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Smile of a stranger
Book in hand I open the front door and the sun burns a smile on to my face. I glance to the left as I lock the door and catch the eye of a guy walking down the terrace path....
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Total protonic reversal
"Aw shit I really should've gone before we left that kip" said Jay. "I'm gonna burst a pipe". "Yeah nuthin's open, no taxis, and no public jacks for miles" said Sean "No wonder this city smells of piss". "Next lane?"...
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Special
There really is something special about The Specials. To me at least. There's no sound more nostalgic. Every time I hear them I'm brought right back there in a way no other music does. On the edge of your teens,...
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Doctors can now feel what you feel!
You know all those whacky predictions you make as a kid? I can clearly remember three. 1. Life-like 3D first person games There was one game I used to always play in the arcades; Kung-fu, a two dimensional platform game,...
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A very short story
"He lifted her bloodied head - eyes gouged out, bedroom door ajar, then looked inside, prised the knife from her hand and repeated the act." I thought I'd have a go at a twitter sized (140 characters) short story during...
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Schizophrenic
I saw this logo today and I laughed out loud despite the fact that it perfectly represented one of my pet peeves. It's a clever logo, yet at the same time I couldn't believe a company were using a mark...
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The Blue Light
I can remember when I was much younger, entirely dismissing trad as fiddledy dee nonsense. How wrong I was, I'd like to go back and give myself a clip around the ear. I was up in the Blue light last...
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Moral crusaders
The missus has been invited on to Seoige today to debate with David Quinn of The Iona Institute about FertilityCare, a fertility clinic in Galway, who only treat married couples. Only in Ireland can you get away with religious morals...
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Homeboy
It wasn’t the first time I’d woken up not knowing where I was, but it was the first time I’d woken up not knowing where I was! I’d experienced this odd phenomenon before where I’d wake up and have no...
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Uncanny valley
There's this theory in robotics called the Uncanny Valley. It's now well acknowledged in computer graphics too. It's when a human character looks and moves almost realistically lifelike yet not quite perfect. And this somethings-not-quite-right can be a bit jarring...
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