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		<title>In Praise of Powerpoint</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I sat through about 15 presentations, and in the x 100th of them, the powerpoint failed. Just stopped working. It was a disaster for everyone concerned, not least of the concerned being the master&#8217;s student whose grade depended on getting the software working again[1]. As the crash came down, I realized that actually Powerpoint [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4267930&amp;post=1930&amp;subd=faustusnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Magic of the Hajj</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The campaign setting I am currently playing in, Punjar, has a vaguely middle Eastern subtext, with the city of our adventures presented as a chaotic, slightly exotic free state of souks and temples, such as western readers might associate with somewhere in pre-modern Oman or Turkey. While gaming there I try to hold in my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4267930&amp;post=1926&amp;subd=faustusnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sex Work and Modern Feminism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing my series of posts on sex work, public health and feminism, I turn my attention now to the modern feminist response to sex work. First I&#8217;ll outline a common strand in modern feminist responses to sex work and pornography, which I think it should be pretty obvious contrast with the public health approach I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4267930&amp;post=1917&amp;subd=faustusnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charlie Brooker Goes to Japan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Brooker, the British screenwriter, zombie reality TV expert and culture commentator for the Guardian, is doing a series of articles on Japan. I wouldn&#8217;t usually care but I quite like Charlie Brooker&#8217;s style of criticism, usually directed at television culture, which is ascerbic and filthy but also well educated and very fond of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4267930&amp;post=1914&amp;subd=faustusnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playing 4e Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I joined a new gaming group on Sunday, for 9 hours of slaughter with a group of blood-drinking, delusional toad-wranglers such as would bring disgrace on the name Dungeons and Dragons were their antics to become commonly known. My PC is a 3rd level human rogue called Shinan, a freelance negotiator for the various thieves&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4267930&amp;post=1911&amp;subd=faustusnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sex Work and Public Health in the Modern Era</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing my series of posts on sex work, public health and radical feminism, this post will attempt to describe the public health issues surrounding modern sex work, and some common public health responses to it. For the most part I will be talking about developed nations; for a variety of reasons, different conditions pertain in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4267930&amp;post=1909&amp;subd=faustusnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Post-colonial Rewriting of Lord of the Rings?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once ran a campaign in the Fourth Age of Middle Earth, shortly after the war of the ring during the period when it could be reasonably imagined that elves were still present in Middle Earth, and the kingdom of Gondor was still recovering from the war. I imagined that this would be a fairly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4267930&amp;post=1907&amp;subd=faustusnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Carter, a Mary Sue of Mars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started reading John Carter of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, in anticipation of what looks like a very fun movie, but I have to say that even though the story is interesting the writing is absolutely appalling. It&#8217;s classic Mary Sue, with a character who is just better than everyone else at everything and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4267930&amp;post=1903&amp;subd=faustusnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gothic Lolita Rock Event</title>
		<link>http://faustusnotes.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/gothic-lolita-rock-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>faustusnotes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday I went to a Gothic Lolita live rock event, run by a la mode Tokyo, a gothic lolita night club organizer (they don&#8217;t seem to have any kind of web presence that I can find, though they seem to be connected to this group and can be found on Artism). This seems to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4267930&amp;post=1888&amp;subd=faustusnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Kokushicho</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">Elupia</media:title>
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		<title>Current Viewing: Mouse Sumo</title>
		<link>http://faustusnotes.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/current-viewing-mouse-sumo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I visited the Studio Ghibli Museum for the first time. It&#8217;s in Mitaka, Tokyo, close to my home, and is a museum about the development of animation in Japan, through the eyes of Miyazaki Hayao and the Studio Ghibli team. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Ghibli, they are the creators of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=faustusnotes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4267930&amp;post=1884&amp;subd=faustusnotes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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