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	<title>nathan @ big ideas</title>
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		<title>London&#8217;s ears are burning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm browsing an old Rough Guide to London left on our bookshelves by someone I can't remember who passed through London and our flat. There is something pleasurable about reading guidebooks when not travelling, and reading one about your home is like surreptitiously listening in on a conversation about yourself. ]]></description>
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		<title>Get hooked up with a Greek</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kind of like a philosophical dating agency, this system from Mark Vernon finds your perfect match in ancient Greek philosophy. I&#8217;ve been matched with Zeno of Citium who, given the stoic suspicion of the emotions and vice, I think might be a bit of a drag of a date&#8230;
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		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/nathan/2009/10/18/get-hooked-up-with-a-greek/</link>
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		<title>The book-free library</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm sitting in the new Shepherds Bush Library. Modern libraries don't really do books. Books are certainly knocking around the place, but you get the sense that they serve as waiting room literature rather than the core purpose of the place.]]></description>
		<link>http://bigi.org.uk/nathan/2009/09/07/the-book-free-library/</link>
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