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	<title>Andrew’s Mental Dribbling</title>
	<link>http://dysphoria.net</link>
	<description>For long lost friends and stalkers</description>
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		<title>Moral Philosophy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a wonderful interview with the redoubtable, wonky-nosed, English genius Stephen Fry at bigthink.com. Among other things he argues for not believing in an afterlife so that you don’t waste time on Earth, and that it’s nonsense that, “Mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework.”
One of the commenters, by the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dysphoria.net/2010/02/24/moral-philosophy/</link>
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		<title>What I did on my holidays</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the start of this week I went back to work full time. I’ve recently been on a 9-month half-sabbatical (day-job 2 days; own project 3 days) to develop a software idea of my own. I’ve been working on a new, better, spreadsheet application.
This is the story of how I got on.

So I’d better explain…
What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dysphoria.net/2010/02/03/what-i-did-on-my-holidays/</link>
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		<title>District 9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Very well-made little film. Dissolves into a fire-fight/action-movie at the end, but very worth watching.
Notably, the effects (aliens, space-ship) are handled very naturalistically. You forget that they’re effects. (All the ‘prawn’ aliens were CGI, apparently, except the dead ones being dissected in the lab.)
Some of the characters seemed less than convincing, especially a couple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dysphoria.net/2009/09/06/district-9/</link>
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		<title>Moon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I wanted to applaud this film when the credits rolled at the end because it’s so intelligent, and self-contained and well-made and… elegant. Like a clever little short-story of a film which fired off all sorts of ideas in my head when I left the theatre.
Too many other reviewers have tried to make strained [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dysphoria.net/2009/07/30/moon/</link>
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		<title>Terminator Salvation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Disappointing. But go see it if you can sucessfully lower your expectations and smirk at the awful plot holes.
In a way this is a dreadful, dreadful movie. But in another way, composed as it is from the scavenged flesh of previous Terminator movies (and WWII action movies) laid over a mechanical script, and executed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dysphoria.net/2009/06/29/terminator-salvation/</link>
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		<title>Hindley-Milner type inference in Scala</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m working on a spreadsheet application at the moment. (Very exciting.) Part of the implementation obviously includes an expression language (so you can write things like total = sum(numbers) or vat = price × 17.5%).
Part of the design is to disallow things like "text" ÷ 11 or apples + oranges, and for that I need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dysphoria.net/2009/06/28/hindley-milner-type-inference-in-scala/</link>
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		<title>Watchmen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ooh, fantastic movie. I loved the book, and I loved the film. One of the few that I’d go to see again. It&#8217;s increadibly rich in detail and nuance.
It’s also a superhero movie—and a relatively stylised one—which is far more grounded and relevant than the supposed crop of gritty, rebooted things like The Dark Knight. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dysphoria.net/2009/03/07/watchmen/</link>
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		<title>Cyborg Beetles Take To The Skies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever wanted your own army of implacable cyborg beetles?
Oh, come on, you know you have.
Wouldn’t it be great to take a beetle (a), attach a microcontroller (d) with electrodes (e) attached to the beetle’s nervous system and muscles, then control it via wifi (b).
American researchers have apparently created a prototype beetleborg and had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dysphoria.net/2009/03/02/cyborg-beetles-take-to-the-skies/</link>
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		<title>Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Ah yes. It is a truism that no man is an island. Unless his name is Madagascar.
This is a funny little film. Very funny. Rather strange. Ultimately entertaining (and a little bit exasperating).
I didn’t like the original Madagascar much. I just didn’t get whether the characters were supposed to be animals-as-metaphors-for-humans (in which case [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dysphoria.net/2009/01/03/madagascar-escape-2-africa/</link>
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		<title>A Matter of Loaf And Death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Ah, yes, Wallace &#38; Grommit, possibly the best dog-and-human comedy act since… ever.
This new one (a cereal killer is slicing up bakers just when Wallace &#38; Grommit open their bakery, Top Bun), is well done. Not quite as flawless as The Wrong Trousers or The Curse of The Ware-Rabbit, but very funny.
It’s a little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://dysphoria.net/2008/12/30/a-matter-of-loaf-and-death/</link>
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