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            <title>MachineMachine will play loud noises at 5pm, listen at http://www.wiredradio.co.uk myloc. ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[therourke: MachineMachine will play loud noises at 5pm, listen at www.wiredradio.co.uk http://myloc.me/1BPWT]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:31:02 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>TGIF = Hana-Kin | What Japan Thinks</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thank Goodness It&#8217;s Friday is, or at least was, called Hana No Kinyoubi (花の金曜日), Flower Friday, and may be shortened to just Hana-Kin (花金). The term came into use in the 1980s, but now has mostly falled into disuse. The TGIF feeling wa...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:30:47 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Thank You for Smoking | Kyklops</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In Shinjuku, tomorrow Shizuoka. This shitty laptop is on its dying legs. Went to Dubliners for a couple of pints. Didn't know anybody and nobody knew me. I wasn't surprised by this. It's always a bit disappointing, though-- going to a bar and not seeing...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:35:17 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>tomato miso soup | Adventures In Japan</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[One morning, I was watching a program and they mentioned that the "trend" nabe (hot pot) this season was tomato.Awhile back it was tonyu (soy milk) and then it was curry, but this year it is tomato. The way they cooked the hot pot on the program was...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:35:01 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>you can't afford to be skinny | Huge Entity</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mr. Daniel posted a photo:


i.imgur.com/SrW5N.jpg]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:48:41 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Overhyped Placebos of Doom? | Huge Entity</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Let’s say a new drug appears to be effective in combating a condition like chronic anxiety and is the subject of popular news stories. When the drug enters clinical trials, patients who take the drug report significantly less anxiety. But so do patien...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:48:39 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>wildlife photographer | Huge Entity</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Mr. Daniel posted a photo:


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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:48:38 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Mummies, mass murder and pseudo-science! Top 3 Cults of Japan! | Adventures of a Salaryman</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Since my previous list of top　worst image characters of Japan proved to be such a roaring success I thought I should provide you all with another ranking of a very similar subject: cults.If you start looking I’m sure there’s plenty of freaky cul...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:33:33 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Foiled again | Timorous Beastie</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After her many shenanigans in Tokyo, Screechy eventually moved, with her husband, to Washington DC, and I moved to here to England. We stay in touch occasionally, but I did not expect to see her again, since we are no longer colleagues nor living on the...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:33:57 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Jazz Up Your Japanese with Onomatopoeia | Japan Visitor</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Jazz Up Your Japanese with Onomatopoeiaby Hiroko FukudaKodansha InternationalISBN: 4-7700-2956-X238 ppOriginally published by Kodansha as "Flip, Slither and Bang: Japanese Sound and Action Words" as part of their Power Japanese series, this volume has...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:34:04 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>The complete guide to ELT Jargon Part 26 | TEFLtastic</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Chat bots- Teachers who are reduced to automatic expressions of “interest” by a student who keeps on going on and on
Cognitive strategies- Ways of avoiding having to think in class
Connectionism- Knowing enough people to get a university job
Constru...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:28:17 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>This Is Not Your Grade School Solar System | Huge Entity</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Pick up a 30-year-old astronomy textbook and you will find more illustrations of planets than actual pictures; Pluto still holds onto its full planet status and exoplanets are theoretical. In the intervening decades, new instruments and methods have acted...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:42:32 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Asia is Outspending the USA 3-to-1 in Clean-Tech Investments | TreeHugger</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Race for Clean-Tech is On
A new study by the Breakthrough Institute and the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation shows that the U.S. could be left behind by Asia (specifically by China, South Korea and Japan) when it comes to investing in...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 01:32:40 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>A beer over dinner at home favourite way to booze in Japan | What Japan Thinks</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another interesting look at drinking alcohol with MyVoice.
Demographics
Over the first five days of October 2009 13,102 members of the MyVoice internet community completed a private online questionnaire. 54% of the sample were female, 14% in...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:30:51 +0100</pubDate>
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            <title>Takoage | adekun</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Throughout the year many kite flying events are held across the country. The festival has a long history dating back to the Eiroku era. Perhaps now, the gatherings, kites and armies of happi clad flyers are not as big as they used to be (see Takoage...]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:41:12 +0100</pubDate>
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