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A collection of 38 posts

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Carlton Mansions Eviction

Lambeth council are acting very unreasonably towards my neighbours in Carlton Mansions. Brixton Buzz have the story here. I've written to the Coldharbour Ward councillors. Dear Councillors Anyanwu, Heywood & Parr, I am writing to express my concern and disappointment with the way the council is treating my

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Finally, I'm an Official Iron Maiden Fan Club member

Yes, i've chosen to make my favourite tattooed millionaire a little richer. And it's about time too. * They were the band of my teens. * They are my favourite live band * Three of their concerts are in my all time top 10. * This summer I drove 3000

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Resistance gallery: Beauty in Decay

A new exhibition of stunning photos of urban decay open tomorrow at the Resistance gallery (265 Poyser Street, London, E2 9RF), to promote a forthcoming book of photos in the same theme. Beauty in Decaymore details at Wooster Collective

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The king's players

At Shakespeare's Globe they take your title very seriously.

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Three out. Of three.

[caption id="attachment_982" align="aligncenter" width="640" caption="~Nadja ~Max & ~Tessa\'s room"] [/caption] Who needs an octopus to demonstrate publication bias? The door of my spare room has pretty good track record so far. Although, it is more

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Londonist

http://londonist.com If you like to keep in touch with fun things Londonish then i can certainly recommend Londonist. Always well written and covering all kinds of London news and events that you might otherwise miss. Here's their take on McCartney's (surely counter-productive) ungoogling link

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The consequence of surveillance?

via Londonist See also their cheerful map of the V2-rocket impact sites in London. It's the sunshine version of Gravity's Rainbow.

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What kind of sick bastard...

chops up books to make jewellery? 'Artist' Jeremy May that's who. DEPLOY demi-couture presents the debut exhibition of artist JEREMY MAY's bespoke ‘LITERARY JEWEL' -- where each ring is individually hand-crafted and lacquered from vintage books for those thoughtful and romantic Valentines in

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what goes up (must come down)

A short film by Adam Smith with music by North of Ping Pong and featuring lots of lovely londonness [video:youtube:8V_T9qkrdHs]

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Gorilla fundraising

My gorilla suit has arrived, I've purchased a pair of plimsoles, I may even start training any day now. Please sponsor me to help make it impossible for me to back out. Thanks

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run for the hills, the mountains and the lowlands

i never thought i'd say this but i am taking up jogging. since the first time they made us do cross county aged 8, i've known i am a dreadful runner, even when i was incredibly fit from 6 days a week swimming training i couldn&

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what's wrong with this picture?

Is London's future Islamic?continues The rest of the article is a slightly bonkers description of an Islamic London that clearly can't decide why it was written in the first place, and comes close to satirizing itself in the process. And it finishes in the same

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This is your captain

I was fairly early for my flight back from Amsterdam today so I chose to sit in seat 1A. Which meant I got to sit next to a pilot catching a lift back to London. Didn't really have much to say to him but until he got to

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the cognitive neuroscience of ghosts

You may have laughed at my cognitive neuropsychology of zombies. At least I hope you did because that was the main intention of it. But it seems that ghosts and hauntings are taken more seriously by psychologists. But I have just been updating my google calendar of Cognitive Science Talks

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Outlook for some Londons

To put the fanastically varied weather we've been having into perspective, here's the weather in some Londons this week. London, Nigeria wins for the electrical storms, with London, Burma a close second, whilst London, Russia looks to be in for a sharp cold snap. It isn&

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Cognitive Science Seminars in London 2006-7

http://www.cbcd.bbk.ac.uk...onseminars.html I've put together a google calendar of forthcoming pychology and cognitive science seminars in central London. Share and enjoy! (And let me know of any errors or omissions)

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sweaty eyelids

ascending the escalators at TCR earlier this evening, I glimpsed a man descending with sweaty eyelids.. ewww.. Mercifully, he was passed before I got too grossed out. but not before I was able to discern that other than his oddly glistening eyelids, he was not excessively sweaty elsewhere. Needless to

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Thirty years of restaurants

Last night I went the the Jazz club in the basement of Pizza Express at 10 Dean St. I was surprised. I'd always known there was a jazz club there but I had always imagined that the jazz was something of an after-thought; a cynical marketing wheeze mainly

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Experiments.. in theatre

I know many of you like experiments and that most of you are keen on the theatre. You are all in luck because on the evening of Monday 15th May in the Soho Theatre, London you can enjoy both! Tassos Stevens has a PhD in developmental psychology but for the

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Big Ben and the midnight news

Dear Radio Four, For many years I had just assumed that the bongs on the midnight news were live. Then one day some months ago, I considered the impractical logistics of maintaining a lone dusty microphone in Saint Stephen's tower and almost convinced myself that therefore the programme

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a great privilege

Here we see the Queen (of England) being introduced to ME. Look how pleased she is!

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where have you been?

So i just met Her Maj, Prince Phil and da princess royal.. it was more fun than i expected.. they were pretty dull but Buckingham Palace was darn cool..  Wasn't expecting it to be quite as palatial as it was... lots of large  extremely elegantly luxurious rooms with

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Moore, Moorcock and more!

Thanks to a tip on Neil Gaiman's blog, I am going to an evening with Alan Moore in conversation with Michael Moorcock at Blackwells, Charing Cross on 18th Jan. Of MM's massive output* I've only read the wonderful Mother London, but I the sequel

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From A to Z

A failed journey i once undertook was to visit the first and last place in a motoring atlas of the british isles... depending on what authority you consult the first is a little village in Somerset called Abbas Combe, the last is the moderately famous village of Zennor not far

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Bodidharma's Eyelids - Chapter 2

Chapter 2 London, Tuesday 17th December Doctor Whittard, the chief Librarian, was not a happy man. The biggest problem when running a government department that does not officially exist is the filling in of forms. Government runs on paperwork and in order to get anything done, the appropriate forms have