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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

2012 Olympic logo: "crumpled crisp packet swastika"

Marie says it best.

I nearly spluttered soup at the screen reading that remark.

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Counago & Spaves

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The Medium is Not Enough TV blog

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One Man Blogs

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Marie Phillips

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wongaBlog

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17 SECONDS

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Shakesville

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Songs About Places

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Pulpmovies (was Savage Popcorn)

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Shuggy's Blog

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Breaking More Waves
17 Seconds (New Site)
17 Seconds
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John Peel Every Day
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Rufus Wainwright

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Internet Movie Database
Spaced
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TV Today (The Stage) - inactive site (archive only)
What's On Stage - UK Theatre

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Guardian Politics Blog
Socialism or Your Money Back - the SPGB blog

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Bad Science (Ben Goldacre)
British Association of American Studies
Guggenheim Museum

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Guest post 2 - Beauty of the Scottish Landscape"
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Guest post 5 - "Engineers in the Spirit world"
Guest post 6 - "A Favourite Picture"
Guest post 7 - "Best reason to go to the Barber Insitute"
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Guest post 10 - "On the Topic of Long Dresses"
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A Journal of Impossible Things (Doctor Who blog)
Blogtionary
Bring me sunshine
Crockett and Powell Bookshop
Flew in From Miami Beach BOAC
Life is all Cobblers
Mixed Up Files of Catherine
Reel Fanatic
Rev/Views
The Big Blowdown
Wild and Wandering Thoughts of a frizz-laden loon

Old blog list - blogs without feeds or lost in blogger

"Theatre is life, film is art, TV is furniture" (Anna)
A Cloud In Trousers
Cobblers (JJ)
Crockatt & Powell - bookshop of note
Eine Kleine Nichtmusik (EineKleineRob's Blog)
Indigenous Stranger (James)
Informationally Overloaded: One Man Blogs (Gordon)
Inveresk Street Ingrate
Joe In Vegas
Kerron Cross
Mars Hill (Paul Burgin)
MaximumBob
Moo
Munros in the key of George
Never Trust a Hippy
Normblog
OyeBilly!
Pandagon
Pulp Movies: Savage Popcorn
Random Burblings (Alan Sharp)
Reproductively Challenged
Saving the World (Matt Crowder)
Shakesville
Shuggy
Skuds
Stu_n
Swiss Toni - now at swisslet
Tabula Rasa
The Gaping Silence
The Medium is Not Enough (Rob Buckley)
The Poor Mouth (jams o donnell)
The Woman Who Talked Too Much (Marie's Open Blog)
Troubled Diva
Wild and Wandering Thoughts of a frizz-laden loon (Rosby)
Wongablog

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