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		<title>Inviting Strangers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[@GreatDismal I don&#8217;t invent characters. I invite strangers. Out of my subconscious. Then cut them slack, to see what they&#8217;ll do.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/inviting-strangers/</link>
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		<title>Never Let Me Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kazuo Ishiguro&#8217;s novel, Never Let Me Go, is brilliantly paced to slowly reveal the truth about the characters and their world. The film may be similarly well-paced but it hardly seems to matter. Everything is revealed (and explicitly stated) in the trailer. Who makes these things? How many layers of approval do they go through? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/never-let-me-know/</link>
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		<title>Broken Key</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came home for lunch today, put my key in the lock, and it snapped off about a centimetre and a half  from the tip. It was a shock but, with hindsight, not so surprising. It was more than ten years old and the lock is a bit dodgy. It needs a bit of jingling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/broken-key/</link>
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		<title>iOS 4 User Dictionary: Not What it Seems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something that I&#8217;ve not seen mentioned accurately in any reviews is the appearance of an &#8220;Edit User Dictionary&#8221; option in the Keyboard Settings. It appears if a Japanese or Chinese &#8211; Pinyin keyboard is selected. Many people, seeing it, have assumed that it is a way to add words to the auto-correction or spelling dictionary. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/ios4-user-dictionary/</link>
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		<title>Spell Checking on the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The auto-correction feature on the iPhone still amazes me. I can blaze away with both thumbs and ninety percent of the time it will correctly guess what I&#8217;m trying to type. I&#8217;ve been tapping away at little mobile screens for a decade now and have never felt so comfortable inputting text. The iPad and iOS [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/spell-checking-ipad/</link>
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		<title>Dead Channels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading the end of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s &#8216;Neverwhere&#8217; last night when I noticed a hat tip to William Gibson. As Richard Mayhew emerges from London Below he sees: The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel. It&#8217;s an echo of the first line of William Gibson&#8217;s &#8216;Neuromancer&#8217;: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/dead-channels/</link>
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		<title>The Only Thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[@JerryThomasIt&#8217;s reached the point where Attention Deficit Disorder is like the only thing I ever think about any more.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/the-only-thing/</link>
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		<title>Elements Of Twitter Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Red Sweater Blog – Elements Of Twitter StyleI have strong opinions about what works well on Twitter, and what doesn’t. I decided I would start writing down these opinions so that I can easily reference them in the future. This advice is as much a memorandum to myself as to any readers who might feel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/elements-of-twitter-style/</link>
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		<title>Lost Finale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I managed to avoid finding out anything about Season Five of Lost before it was released here in Japan. I hope I will be as lucky with Season Six. I have a feeling that, now that it has ended, people will be more likely to talk about it. I&#8217;ve already had to click away from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/lost-finale/</link>
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		<title>Pitchfork: Galaxie 500</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pitchfork: Articles: Temperature&#8217;s Rising: Galaxie 500Damon Krukowski: It was an adventure from the start. I think every band experiences that same thrill&#8211; it&#8217;s like joining the circus. Before reading this oral history of Galaxie 500 I really had no idea how strained things were in the group. I kind of wish I could go back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/pitchfork-galaxie-500/</link>
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		<title>Cold cut combo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[@nevenmrgan: This cold cut combo is perhaps the best encapsulation of the difference in philosophy between Android and the iPhone.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/cold-cut-combo/</link>
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		<title>Pay what you want bakery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New Panera location says pay what you want &#8211; Food Inc.- msnbc.com: &#8220;The national bakery and restaurant chain launched a new nonprofit store here this week that has the same menu as its other 1,400 locations. But the prices are a little different — there aren&#8217;t any. Customers are told to donate what they want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/pay-what-you-want-bakery/</link>
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		<title>43F: Dreams, Ambitions, and Star Wars Sheets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Watching the Corners: On Future-Proofing Your Passion &#124; 43 Folders: &#8220;To my mind, ‘success’ in the real world is much more the equivalent of achieving a new personal best; it’s not about whether you won the ‘Springtime in Springﬁeld SunnyD®/Q105™ 5k FunRun for Entitilitus,’ and got a little ribbon with a gold crest on it.&#8221; This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/43f-dreams-ambitions-and-star-wars-sheets/</link>
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		<title>Forget about &#8220;may&#8221;. Let&#8217;s ask &#8220;why&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a dodgy link. The actual headline of the linked piece is &#8220;Japan may pick robots over immigrants&#8221;. Now the link on the front page is &#8220;Why Japan prefers robots to immigrants&#8221;.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/this-is-journalism/</link>
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		<title>Japan may pick robots over immigrants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BBC News &#8211; Japan may pick robots over immigrants: This could have been an informative piece about the challenges facing foreign care-workers in Japan but someone got the idea to tack on some nonsense about robots. It&#8217;s a nice, sensational, headline but I&#8217;m a bit worried that they couldn&#8217;t find any elderly Japanese to actually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/japan-may-pick-robots-over-immigrants/</link>
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		<title>Little Miss Sunshine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just watched Little Miss Sunshine and fell back in love with America. I had the idea that it was a PG feel-good thing. Certainly wasn&#8217;t PG and it was feel-good only after a lot of feel-bad stuff; really funny feel-bad stuff. I watched American Beauty again a couple of weeks ago and was terribly disappointed. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/little-miss-sunshine/</link>
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		<title>Happiness Theorems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lists of things to do or not to do in order to be happy, healthy, wealthy, a good father, a successful beekeeper and so on are spread thickly across the surface of internet. I like this one though. Wish I&#8217;d known this when I was twenty. Happiness Theorems: &#8220;Do not spend energy criticizing the source [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/happiness-theorems/</link>
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		<title>Crystalline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[@scottsimpson &#8220;Delicate crystalline growth on the Häagen-Dazs, you are my Fortress of Solitude.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/crystalline/</link>
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		<title>Ineptitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[@dmoren: &#8220;Any sufficiently advanced ineptitude is indistinguishable from malice.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smnevans.com/ineptitude/</link>
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		<title>Meeting Pavement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago I sneaked backstage and had a few beers with Malk and crew.]]></description>
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