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	<description>&#34;Monkey was by nature too restless, Pigsy too coarse and Sandy too simple to need a second bidding.&#34;</description>
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		<title>So, speculative fiction writers, go ahead and speculate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Steampunk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terry Pratchett Prize]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The inestimable Sir Terence Pratchett of Ankh-Morpork is spearheading a new competition to find an unpublished writer of speculative fiction and to lead them towards all the glorious riches that go with publication - literally in this case, since an advance of £20,000 is part of the deal.]]></description>
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		<title>It might be art &#8211; part two</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[But is it Art?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morally Bankrupt Godless Liberalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second part of a post covering the BHA's conference on humanism, philosophy and the arts held at Conway Hall last weekend.]]></description>
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		<title>It might be art, but what does that mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[But is it Art?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Morally Bankrupt Godless Liberalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ken Worpole]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Norman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[And so to London last weekend for the latest in the <a href="http://www.humanism.org.uk" target="_blank" title="British Humanist Association website">British Humanist Association's</a> series of study days, events that are always well worth attending and which should definitely figure on your future list of entertainment and diversion.]]></description>
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		<title>The first rule of Apostrophe Club&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Queen's English]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apostrophes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Mitchell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grammar police]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA["I support the correctly used apostrophe with that kind of fierce emotional investment in an irrelevance that most people reserve for football" - David Mitchell.]]></description>
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		<title>Not so much a portrait of the artist, more the artist herself</title>
		<link>http://www.astrofiammante.net/not-so-much-a-portrait-of-the-artist-more-the-artist-post914/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Astrofiammante</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[But is it Art?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marina Abramovic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From video-sharing site Vimeo, here are a series of webcam captures of performance artist Marina Abramovic's exhibition <em>The Artist is Present</em> which was performed for three months between March and May 2010 at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.]]></description>
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		<title>The right to trial by battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Astrofiammante</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weird and wonderful]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Famous court cases]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today's Wikipedia Article of the Day is a little gem.]]></description>
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		<title>A Literary Reflection upon the Habits and Disposition of Certain Felines</title>
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		<comments>http://www.astrofiammante.net/a-literary-reflection-upon-the-habits-and-disposition-of-certain-felines-post871/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Astrofiammante</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Going underground]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steampunk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Echo Bazaar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here in the headquarters of the Constitutional Monarchy of Koningen der Nacht we are very much enjoying a new web-based game called <a href="http://echobazaar.failbettergames.com/">Echo Bazaar</a>, set in a version of London that has fallen through the earth and into Hell.]]></description>
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		<title>When Basement Cat comes to call&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.astrofiammante.net/when-basement-cat-comes-to-call-post869/</link>
		<comments>http://www.astrofiammante.net/when-basement-cat-comes-to-call-post869/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Astrofiammante</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lulz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[basement cat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lolcats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Be very careful about what you gamble your immortal soul on. That is all.]]></description>
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		<title>Little bright dot in the sky</title>
		<link>http://www.astrofiammante.net/little-bright-dot-in-the-sky-post854/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Astrofiammante</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The truth is out there]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Space Station]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sky-gazing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday evening we looked up into the sky and saw a bright twinkly dot rising in the south - the International Space Station was overhead.]]></description>
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		<title>AC Grayling: Why trainee doctors don&#039;t need to learn about ancient demon possession</title>
		<link>http://www.astrofiammante.net/ac-grayling-why-trainee-doctors-dont-need-to-learn-about-ancient-demon-possession-post845/</link>
		<comments>http://www.astrofiammante.net/ac-grayling-why-trainee-doctors-dont-need-to-learn-about-ancient-demon-possession-post845/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Astrofiammante</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Morally Bankrupt Godless Liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AC Grayling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's a nice video from the Richard Dawkins Foundation featuring the philosopher AC Grayling. He's explaining why the policy of 'teaching the controversy' in those areas of education that some would like to make controversial, even though they are really not at all controversial, does nothing but devalue education.]]></description>
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