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Rock Albums: What's with the brevity?

Thu Jun 8, 2006 3:30 PM EDT

Muse. A band not normally associated with keeping things short and simple.

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music, review, album, rock, long, short, pop, culture, rap, song

5 Musical Gems

Fri Jun 2, 2006 12:00 PM EDT

Having read Brian Ford's recent post, I felt inspired to write my own article highlighting a few not-so-famous albums I own that I can thoroughly recommend.

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art, music, review, rock, jazz, pop, culture, song, dance, artist

Schumacher on Pole: Suspicious or What?

Sat May 27, 2006 10:09 AM EDT

So Schumacher's on pole position, and he's up to his old tricks once again. I haven't got anything against him recording a good time and completing a great lap, even if I am a McLaren fan. No.

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sports, f1, cars, fernando-alonso, michael-schumacher, grand-prix, renault, monaco, sport, ferrari

Arsenal return to domestic football with a bump

Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:10 AM EST

Link to article on BBC Sport website

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football, sports, soccer, arsenal, premiership, arsene-wenger, blackburn

Fiat Grande Punto set to get Superamerica-style roof

Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:25 AM EST

Link to article (from AutoExpress) (Once again, I wanted to seed the link, but my Seed Newsvine button still isn't working.)

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auto, fiat, odd-news, cars, roof, ferrari, grande-punto, superamerica, motoring

Wenger rules out top-two finish

Wed Feb 15, 2006 5:46 AM EST

(Sorry it's not on the Vine as a Seed: my Seed Newsvine button isn't working all of a sudden).

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football, sports, soccer, sport, arsenal, liverpool, premiership, arsene-wenger

"The IT Crowd" premieres

Sat Feb 4, 2006 7:14 AM EST

So, last night saw what has been hyped up as the return of the sitcom for all the family: The IT Crowd on Channel 4 here in the UK. And my verdict was... it was alright.

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entertainment, tv, television, help, comedy, channel-four, channel-4, it-crowd, the-it-crowd, little-britain

Latest Keynote Announcements

Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:51 PM EST

In case you can't get through to the MacRumorsLive page, I'm going to be updating this list with what Steve Jobs is announcing in his Keynote. BTW All the info is sourced from MacRumors.com

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technology, apple, ipod, intel, expo, mac, imac, steve-jobs, ilife, keynote

Simple Things Are Beautiful

Mon Jan 9, 2006 10:07 AM EST

Has anyone else realised just how powerful a tool it is that on Newsvine, all you have to do to search for articles about something is to type in www.newsvine.com/[whatever you're looking for]. I did for a moment consider looking for a Firefox search plugin to search Newsvine, b

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technology, search, newsvine, url

Minor update to Radiohead website // Unreleased On A Friday recordings emerge

Mon Jan 9, 2006 9:28 AM EST

http://www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/01/0407.cfm http://www.radiohead.com

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entertainment, music, greenpeace, radiohead, rock-music, war-child, alternative-music, q-magazine

Skype 2.0 : Not embraced by young people

Sat Jan 7, 2006 10:01 AM EST

After about a month in beta, the original mainstream VoIP client has upped the anté with video calling in its latest release, version 2.0. No matter how excited this might be for certain groups of people, it has to be said that, certainly among the younger generation, there does

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technology, voip, skype, msn-messenger