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		<title>Cliche- Rotation Project</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/cliche-rotation-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/10/26/cliche-rotation-project/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally in my travels across the 987 corners of the web I encounter something a bit different and this one comes under the title of sustainable cliches. Old cliches are overused, hackneyed, weary and just deserve their final moment in an electric box or car crusher. The people at the defectiveyeti website decided to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spoof &#8211; Made Up News</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/the-spoof-made-up-news/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/the-spoof-made-up-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sites like the Onion have been around for years but The Spoof is new to me. As something of a writer (not rich or award winning!) I am tempted to have a go myself The site has a somewhat British flavour albeit with American spellings (e.g. humor) but that may just be the particular writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Yes Men- Exposing Evildoers!</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/the-yes-men-exposing-evildoers/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/the-yes-men-exposing-evildoers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[prank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-corporate]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=249</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I really like this concept &#8211; it appeals to my fundamentally subversive nature. The Yes Men is an informal organisation of people who expose corporate idiocy and similar by impersonating them at conferences and giving talks, presentations etc on totally ludicrous subjects. If you know some of the work of the English comedian Mark Thomas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jester- Picking Jokes to Suit You</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/jester-picking-jokes-to-suit-you/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/jester-picking-jokes-to-suit-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[collaborative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/23/jester-picking-jokes-to-suit-you/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is interesting. A research project to try and work out jokes that match your sense of humour. As they say &#8220;Jester uses a collaborative filtering algorithm called Eigentaste to recommend jokes to you based on your ratings of previous jokes.&#8221; Of course I&#8217;m not sure quite how they classify humour or rate a joke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Track Any Mobile Phone- World Wide</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/track-any-mobile-phone-world-wide/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/track-any-mobile-phone-world-wide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humour]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/07/11/track-any-mobile-phone-world-wide/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is really clever and of course scary. For the last couple of years, mobile phone manufacturers have built in the capability of tracking mobile phones. Ostensibly it is to locate people in car accidents or who are lost, but of course it can also be used to watch the location of anyone. Now this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stone Trek- Imagine Star Trek meets the Flintstones</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/stone-trek-imagine-star-trek-meets-the-flintstones/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/stone-trek-imagine-star-trek-meets-the-flintstones/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/08/25/stone-trek-imagine-star-trek-meets-the-flintstones/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a flash animation that combined Star Trek with the Flintstones with characters such as Captain James T Kirkstone, First Officer Sprock, Leonard RcKoy- you get the idea. The characters look like the Flintstones in Star Trek uniforms and there&#8217;s a running gag about red shirts who keep getting bumped off. This is an excellent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google New Year Easter Egg</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/google-new-year-easter-egg/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/google-new-year-easter-egg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah those wacky Google jokers. Click the &#8220;I&#8217;m feeling lucky&#8221; button and you get a countdown (in seconds) until the new year! Calling it an Easter Egg at this time of year seems a bit odd and yet&#8230; Link Republished by Blog Post Promoter]]></description>
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		<title>100 Cliches in Film and TV</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/cliches-in-film-and-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/cliches-in-film-and-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/10/26/cliches-in-film-and-tv/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d seen these kicking around the web for some years but this is an expanded list, up to 100 and I think they&#8217;re just great. Things like hackers being able to crack passwords in a few seconds (as if!) or chase scenes on foot in the road where a car screeches to a halt as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ambiguous Photos</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/ambiguous-photos/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/ambiguous-photos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fun]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/07/24/ambiguous-photos/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So is this picture two dancers or the body of a headless woman? This and several other photos show off some signs and logos that you would have thought would have warranted a second look. Mind you the London 2012 Logo is there- and now that I&#8217;ve seen it, yes it does look like Lisa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Field Guide to Moscow</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/filed-guide-to-moscow/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/filed-guide-to-moscow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humour]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/07/05/filed-guide-to-moscow/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The excellent alternative Russian Web Magazine The Exile Exile.ru published an illustrated guide to the type of people you might encounter on the streets of Moscow. These range from impoverished starving soldiers, gangsters wives, art directors, rastas etc over 30 in all. Great descriptions and pictures. I like the Exile though it won&#8217;t suit everyone&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statue Molesters &#8211; Photos of People &amp; Statues</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/statue-molesters-photos-of-people-statues/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/statue-molesters-photos-of-people-statues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/10/15/statue-molesters-photos-of-people-statues/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well there are high-brow websites and cultural ones but then you get something a little less intellectual like this one. The title may be a clue: statue molesters. It&#8217;s a fairly easy concept to explain. Take a statue- the ruder or sillier the better, have somebody pose near it, maybe holding their hands or posture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ban the Comic Sans Typeface (Font)!</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/ban-the-comic-sans-typeface-font/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/ban-the-comic-sans-typeface-font/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 07:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fonts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=247</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Phrase that is bound to baffle French readers &#8216;Bans Comic Sans&#8217; (It translates as &#8220;round of applause comic without&#8221;!) is a protest about the overuse or misuse of the 12 year old Microsoft Font. As they say &#8220;The typeface has been used in countless contexts from restaurant signage to college exams to medical information. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excellent and Different Online Product Store</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/excellent-and-different-online-product-store/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/excellent-and-different-online-product-store/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[30 seconds]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2008/01/19/excellent-and-different-online-product-store/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Link Republished by Blog Post Promoter]]></description>
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		<title>Yaar- It be Talk Like a Pirate Day Again!</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/yaar-it-be-talk-like-a-pirate-day-again/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/yaar-it-be-talk-like-a-pirate-day-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fun]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pirate]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/19/yaar-it-be-talk-like-a-pirate-day-again/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The link on the picture takes you to the UK Talk Like a Pirate Day website, while the bottom link goes to the US one. Maybe we&#8217;ll see other national sites some time e.g. &#8220;Parlez comme un Corsair?&#8221; This annual event exhorts people to talk in the present tense, drop the gs off the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robotic Curtain Privacy</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/robotic-curtain-privacy/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/robotic-curtain-privacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 08:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[invention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1998</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is an excellent video; a camera with motion detection tracks people walking past a window and moves a small piece of curtain (mounted on a motorized curtain rail that&#8217;s controlled by software running on a computer). The curtain moves along with the person so even though it&#8217;s pretty narrow, it stops them seeing in. [...]]]></description>
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