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		<title>Poetry and Motion</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2009/05/06/poetry-and-motion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 19:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As we see a change of Poet Laureate, the panel on last week&#8217;s Any Questions - including the outgoing Laureate, Andrew Motion - were asked to explain the point of the role.

For a spineless New Labour schmuck, Liam Byrne was very soulful.
Well I think this is a great question the day after Shakespeare’s birthday.  [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2009/03/06/757/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to give up on Amnesty
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2009/02/12/756/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Airports, bloody airports
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		<title>Speaking of design communities</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2009/01/27/speaking-of-design-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2009/01/27/speaking-of-design-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While we&#8217;re on the subject of websites for creatives, I&#8217;ve just launched a whole network of sites for design professionals, the World Interior Design Network. I&#8217;m quite excited by the fact that it&#8217;ll be my first go at blogging professionally (although the blog isn&#8217;t available yet - grr IT development time).
The range of sites is [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2009/01/17/754/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2009/01/17/754/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yusuf Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Heathrow: the Sweetener that Ain&#8217;t
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		<title>Created in Birmingham</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2009/01/06/created-in-birmingham/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2009/01/06/created-in-birmingham/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Management</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I just voted for West Midlands creative networking blog Created In Birmingham as the Best UK Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards, and I&#8217;d urge you to do the same.
No, I don&#8217;t particularly care about the Brummie creative arts world (much as I love Napalm Death and Jasper Carrott&#8230;), but they&#8217;re the entrant with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And this is why we keep politicians away from projects</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/12/04/and-this-is-why-we-keep-politicians-away-from-projects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/12/04/and-this-is-why-we-keep-politicians-away-from-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: Is my maths right that to add step-free access to this station would cost 0.0075 per cent of the overall Crossrail budget?
A: I am sure your maths is correct, my Lord, but the point I am making is that the whole project is made up of things which cost 0.0075 per cent of the [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/10/02/751/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t bother switching banks
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		<title>Herring on Brown</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/09/30/herring-on-brown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/09/30/herring-on-brown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the best analyses of Labour&#8217;s current situation that I&#8217;ve seen, from comedian Richard Herring:
What does Gordon Brown really have to lose at this point? If he said &#8220;David Milliband is a scary eyed Brutus trying to stab me in the back and Ruth Kelly is a stupid Christian twat. I&#8217;m in [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/09/17/749/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/09/17/749/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Another excellent piece from a sex worker
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		<title>Sporting, indeed</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/09/17/sporting-indeed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/09/17/sporting-indeed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 10:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice quote:

Who&#8217;d have thought that we&#8217;d see Newcastle United sponsored by the Bank of England and Manchester United by the Federal Reserve?
(from here)
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/08/29/747/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/08/29/747/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:39:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Boris makes a difference. Good news if you like dead women.
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		<title>Hydrogen Car Emits Like a Hummer</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/08/25/hydrogen-car-emits-like-a-hummer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/08/25/hydrogen-car-emits-like-a-hummer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Merrick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: When is a low-carbon fuel not a low-carbon fuel?
A: When it&#8217;s hydrogen.
If you think that&#8217;s not funny, you&#8217;re right. It&#8217;s not. Hydrogen is being touted as a climate saviour, yet would actually lead to greater carbon emissions.

A British company called ITM Power has unveiled a home electrolyser, a device that uses electricity to to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piracy isn&#8217;t immoral, even if it&#8217;s illegal. Arr!</title>
		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/08/20/piracy-isnt-immoral-even-if-its-illegal-arr/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/08/20/piracy-isnt-immoral-even-if-its-illegal-arr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Software, whether that&#8217;s a CD, a text file of a book, or a computer program, is a good with a marginal cost of zero. Hence basic economics tells us an individual act of software copying makes society in aggregate better off and harms nobody (because the total producer surplus plus consumer surplus is maximised when [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/08/13/744/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesharpener.net/2008/08/13/744/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John B</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Targets *do* produce better healthcare outcomes
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