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• Learning Polish would have been easier with these tables from the start
• Who owns who – your phone or you?
• Couldn’t have put this better myself…
• Facebook undertakes pointless experiment, manipulates 689,000 users.
• Science fiction’s real life war of the worlds
• 1984: the instruction manual for our time (via Scriptonite Daily)
• On why women who like women sometimes like women who look like men
• Puissant review of ‘The Scar’ by China Mieville
• Uncomfortable in our skin: the body-image report >> via The Guardian
• My love, my choice: on Cynthia Nixon and why gay is sometimes better « Thought Catalog
• Building the Master’s House: How the Construction of Heterosexuality Happened >> Autostraddle
• Is ‘Fringe”s Peter who he seems to be?
• What’s in a name?
• Christmas: meh to mesmerisation, merriment to moderation
• “Lady Gaga Won’t Empower You For Shit” by Drew Magary, via Deadspin

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• Dr Atkinson on James Bulger case: “under-12s can’t be criminals” …Say what now?

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