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		<title>Tibetans killing themselves to protest Chinese opression</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China may be changing but not for the better in Tibet. This video shows a Tibetan nun burning herself alive in protest.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=4782&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hajj at The British Museum</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/02/04/hajj-at-the-british-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I visited the Hajj exhibition at the British Museum today. The queue to buy the ticket looked worse than it was. The queue to enter the exhibition wasn't so bad but I was a bit frustrated that everyone thought that they needed to queue for every exhibit. I skipped a few at the front and browsed around. A good exhibition but a lot of it was writing and photographs. They told the history and the story of the Hajj which is interesting but I like to see some exhibits and there were a reasonable number of these. Mostly tapestries but also some clothes worn during Hajj and a lot of old books. The tapestries were pretty amazing. The numbers of people made it difficult to get a good look at the explanatory text for each item but I guess I'm a bit impatient with this sort of thing. I like to hop from one thing to another and I hate queuing. A good exhibition but I think the lesson is to rent one of those talking boxes which will explain stuff as you wander around.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=4776&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pan-Pot feat. Cari Golden &#8211; Captain My Captain (Rodriguez Jr. Remix)</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/02/03/pan-pot-feat-cari-golden-captain-my-captain-rodriguez-jr-remix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pan-Pot feat. Cari Golden - Captain My Captain (Rodriguez Jr. Remix) <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=4774&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obituary: Ronald Searle</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/02/01/obituary-ronald-searle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good grief, the great and the good are dropping like flies. LAst week I heard that the cartoonist Ronald Searle had clocked out in December age 91. I can't write obits for all these people but thankfully this is not necessary as The Economist published a fantastic one last week. The audio edition is even better.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=4768&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>tarpaulin</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/01/29/tarpaulin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<title>travel photography  &#8211; Objectifying the subject</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/01/27/travel-photography-objectifying-the-subject/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in no way condemning the photographer of this shot. I have taken similar pictures and have to defend photography as an art form and state that, while the streets of western countries are fantastic subjects for photography the scale is less and less human. The beauty of pictures such as The Long Way Home may be related to their simplicity and humanity.

I guess there have always been disparities in wealth and power between the haves and have nots but these days cheap air travel seems to allow we who live in the rich world to objectify people from the “developing world” without a thought.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=4751&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State of Mind</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/01/24/state-of-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State of Mind by Zcienze<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=4745&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tooting, Balham and the Fucking Joggers</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/01/18/tooting-balham-and-the-fucking-joggers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obsession with sport has two advantages as far as society is concerned. First it keeps us fit so we can become more productive workers and second the endless discussion of the inanity of the scoring and point systems ensures that our brains are kept in an infinite loop of trivia and subsequently we are rendered too stupid to question anything.

"Play football on Sunday?" - "NO! FUCK OFF! I was too busy laying in bed thinking of ways to undermine the foundations of the corporate-military complex.....or something."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=4727&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gorgeous Morning</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/01/18/gorgeous-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought a Calvin &#38; Hobbes book over Christmas. &#8220;Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat&#8221; it was called. My present to myself. I adore this one&#8230;..it epitomises living in the western world in the 21st century in four simple frames. Tagged: Calvin and Hobbes, Gorgeous Morning<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=4722&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mainstream News vs The Blogosphere</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/01/06/mainstream-news-vs-the-blogosphere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As some bloggers gain credibility, some journalists will themselves paid peanuts to write 500 words on cup cakes. Sean Parker, founder of Napster and Facebook's founding president has said “What we don’t have are good organising tools so that institutions, which have hierarchy which have management, can actually leverage the power of social media to get things done in a consistent and sustainable way”. Presumably Mr. Parker is now developing tools to enable power to be leveraged by consistent and hierarchical management.

We may be living through an interregnum. The Internet is a disruptive technology but its long term effect on public discourse may be to just shake out the chaff. If the mainstream media want to remain relevant they need to focus on nurturing thoughtful journalists who produce pungent and insightful articles. In this respect the blogosphere may be a much needed kick up the arse.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&amp;blog=2000120&amp;post=4710&amp;subd=talkingbollocks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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