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	<title>The View from the Spaghetti Factory &#187; Consumer</title>
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		<title>Pete Townshend &#8211; John Peel lecture</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/11/townshend-lecture</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[6music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pete Townshend gave the inaugural John Peel Lecture yesterday. I was initially rather surprised by the choice of Townshend. Peel, it seems to me, stood for the fearless exploration of new music and the blurring of the received boundaries between &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2011/11/townshend-lecture">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m so angry with a brewery</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/10/angry-with-michael-turner</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/10/angry-with-michael-turner#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food/Drink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CSR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cuts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fuller's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Osborne]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I could burble about the disastrously regressive nature of the George Osborne&#8217;s Comprehensive Spending Review, the misrepresentation of how the economy got in this state and the lies behind the &#8220;all in this together&#8221; line. But I won&#8217;t. Lots of &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/10/angry-with-michael-turner">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook lies</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/08/facebook-lies</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/08/facebook-lies#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drivel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friend finder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose we already know that they like to play fast and loose with our personal data, so it&#8217;s not surprising that a few people have been noticing something like this recently&#8230; Er, no I haven&#8217;t! It&#8217;s hardly worth getting &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/08/facebook-lies">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The end of cheap booze?</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/06/alcohol-unit-pricing</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/06/alcohol-unit-pricing#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food/Drink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unit price]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/?p=794</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t claim to have any revolutionary suggestions for combatting our supposed descent into alcoholic oblivion, but I&#8217;m not sure that minimum unit pricing is the answer. Using price controls to affect people&#8217;s behaviour is going to be unpredictable when &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2010/06/alcohol-unit-pricing">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Streamlining the UK, one plug at a time&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/07/flatten-uk-plu</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/07/flatten-uk-plu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spaghetti-factory.co.uk/?p=446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the &#8220;improve our lives by addressing the mundane and everyday&#8221; department&#8230; Folding Design Flattens the Fatty UK Plug (Gizmodo) That&#8217;s just totally wonderful. The whole design is impressive, but the Big Grin Moment for me is when the folded &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/07/flatten-uk-plu">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Spotify on the go!</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/05/spotify-mobile</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/05/spotify-mobile#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 23:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spaghetti-factory.co.uk/?p=428</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As a huge fan of Spotify, I couldn&#8217;t help letting out a little squeak of excitement at the news of a forthcoming mobile version. But then the cold light of rationality hits me and I wonder how practical this is &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/05/spotify-mobile">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What are you doing now? TELL US!</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/04/statebook</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/04/statebook#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spaghetti-factory.co.uk/?p=400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[File under &#8220;funny but actually really serious&#8221;, this is required reading for Facebook users&#8230; Statebook]]></description>
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		<title>Gumtree users &#8211; be careful out there</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/03/gumtree-scam</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/03/gumtree-scam#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gumtree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/?p=1557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sort of half-heartedly looking for a secondhand Mac Pro, in order to futureproof my setup a little bit. The next version of OS X will apparently be Intel-only, as are several nice-looking apps, and my Mac is a pre-Intel &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/03/gumtree-scam">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Drinkers to join smokers in leper colony</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/02/liver-transplant</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/02/liver-transplant#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spaghetti-factory.co.uk/?p=360</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know the protesting parties referred to in this Observer story are more worried about actual alcoholics rather than people who just like to enjoy the odd tipple and damn the consequences, but still&#8230; remind me, just how much are &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/02/liver-transplant">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghost Bus</title>
		<link>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/01/the-ghost-bus</link>
		<comments>http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/01/the-ghost-bus#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adrian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Transport]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spaghetti-factory.co.uk/?p=326</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another year, another set of above-inflation railway fare increases. This has now become so predictable, I can barely bring myself to comment or even pay attention. Luckily, there&#8217;s a far more interesting symbol of our bloated, profiteering, bullshit-driven privatised transport &#8230; <a href="http://blog.sfocata.co.uk/2009/01/the-ghost-bus">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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