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		<title>RIP Tom Hibbert</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the rare opportunity last Sunday to read the whole of the newspaper (it wasn&#8217;t even the Sunday newspaper, but the Guardian from the previous day). As happens 99% of the time, hardly anything in the paper was much of a surprise. And then I got to the back and there was a large [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtcat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=241932&amp;post=928&amp;subd=thoughtcat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My memories of reading and books as a child</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently befriended a lovely woman who tweets under the name of @AliB68, following an event we both attended in London a few months ago involving Russell Hoban, of whom we&#8217;ve both long been big fans. Ali runs a blog about children&#8217;s books called Fantastic Reads on which she&#8217;d written about Hoban&#8217;s classic The Mouse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtcat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=241932&amp;post=922&amp;subd=thoughtcat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some journalists &#8220;a bit thick&#8221;, according to reports</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick study by Thoughtcat over a cup of tea and a biscuit has found that some journalists and news organisations are &#8220;a bit stupid&#8221;. The BBC was forced into a humiliating climbdown today after finding that &#8220;a study&#8221; by some dodgy psychometric testing firm called AptiQuant, which found users of Internet Explorer were by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtcat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=241932&amp;post=911&amp;subd=thoughtcat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughtcat.com &#8211; new Drupal site</title>
		<link>http://thoughtcat.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/thoughtcat-com-new-drupal-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The original Thoughtcat site at thoughtcat.com has been dormant for quite a while (even more so than this blog in fact). I&#8217;ve started the process of resurrecting it today, as I&#8217;ve lately got into Drupal for various reasons and it feels appropriate to use that platform for my stuff rather than this one now. To [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtcat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=241932&amp;post=905&amp;subd=thoughtcat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cats say Yes to AV!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 06:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the best explanation of AV I&#8217;ve seen so far. I&#8217;ll be voting for a fairer (and furrier) voting system on 5th May and I hope all my readers will too. Cheers to Dave Awl for the link.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtcat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=241932&amp;post=906&amp;subd=thoughtcat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Concert for George: A review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the occasion today of what would have been George Harrison&#8217;s 68th birthday, I&#8217;m posting the original text of my review of The Concert for George, the 2002 all-star tribute show that I was lucky enough to attend, which was first posted on the old Thoughtcat blog on 3 December 2003. (No, I can&#8217;t believe [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtcat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=241932&amp;post=901&amp;subd=thoughtcat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kitchen gig update update</title>
		<link>http://thoughtcat.wordpress.com/2011/01/08/kitchen-gig-update-portishead-sweet-video-guitar-solo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thoughtcat.wordpress.com/?p=883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m well chuffed to see that one of the guitar solo videos I recorded last summer &#8211; Me playing along to Portishead&#8217;s It Could Be Sweet &#8211; has now had over 500 views. Sure, I mean this isn&#8217;t exactly up there with other YouTube hits we have known, but better/slap/face/fish etc. Above is a reprise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtcat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=241932&amp;post=883&amp;subd=thoughtcat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Thoughtcat blog &#8211; 2010 in review</title>
		<link>http://thoughtcat.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/the-thoughtcat-blog-2010-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 09:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following arrived in my inbox this morning from WordPress, with an option to post the report to the blog. My comments are inline in italics :) The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here&#8217;s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtcat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=241932&amp;post=877&amp;subd=thoughtcat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry Jimmy  but Wikipedia really isn&#8217;t that important</title>
		<link>http://thoughtcat.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/sorry-jimmy-but-wikipedia-really-isnt-that-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I smiled when I saw this image posted on YakYak the other day, from some Tumblr blog. The Jimmy Wales appeal for donations to keep Wikipedia going, consisting of a large photo of him looming over every Wiki page, is intrusive and frankly rather ridiculous. I like Wikipedia and I have edited a few pages [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtcat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=241932&amp;post=871&amp;subd=thoughtcat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Doublespeak, or &#8220;you can&#8217;t choose who quotes you&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thoughtcat.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/doublespeak-or-you-cant-choose-who-quotes-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a moderator of the The Kraken, the original fan forum for brilliant author Russell Hoban, and the webmaster for the SA4QE Hoban fan event site, I get quite a lot of alerts to mentions of Hoban and his works on the web. The latest looked promising &#8211; an article mentioning one of my own [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtcat.wordpress.com&amp;blog=241932&amp;post=869&amp;subd=thoughtcat&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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