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		<title>A Gritty Performance &#8211; Live Sand Artistry!</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/a-gritty-performance-live-sand-artistry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not about building sand castles but is a remarkable video of a live performance on &#8220;Ukraine&#8217;s got talent&#8221;. An artist called Kseniya Simonova tells a tale of love in World War 2 using just sand and her fingers and artistic talent. She conjures up images in the sand with her fingers then wham [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Noun Project</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/the-noun-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 19:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=2031</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting site, it&#8217;s collecting public domain symbols to create a universal pictorial language. They all have to be free, easy to understand and cross culture. You see similar symbols at airports, ports, anywhere that the public visits. This is expanding on the set that&#8217;s currently in use. If you&#8217;re interested in symbols [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Map of The World</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/cultural-map-of-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is interesting and a bit different. If you plot countries of the world according to how they rate on the two scales of Traditional/Secular-rational and Survival/Self-Expression then you get the chart shown. What makes it particularly interesting is how the cultures spread between countries. If you are into this type of thing then you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>French Retro Futurism From 1920</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/french-retro-futurism-from-1920/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/french-retro-futurism-from-1920/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/17/french-retro-futurism-from-1920/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Retro-Futurism is looking back to a time when they foresee the future somewhat differently to how it panned out. By now of course we should all have flying cars and video phones and live in peace and harmony. TV programmes like Tomorrows World from the 1970s envisaged us living in a plastic furnished world, usually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone App Review &#8211; All Shakespeare&#8217;s Works (Free)</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/iphone-app-review-all-shakespeares-works-free/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/iphone-app-review-all-shakespeares-works-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What can you say about the works of Shakespeare? I wasn&#8217;t that keen at school, having Macbeth and the Merchant of Venice forced down my throat but over time have come to appreciate the cultural contribution and story telling that his plays brought. For instance these words were first seen in his plays, though that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Compass- Where are you?</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/political-compass-where-are-you/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/political-compass-where-are-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 23:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2008/03/24/political-compass-where-are-you/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Politics these days is not just a matter of Left v right but also authoritarian v Libertarian. I suspect this could be further mapped ie pro-business or anti-business etc. The Political Compass is a website that asks you 6 pages (not long pages) of questions to establish where you fit in. The chart also makes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Star Wars versus Star Trek</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/star-wars-versus-star-trek/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/star-wars-versus-star-trek/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 10:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/10/01/star-wars-versus-star-trek/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone into sci fi will be aware of both these series (never mind Babylon 5, Deep Space 9 and others) and it&#8217;s fun in a way to compare the two main ones to see how they vary in technologies, size, number of planets, political systems etc. This is an almost academical in its scope but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 Seconds &#8211; Japanese Map of America</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/30-seconds-japanese-map-of-america/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/30-seconds-japanese-map-of-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/10/16/30-seconds-japanese-map-of-america/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea what this is about but it&#8217;s colourful if rather badly wrong! It&#8217;s just a map of the USA, seemingly as the Japanese (well those who can&#8217;t read an Atlas or view Google Maps) perceive the USA. Link Republished by Blog Post Promoter]]></description>
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		<title>Humanity Through the Ages Illustration (NSFW!)</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/humanity-through-the-ages-illustration-nsfw/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/humanity-through-the-ages-illustration-nsfw/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/20/humanity-through-the-ages-illustration-nsfw/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This picture is 15,941 by 261 pixels in size. Scaled down and split into three chunks gives you an idea of the size. It&#8217;s well done but isn&#8217;t exactly safe for work- some bits have a touch of nudity and baby making but as a piece of art it&#8217;s tremendous! Link Republished by Blog Post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spectacular Co-ordinated South Korean Dance Video</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/spectacular-co-ordinated-south-korean-dance-video/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/spectacular-co-ordinated-south-korean-dance-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/23/spectacular-co-ordinated-south-korean-dance-video/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you see something so amazingly well done that you can&#8217;t but stare. This is one. It&#8217;s a video, just over seven and a half minutes long of a couple of thousand dancers who are effectively human pixels. They have different colour clothes on I&#8217;d guess and turn to face the camera at pretty precise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strictly No Photos But&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/strictly-no-photos-but/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/strictly-no-photos-but/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 20:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/11/19/strictly-no-photos-but/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This appeals to my subversive, resist authority nature. In their words Strictly no photography is a photo-sharing site for photographs taken where you are not allowed to take them. From the inside of the Kremlin to Kensington palace, from art galleries to war zones. The rise in the number of compact digital cameras and phone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trafalgar Square &#8211; Live Plinthers</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/trafalgar-square-live-plinthers/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/trafalgar-square-live-plinthers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 03:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1795</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Possibly qualifying for the most meaningless story title, the linked site (courtesy of Sky Arts) is a webcam showing several views and sounds of each of the 2,400 people who were successful in applying for an hour of glory. Each gets a designated hour to stand on the 4th plinth (the empty one on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Song Meanings- What Are they Saying?</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/songe-meanings-what-are-they-saying/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/songe-meanings-what-are-they-saying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve often thought that if you take song lyrics too literally you are just banging your head on a wall. Nevertheless with over 30,000 artists, over 350,000 lyrics and nearly a million comments from over 300,000 site members, it&#8217;s clear that discussing what song lyrics are about is very popular. That&#8217;s what this site does. [...]]]></description>
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