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Entries from May 2007

The Wait Gallery

May 24th, 2007 No Comments

As Derrida (I think – though it might have been an advert on the telly) once said, in order to understand the object, you have to be able to see what surrounds it. A thing is given definition and context by that which is outside of it.
Is it possible to get another view of how [...]

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The best thing ever on the web?

May 18th, 2007 3 Comments

One of the first things I ever saw on the internet that utterly entranced me was a webcam from a yellow cab in New York. There I was, sat in my Brixton bedroom late in the evening, watching the sun set between blocks as the cab-driver zig-zagged across the upper west side [...]

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Spam poetry

May 16th, 2007 1 Comment

Sometimes spam is randomly beautiful…
From: Niki Doubledee
Subject: Few of us ever met Chris McKinstry in person.
You cannot stop services in a clustered environment.
Work basket I could buy Molly’s birthday.
Here’s the method I use.
Wonder how it first struck him.
Harry, whose insides were aching with hunger, jumped off his bed and [...]

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