December 2011
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Dec 31st
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“New Year itself should always be disappointing – the person you want to kiss...”
– Morven Crumlish: Here’s to Hogmanay – and the art of getting on with tomorrow
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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twentyfourbit: The Kills: “Silent Night” “The moon makes me want to eat you alive,” sings Alison Mosshart in the Kills’ rewrite of this old Christmas tune. Hear their haunting acoustic take on “Silent Night,” which arrived today as the final installment of BBC 6’s MPFree Festive Giveaway, above.
Dec 24th
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“But life moves on. Children grow up, get married and have children of their own;...”
– The Invisible woman on wearing pyjamas on Christmas Day (via guardian)
Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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“You’re reading this (indulge me) in hour three of a five-hour train ride....”
– The Christmas journey Nice, evocative piece by Eva Wiseman on travelling home for Christmas.
Dec 22nd
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“My advice is to do what you can this second. Big plans that rely on other...”
– This much I know: Miranda July
Dec 19th
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in...”
– George Bernard Shaw
Dec 18th
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“Tunisians have unveiled a statue in honour of the man who set himself alight a...”
– Tunisia unveils Bouazizi cart statue in Sidi Bouzid
Dec 18th
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“He would always rather fight than give way, not for its own sake but because it...”
– Christopher Hitchens death: In Memoriam, my courageous sibling, by Peter Hitchens
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“We can always be sure of one thing—that the messengers of discomfort and...”
– Christopher Hitchens (via nedhepburn)
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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“That the world’s most powerful country—whose scientists have made a vast...”
– In the early hours of December 11th, after three days and nights of exhausting, often ill-tempered, final negotiations, the UN’s two-week-long climate-change summit ended in Durban with an agreement. America has reason to be glad of the outcome—yet its negotiators showed little enthusiasm for almost...
Dec 13th
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Dec 10th
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Trent Reznor and Karen O - Immigrant Song
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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Dec 8th
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“This study dispels the assumptions that the benefits of economic growth will...”
–  OECD secretary-general Angel Gurria (via BBC News - Wage inequality ‘getting worse’ in leading economies)
Dec 7th
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Dec 7th
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“When I named one of my sons Fidel, my mother said ‘that’s a bit of a...”
– BBC Sport - Obituary: Socrates
Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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“But the pepper video is also disturbing because of what it does not show. I’m...”
– Amy Rebecca Klein: Hot Topic: Pepper Spray, Race, and the Police Amy Rebecca Klein - a smart person to read & follow on tumblr.  
Dec 3rd
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