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		<title>30 Years Ago- the Golden Record in Space</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[30 Years ago, a Golden Record was created and put on The Voyager 1 and 2 Probes. These are now a very long way away from Earth- a shade under 10 billion miles which is a pretty long way. The Voyager Golden Record is a phonograph record that contains sounds and images selected to portray [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enid Blyton Online Bookshop and Tribute</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enid Blyton was a very popular author whose work attracted a bit of controversy in the 50s and 60s but despite that she is ranked as the 5th most prolific author worldwide- she wrote over 800 books at an average daily speed of 10,000 words. Her work has many fans today and of course she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gadsby &#8211; a 50,000 Word Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most commonly occurring letter in English is the letter e, followed I think by a and t or possibly t then a. Writing anything major, i.e. a novel of some 50,000 words without using the letter e is I imagine an arduous (see below!) but not impossible task as the author, one Ernest Vincent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone App Review &#8211; All Shakespeare&#8217;s Works (Free)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>PLOS- making medical and scientific knowledge freely available.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 21:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are living in interesting times and people who in the past acted as gatekeepers to information are finding it a little harder these days. In the past and present, medical and scientific literature is produced by scientists etc submitting papers. These are peer reviewed and if approved are published. They tend to be expensive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zoomii &#8211; A Virtual Bookshop You can Browse</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a very clever bit of Flash programming. In fact the whole thing is pretty good. Normally when you look for books online you search rather than browse. It&#8217;s a way of life- Amazon have a couple of million books so how could you possibly browse them? Well Canadian Chris Thiessen has worked out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project Gutenberg- Oldest Repository of E-Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 07:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is probably one of the oldest as it originated back in my 2nd year at school in 1971. Michael Hart was given a lot of free (and very expensive back then) computer time and decided to try and store everything that could be stored electronically (and out of copyright). So the concept pre-dates the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German Book on Art in Nature on Flickr</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 11:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/08/23/german-book-on-art-in-nature-on-flickr/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kunst-Formen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), by Ernst Haeckel, 1898 is now in the public domain (probably has been for a long time) . This is a wonderful book, which features all sorts of illustrations of the natural world. If you&#8217;re doing some research for organic shapes, this book is a nice place to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ficlets &#8211; Collaborative Short Stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you like writing but don&#8217;t want to spend years writing novels etc, why not have a go at ficlets? A ficlet is a very short story, between 64 and 1024 characters long. It&#8217;s collaborative in that anyone else can add a prequel or sequel so you&#8217;ll probably never know where it starts or ends. [...]]]></description>
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