tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76501382011-09-28T19:55:44.078-07:00This is a place to put information I'd like to share about useful resources - mainly on the web!Ian Mileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10735847477342688319noreply@blogger.comBlogger1701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7650138.post-86516860971300036092011-03-22T06:38:00.000-07:002011-03-22T06:38:02.655-07:00

http://www.presentationmagazine.com/powerpoint.htm

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Scimago Journal & Country Rank

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99 of the best Windows freeware programs you may not know of 

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Moonalice - Musicnice live sound, featuring ex-starship crew

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OCW Finder

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The Online Books Page: Serials

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Ansible Linkscheap truth ishttp://www.its.caltech.edu/~erich/cheaptruth/checkpoint is:http://checkpoint.ansible.co.uk/

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Cheap Truth

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Ansible Links

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Time for a Retrospective Graduate Tax? | Whitehall Watch

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Hanken - Beyond the pro-innovation bias..." Innovation research seems to be built on a fundamental assumption that 'innovation is good', which limits the ability of decision makers and change agents to anticipate unintended and undesirable consequences. Hence, a central theme is to develop an understanding of how this bias is constructed in order to explore how it could be deconstructed.

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Escape Pod » Best-OfI was looking for discussions of autonomy in SF and wound up here

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Directory Listing of /texts/strange_information/Read and marvel! Fort, Charles - New Lands.pdf Fort, Charles - The Book of the Damned.pdf Fort, Charles - Wild Talents.pdf

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UNESDOC Database | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1.Engineering: issues, challenges and opportunities for development; UNESCO report (English)1850*   6.Case study on the effects of tourism on culture and the environment: Nepal; Chitwan-Sauraha and Pokhara-Ghandruk (English)

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Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. Today: Aiseesoft Streaming Video Recorder - Aiseesoft Streaming Video Recorder enables you to download videos from YouTube, Google video, Yahoo video, PBS, ESPN, blogtv, Adobe TV, ...I downloaded an excellent screen captuyre facility from this site a week ago

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Manageability - Open Source Graph or Network Visualization Written in Javathe web author writes: "Open Source Graph or Network Visualization - Just as I did the last list "Open Source Structured Graphics Libraries Written in Java" I realized that I needed an entirely new category. Well here's that category, network or graph visualization written in open source Java. It's got some pretty

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Harmony

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NYRblog - Britain: The Disgrace of the Universities - The New York Review of Books"British universities face a crisis of the mind and spirit. For thirty years, Tory and Labour politicians, bureaucrats, and “managers” have hacked at the traditional foundations of academic life. Unless policies and practices change soon, the damage will be impossible to remedy..."...From the accession of

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currently Betty Boop cartoons on Free Cartoons TV (USA) - TV e Rádios Em Directo | Ao Vivo - TVtugago up a level for many more channels

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here is the set-list.Set listFor German speakers and lovers of Robert Wyatt, Michael Mantler, Annie Whitehead, Sarah Jane Morris,   etc., I recommend pointing your browser at http://tela.sugarmegs.org/_asxtela/RobertWyattVariations2008-10-31FrankfurtGermany.asx and letting Windows Media Player or whatever do its job.Deutsches Jazzfestival Frankfurt 2008 -  'The Wyatt Variations' Or you can

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Mandelbulb: The Unravelling of the Real 3D Mandelbrot Fractal

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BBC - Wildlife Finder - Homepage"...30 years of wildlife film making. Dive into the BBC's archive, explore the wealth of video, sound, stories and breaking news, and let the greatest show on Earth unfold..."

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American Road Free Pictures - FreeFoto.comthis just happens to be the page I'm on, there is lots more here.  I am looking for a spaghetti junction foto.

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Photos - EU  free photos for presentations

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The Forbidden Corner - The Strangest Place In The Worldlooks good, havent been,  need a young child prepared to travel!

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Humorous Quotations and Sayings - Page 1Dilbertian QuotesA magazine recently ran a "Dilbert Quotes" contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real life Dilbert-type managers. Here are the top 12 finalists: 1. As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive

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Weft QDA - a free, open-source tool for qualitative data analysisI havent tried this free qualitative analysis software - but looks promising!-Weft QDA is an easy-to-use tool to assist in the analysis of textual data such as interview transcripts, written texts and fieldnotes. It includes a number of fairly standard CAQDAS features (follow links to see screenshots): Import documents from plain

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LibriVox: Search Results

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Lit to Go: Browse by Author

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Publish or Perish - Anne-Wil Harzing(quotes)Publish or Perish is designed to empower individual academics to present their case for research impact to its best advantage. We would be concerned if it would be used for academic staff evaluation purposes in a mechanistic way.....Publish or Perish is a software program that retrieves and analyzes academic citations. It uses Google

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ExplorerXP - Freeware file manager for Win2K/XPstrangely my newish PC came without Winexplorer, and getting there through "Documents" is a pain.But here is a real improvcement, not least since it hasd tabs (and you can save yiour favourites)and it shows folder size.and more.

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A Tideswellmans' Weblog: BNP Flyer - Ammended Versionthe BNP (fascist party hoping to do welll in the current political mess) issued posters and flyers featuring various nonBritish people (including a Spitfire piloted by a pole).

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Pathway To Unknown Worldseducation made easylook at the links

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Science Fiction Studies is published three times a yearmany back issues and key artciles downloadable, together with timelines and other goodiesfor example:#5: The Science Fiction of Philip K. Dick (Full text) #7: The Science Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin (Full text) #10: Science Fiction Before Wells (Full text)

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Beyond the Beyond - Wired Blogs

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Music downloads

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Audio Sound File Converter Software- Convert to wav, mp3, wma etc.

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or spyware etc.Megaupload SX.3.2 :: Firefox Add-ons

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Hidden Track » Grousing The Aislesgo to Steely Dan page for brilliant concert recordings

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Liam’s Pictures from Old BooksOver 2,120 high-resolution images scanned from more than 100 different old or rare books, with extracts! Remains of Ruined Castles, Deserted Abbeys, Old Manor Houses, mansions and stately homes; also engravings, woodcuts and pictures of Old England and Wales; symbols, photographs and clip-art, Pictures of old books, and much more, stock images scanned from old books,

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World Mysteries - Strange Artifacts, Ancient Flying Machinesthough atlantis makes an appearance...

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SlideShare (share powerpoint presentations online, slideshows, slide shows, download presentations, widgets, MySpace codes)

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LOOP for FirefoxPowered by ScribeFire.

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tela.sugarmegs.org - /darkstar/Unusually good lengthy jams, downloadable out of US office hours:gd_JammingAtTheEdgeOfMagic.wmagd_JammingAtTheEdgeOfMagic2.wmagd_JammingAtTheEdgeOfMagic3.wma and especially the LSTs:GD_LongStrangeTrips_2.wmagd-LongStrangeTrips01.wma gd-LongStrangeTrips03_pt1.wmagd-LongStrangeTrips03_pt2.wma gd-LongStrangeTrips04pt1.wma gd-LongStrangeTrips04pt2.wma

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YouTube - The Secret History of Silicon Valley video of lecture by Steve BlankPowered by ScribeFire.

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Interesting sources, sorry, no time to html these addresses:Click to download: Johnny without the cash | Rock | Guardian Unlimited Music Best for covers: Cover Freakcoverfreak.comUS Download: Tricky - The Love Cats (posted 30/12/07)Best for tomorrow's big names: iTunes Storeapple.com/itunesDownload: Palladium - Happy HourBest for old gramophone records: Turtle's 78rpm Jukeboxturtleservices.com/

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Prog Not Frog - Leaping Around This Musical Globe Since 1724...other obscurities!

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Time Has Told Meis a listing of mainly folk people and albums, and was where I finally located the great long-lost Carolanne Pegg album.

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we was there (for a small fraction of these goodies)BBC - Radio 3 - Womad 2007 - Listen AgainPowered by ScribeFire.

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Facebook | Photos of KTDPowered by ScribeFire.

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Spybot-S&D! This seems to have located and killed off a load of problems that even Ad-Aware could not find.Powered by ScribeFire.

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Spyware Warrior: Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products & Web SitesThis was just what I needed after Spyguard Pro highjacked Internet Explorer - good job we are Firefox fans here. Ad-aware seems to be eliminating it as I write.BTW I am putting my StumbleUpon finds on facebook, and yes, this blog is named after Jack Bruce album.Powered by ScribeFire.

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MediaCoder - more than a universal audio/video transcoder: "MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution."

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NPR: All Songs Considered: Archiveslots to listen to here, if you should ever be LiveFM-outed. (If that should happen, try entering "caetano veloso"Powered by ScribeFire.

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disposableWebPage.com:This is where you get your disposable web page. The clock will start counting down immediately upon creating the page. Remaining Time: 90 days 00 hours 00 minutes. You can set to clock to a time lesser than 90 days. Look for the Set Disposal Time link."Disposable web page offers you the convenience and freedom of getting information out there on the internet with as little

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All My Faves | Why Search?:if you have time""

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15 Ridiculously Useful WebsitesOK, we have different understandings of useful"!But I did find this one of the 15 to be fun and interesting.Quote: "Musicovery Seriously, the coolest music-related site I've seen. You choose the mood, intensity, and genres of the music you would like to hear and the site will provide you with a virtual web of music to explore. The web evolves with each choice you

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THEWEBLIST.net | what people are clicking on todaytop items from wide range of sources

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THEWEBLIST.net | what people are clicking on todaytop items from wide range of sources

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BBC Radio Playergood to use for LKate Junction etc., but this week tryhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/event_bobdylan.shtml"an hour of Bob Dylan's greatest hits, compiled from over 40 years of concerts. Dream Dylan Live features four performances direct from Dylan's own archives, which have never been heard since they were originally performed. Of special interest to Dylan fans is a

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Acorn Adventure Holidaysand we had great time again this year with these guys, canoeing the Ardeche, white water rafting, caving, abseiling and gorge walking. Perfect for 10-16 year olds and parent/guardians (there are also activities for youngers) Some pix on Flickr

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the Crocky Trailits near Chester, our kids love it, and we had a great afternoon today for arrun's birthday trip with five 11-12 year olds.You might want to know that some people regard it as a health and safety nightmare, while many share my view that this is exactly the sort of activity that kids of my generation regarded as normal fun, and which is squeezed out in risk society. Anyway, see

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Zotero - The Next-Generation Research Toolpromising firefox extension

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chaoszone PBwiki looks v friendly.PBwiki - looks v friendly, student is using just to keep his notebook available anywhere.Powered by ScribeFire.

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Free Albums Galorewide range of genres!

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Periodic Table of the InternetLots to disagree with here, but there are several sites I didnt know that look worth exploring.Powered by ScribeFire.

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OpenURL Referrer if you use Firefox , you might find the OpenURL Referrer add-on useful.  It adds a link to web pages that feature bibliographic references which allows you to search for the full document. It works with Google scholar or any page that includes COinS data (as does Jason Rutter's Digiplay bibliography).Other extensions I find invaluable are DOWNTHEMALL and SCRIBEFIRE.Powered

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The Heat Warpsa trawl around the archives of this blog has links to amazing material such as the fondly remembered Soft machine's Prom Concert; Dylan's New York studio version of Blood on the Tracks; lost albums from Byrds, Neil Young; and masses of material from Miles Davis and colleagues.

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continuing the ramble through music blogs:Not Rock On: John Cale live 1983Powered by ScribeFire.

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Brazilian Nuggets Esseé um blog dedicado à pouco conhecida psicodelia brasileira. Pretendopostar com freqüência alguns álbuns relevantes e raros dos anos 60 e70, bem como resenhas, históricos e curiosidades.Powered by ScribeFire.

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Lost-In-Tymeblog with links to a host of obscure psychedelia, incHapshash, Crosby out-takes, Sunfighter, Fever Tree... and other stuff like early Fairports.  Links to other sites.

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Yoono, People Poweredhandy tools for annotating, capturing, saving, blogging and the like

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The SDP Multimedia website for ASF download and MMS protocol specificationdownload mms files, including from asf pointers.Powered by ScribeFire.

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Scribdthis is a flickr or youtube for documents.a lot of trivia, but there are gems like Tynfdall centre work.

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720 manually selected sites about Open Source: 720 Open Source Computer technology sites, last updated on 16 March 2007"

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Fort Belan - Walesspoent a good weekend here with a Chorlton group. see pix on Flickr.

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Tuesday, March 06, 2007 Mozilla - Home of the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email clientbe careful about upgrading to Firefox 2, lots of extensions do not (yet I hope) work, and I found biug problems in opening PDFS.worse, when I installed the upgrade to Acrobat Reader, it somehow wiped my version of Acrobat Professional (on site license) off my PC, and I now have to wait to have

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U B U W E Bthe films are described as the YouTube of the avant garde. also:Poetry, music (e.g. a major Terrr Riley), text and more.

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Whitney MuseumSteve Reich celebration. "Its Gonna Rain"... process music, minimalism and beyond.

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Wiki Science/How to start a Wiki - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbookssince we will soon be wiki-ing, here is a starter introduction

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tela.sugarmegs.org - /darkstar/new location for vast range of concert performances: only accessible out of US E Coast office hours!

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spamgourmet - free disposable email addresses, spam blockergood way of reducing spam, if you are giving your email to businesses and various commercial sites.

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BBC - Music - Bob Dylan - Video and Audio Clips Yes, that just about sdums it up? When are they going to release/screen the great concert from the earlier 60s? and what about that TV drama with a Dylan score (and maybe appearance)... Jack of Diamonds??

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BBC - Painting the Weather100+ paintings from 50 UK galleries: lots of rain!

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30 Freeware Essentials most standard applications, e.g. a good photo editor.

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haha.nu - a lifestyle blogzine: "Strange statues around the world" is just one of the diversions here.

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The Hindu : Metro Plus Bangalore / Music : A dead-ringer for Ringo HUGO DEGENHARDT: look for his Grolsch advert at http://myspace.com/arrun (and no doubt many other places.

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BBC World Home Page www.bbcworld.com/click was what the lady oin TV said; the weekly programme has among other things a review of interesting webpages, clickable of course.

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TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal web notebookWiki made easy, it seems.... I will definitely be trying this!

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Loughborough University - Physical Geography Research - Resources GatewayTri-plot lets you create a ternary graphic from Excel data on three variables (providing they add to 100%). I've tried several other programs and this is the easiest. Like so much Excel, you still have to label points individually.

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ViaMichelin: street map, maps, route finder, route plannerUsing this to plot European journey - c'est magnifique!

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Whiskycats - Official Websitegreat jazzy tracks from Arrun's guitar teacher's band.

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Jacob Cordingley : Music, lyrics, downloads @ BandSpace.comour friend Jacob's myspace page with nice tracksJacob didnt get much of a hearing at WOMAD, so appreciate at your leisure.(The Rivertribe - see earlier post -begins to pall after you've heard it a few times... the captured sounds are good though)

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Defence Internet | Freedom of Information | Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) in the UK Air Defence Region: "Defenc"

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climateprediction.net - BBC Climate Change Experiment use spare computer resources to model climate change in distributed computing.

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Main Page - FreeMind - free mind mapping software what it says on the label!

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Funky Do MorroTons of brasiliana , favela flavour mp3s

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U B U W E BMusic (eg Terry Riley)Plays (eg Harold Pinter)Seminars and lectures (eg Lacan)Interviews (err... lots of people)and more

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