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		<title>Seven things&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 16:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I was tagged by the lovely Raiha Buchanan, fellow Twitterer and blogger based in Stockholm, in a chain-letter style challenge to write seven facts about myself that I have not already revealed here &#8212; then I, in turn, get to choose seven others to do the same. Seeing as I seldom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pieces-at-random.com&amp;blog=301678&amp;post=5818&amp;subd=shbadr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parallel posting</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wise words of David Ogilvy, &#8216;Imitation may be the sincerest form of plagiarism, but it is also the mark of an inferior person.&#8217; What better example of this than the recent launch of Skittles&#8217; new website, to the dismay of a public who sees it little more than a rip-off of the novel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pieces-at-random.com&amp;blog=301678&amp;post=3821&amp;subd=shbadr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Costs of excess</title>
		<link>http://pieces-at-random.com/2009/01/04/costs-of-excess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[«Tout s&#8217;achète : l&#8217;amour, l&#8217;art, la planète Terre, vous, moi&#8230;» - Frédéric Beigbeder At last it&#8217;s 2009, and the bad economic news continues on like a low-budget sequel with a sorely disappointed audience. The economists and pundits all seem to have morphed into fortune-tellers in the last few weeks, gazing through interest group-affiliated crystal balls [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pieces-at-random.com&amp;blog=301678&amp;post=2303&amp;subd=shbadr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paper cut-out snowflakes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Myths Series by Andy Warhol, 1981 As Pat Hackett most invariably came to find whilst transcribing Warhol&#8217;s vast collection of tape-recorded audio for the various publications he went on to publish in the 1970s and early 80s, Andy often drew a parallel between life and television &#8212; and quite possibly in no other time before [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pieces-at-random.com&amp;blog=301678&amp;post=2307&amp;subd=shbadr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get out&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://pieces-at-random.com/2008/11/04/get-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Badr © MMVIII See also: &#8216;Vote demographics&#8217; (pieces at random) Posted in Events, Opinion<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pieces-at-random.com&amp;blog=301678&amp;post=2076&amp;subd=shbadr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building acoustics</title>
		<link>http://pieces-at-random.com/2008/09/29/building-acoustics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sound structure I Cairo is a remarkably concrete city &#8212; a single view from the window whilst circling over Cairo International will attest to the fact that there&#8217;s no escaping it. Perhaps the root cause of my disliking the skyline once the Nile is out of sight and all that&#8217;s truly worth seeing has faded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pieces-at-random.com&amp;blog=301678&amp;post=322&amp;subd=shbadr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At face value</title>
		<link>http://pieces-at-random.com/2008/09/14/at-face-value/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flash-November 22, 1963 by Andy Warhol 21&#8243; x 21&#8243; screenprint, edition of 200 Colophon and text on white paper, 1968 Here, I generally tend to avoid mention of all things political mostly because that particularly bias-ridden topic of frictional dimensions is best saved for the Express Checkout site next-door. But political art, of course, is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pieces-at-random.com&amp;blog=301678&amp;post=920&amp;subd=shbadr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In personal stereo</title>
		<link>http://pieces-at-random.com/2008/09/07/in-personal-stereo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now normally it can be said that scientific study serves to reflect analysis in the pursuit of some sort of truth &#8212; a somewhat thorough investigation, if you will, of elemental relationships in order to increase understanding about ourselves and that which surrounds us all. But every now and then, the BBC News site publishes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pieces-at-random.com&amp;blog=301678&amp;post=691&amp;subd=shbadr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paint by numbers</title>
		<link>http://pieces-at-random.com/2008/05/27/paint-by-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 16:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We are the only species that creates gratuitous forms.&#8221; - Man Ray Little engine I&#8217;m not exactly sure how old I was when I made this picture, but I distinctly remember struggling to write my j&#8217;s right-way-forwards as I traced over letters in a manuscript book that was far less compelling than the classroom window. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pieces-at-random.com&amp;blog=301678&amp;post=309&amp;subd=shbadr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soul search</title>
		<link>http://pieces-at-random.com/2008/01/26/soul-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan.&#8221; - Sergey Brin iSearch You&#8217;re walking down a busy road in Central London. Suddenly you hear someone call out your name, only to then turn around and find that it&#8217;s a boy from your ninth grade Biology class. Yes, the one who sat next to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pieces-at-random.com&amp;blog=301678&amp;post=200&amp;subd=shbadr&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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