Beautiful Postmodern Architecture Around The World #2: Road Trip Through China

In China, even soulless industrial centre of Shenzhen teems with more notable buildings than most flourishing cultural centres. My current favourite is the 262 m Shenzhen Special Zone Press Tower

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Traveling Softly One Winter's Night - Italo Calvino / Epiphanie Bloom

Original text from 'If On a Winter's Night A Traveler': You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. concentrate. Dispel

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What Makes For Quality Translation? Is 2nd Gen English Translation A Good Idea?

I find it very interesting that we only have access to one person's translation with most texts. I think the translator's role should be a lot more publicised, and their

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Why Aren't Things Changing? Reinventing Avril Lavigne's 'Mobile'

The chorus for 'Mobile' goes: Everything's Cha-nging/ When I Turn Aro-o-ound/ (All Out Of My Control/ I'm A Mobile/) Here's my version: Why Aren't Things Changing Whenever I Turn Around

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Why Are Heterosexuals Marginalised By Current Marriage Laws?

In reaffirming marriage as a heterosexual-only institution, heterosexuals only continue to marginalise their sexual preference by limiting their ability to grow and expand their understanding of love, sexuality and commitment

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Postmodernists On Jerry Springer

This hilarious parody of JS was brought to you courtesy of http://home.tiac.net/~cri/1999/springer.html Postmodernists on Jerry Springer Todd: Hi, Jerry. Jerry: (reading from card) So, Todd, you're here to tell your

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Films To Watch Out For

Bored with the current cinematic releases? Here's a few movies that have perked me up of late. 1. Zodiac David Fincher (Fight Club, Panic Room, Se7en), starring Jake Gyllenhaal (Jarhead

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Repetition Without Poetry: Bush Stays The Course In Unimaginative Dogma

You wouldn't know that there's more to life than winning or losing if you were listening to President George W. Bush: "As a matter of fact, the benchmarks will make

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Reinventing Dubai: The Future of the World's Tallest Buildings

Did you know that what is to be the world's tallest building (beginning at ground level) is being created in Dubai at this very moment? It's due to be completed

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Beautiful Postmodern Architecture From Around The World #1

What better introduction to postmodern architecture than a collection of some of the finest examples thereof? From Los Angeles, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry From Sydney

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The Enlightening Gibberish Mechanism

Here is a snippet of an essay generated by http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo: The Absurdity of Context: Expressionism and the neotextual paradigm of expression 1. Expressions of dialectic In the works of Madonna

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