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	<title>Astrofiammante&#039;s Botheration Log &#187; Fascinated and yet repelled</title>
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	<description>“I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries – I like the hush.” Robin Ince</description>
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		<title>Daily photo: 26/07/2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Daily Photo 2011+]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[horror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[penny dreadfuls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victoriana]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Sweeney Todd</strong> (proper noun): Victorian penny dreadful character notorious for cutting up his barbershop customers and baking them into pies with the help of his partner in crime Mrs Lovett.]]></description>
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		<title>The FBI is coming!</title>
		<link>http://www.astrofiammante.net/the-fbi-is-coming-post2480/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Astrofiammante</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conspiracy theories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fascinated and yet repelled]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smoke and mirrors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[419 scams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advance fee fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox Mulder]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like the 419 scam (or advance fee fraud) email has morphed into yet another form, after this gem of imaginative creativity dropped into the inbox this morning.]]></description>
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		<title>Daily photo: 5/06/2011</title>
		<link>http://www.astrofiammante.net/daily-photo-5062011-post2233/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Astrofiammante</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Photo 2011+]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fascinated and yet repelled]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abandoned]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<strong>Dilapidated</strong> (adj): Ruined, neglected, old, in a poor state of repair.]]></description>
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		<title>A virtual worlds dilemma</title>
		<link>http://www.astrofiammante.net/a-virtual-worlds-dilemma-post1347/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Astrofiammante</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Serendipitous]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steampunk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blue Mars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caledon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inworldz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Second Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Something like 18 months ago, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rand0m/sets/72157618494447282/with/3547348376/" target="_blank" title="Rand0m on Flickr: Virtual Worlds">a certain Mr Random Merryman</a> and myself were happy residents of the virtual world Second Life where we spent a large part of our time as part of the the neo-Victorian roleplaying community of Caledon. ]]></description>
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		<title>The risk-taker who outlived an icon</title>
		<link>http://www.astrofiammante.net/the-risk-taker-who-outlived-an-icon-post72/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Astrofiammante</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[But is it Art?]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Speechless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Marsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Man on Wire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phillipe Petit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wire walking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Trade Centre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the subject of crazy, illegal art projects.. you'd have to go some way to beat the one detailed in the new documentary <em>Man on Wire</em>. But this film reveals a pathos completely unintended by the artist at the point of creation.]]></description>
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		<title>When Disney disappoints</title>
		<link>http://www.astrofiammante.net/when-disney-disappoints-post60/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Astrofiammante</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fascinated and yet repelled]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Rakoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innoventions Dream Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monsanto House of the Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Treehugger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This video in the <em>New York Times</em> looks at Disney's new Innoventions Dream Home attraction - and finds it sorely wanting.]]></description>
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		<title>Looking and yet not looking</title>
		<link>http://www.astrofiammante.net/looking-and-yet-not-looking-post39/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 14:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Astrofiammante</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Yass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Didier Pasquette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glasgow international festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Wire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vertigo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a card-carrying member of the dislike-of-heights committee, I find the idea of this deeply compelling and repellent in equal measures. It's a kind of vertigo porn.]]></description>
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