and Gary discussed the finer points of the Dutch Eredivisie (to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flashboy.org/blog/?p=383</link>
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		<title>Twitter versus the Telegraph: you can&#8217;t stop the lulz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A fair amount of amusement online today, as the Telegraph decided to embed a Twitterfall in the sidebar of their dedicated page for Wednesday&#8217;s budget, showing tweets with budget-related keywords. Of course, it was only a matter of time before someone tested out what they could get onto the page&#8230; in this case, it seems [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flashboy.org/blog/?p=369</link>
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		<title>The seismologist who wasn&#8217;t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, all over the news today were reports like this:
An Italian scientist who predicted a serious earthquake in central Italy but was dismissed as a scaremonger said: &#8220;The authorities have these deaths on their conscience.&#8221;
Seismologist Gioacchino Giuliani had warned &#8220;a big one&#8221; was on the way and even toured the region in a van with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flashboy.org/blog/?p=362</link>
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		<title>Wired UK: some first thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got my sleek, pleasingly-textured and slightly oddly-smelling copy of the new Wired UK through the post yesterday. This made me happy, because&#8230; well, we&#8217;ve got our own Wired again. It&#8217;s a national pride thing, right? Now we can all collectively exorcise Danny O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s traumatic memories of the previous one. And, for the first time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.flashboy.org/blog/?p=344</link>
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