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		<title>CND Aldermaston protest 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got up at 4:30 to blockade the AWE &#8216;nuclear bomb factory&#8217; in Aldermaston. It was cold, some people were arrested, and there was a tent operated by the Oxford branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament which gave out food to the protesters. Protesting makes people hungry, they passed out some excellent organic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1209</link>
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		<title>Children of the state.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been told, and I&#8217;m too lazy to actually look it up; that Trotsky advocated putting all children in the care of the state &#8211; citing that the family as an institution is broken and unfair. If anyone actually has this elusive quote or could back me up, please comment. My best guess is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1128</link>
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		<title>#Oxtuttle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In true fashion my blogging has a little lag that means I blog about things sometimes a week after they occur. Better late than never though, #Oxtuttle is a real-life meetup for social media enthusiasts in Oxford. While I was there I met my next door neighbour, which was weird because I had forgotten they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1120</link>
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		<title>another Prince of Persia game!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday some people came round to play Castle Crashers, we moved on from that to Guitar Hero: World Tour, then to Halo 3&#8217;s Multiplayer, then to Worms 2. In short it was good fun. I was also lent Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones and a Gamecube. Today I tried it out:

You can see from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1108</link>
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		<title>Rivers of truth washing over the land!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I go full rant I should say that I totally understand the upset caused by state propaganda. I&#8217;m writing this in response to a former comrade who clearly flinched at the notion. It offends their libertarian instinct.
I had that same knee-jerk reaction too, now after careful reflection and having read the first few chapters of this book, I&#8217;m reconsidering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1093</link>
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		<title>In defense of Wikipedia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The traditional argument against Wikipedia goes a bit like this:
Wikipedia is a &#8216;web-site&#8217;, on the &#8216;internet&#8217;, I don&#8217;t understand it very well but apparently anyone can contribute to it. And since everyone on the internet is stupid then this &#8216;web-site&#8217; must be full of lies.
Unfortunately the traditional media is full of people who are fearful of what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1076</link>
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		<title>snow</title>
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So far we&#8217;ve had 2 days of school off due to the snow, but it won&#8217;t last which is why I&#8217;m writing this now. I took the opportunity to finish one machinima. Actually that&#8217;s wrong, I didn&#8217;t finish it properly, but I improvised with the footage I had and finished it the best I could.
There was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1063</link>
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		<title>Smash the homophobes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apologies for the spree of posts, I&#8217;ve again picked up on whatever it is that motivates me to write and I&#8217;m running with it. This post is about this story. I know it&#8217;s an old story but I&#8217;ve only just discovered it. The jist of it is that there&#8217;s a law in place to protect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1058</link>
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		<title>the tyranny of word counts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems I&#8217;m on a roll here, I&#8217;m doing 3 posts in one day. It&#8217;s coming at a cost though, I still haven&#8217;t done all the essays that were set over the winter holiday. For the moment I&#8217;m going to rage at something which has bothered me since I tried writing those damned essays: the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1050</link>
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		<title>Bioshock has meaning.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back from my last post I was thinking about design and I remember having played Bioshock this week. I returned and took some pictures:

Apparently the game is a critique Ayn Rand&#8217;s philosophy. I don&#8217;t know Ayn Rand, or her theory of Objectivism. But I gather it has something to do with leaving humans to do what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1039</link>
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		<title>German designers are very cool.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I went to the London Design Museum, it&#8217;s a fairly small place with only three exhibitions. Nevertheless it was educational and I found some quirky facts like that Braun clocks were always kept at 8 minutes past 10 in promotion photos because that&#8217;s the time the hands look most evenly spread. The exhibitions were on the surface just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1036</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m back, and I&#8217;ve played games.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m back from holiday, while the parents went out running I stayed in the Youth Hostel and played Secret of Monkey Island. I clocked up over 6 hours of play time and finished it. I think it&#8217;s the first point-and-click adventure game I&#8217;ve ever completed, the story is engaging and brilliantly simple. The characters are believable and easy to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1026</link>
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		<title>Merry Yuletide!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today it is the 25th of December, and we&#8217;re going off to Derbyshire Staffordshire later on this morning. But before we do, here&#8217;s my vlog on the arguments for piracy:

It took me ten takes, I was using a sheet of notes and after the 6th one I dropped that and wrote out a script. It&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1018</link>
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		<title>&#8230; is crap because</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I found the site http://iscrapbecause.it/ and on it anyone can post reasons they think something or someone is crap. These are my comments:

Left4Dead2 is crap because it is pretty much the same as Left4Dead1.
Killzone 2 is crap because it isn&#8217;t Halo.
Xbox LIVE Gold is crap because it costs £30.
Activision is crap because it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occupationalthoughts.com/archives/1014</link>
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		<title>Cuts for all!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working on this sketch in ten-minute spurts for about a week now. I wanted to use the same iconography of capitalism on the flag that was displayed by the Clan Destined in this video and this post. It&#8217;s pretty self explanatory really, oh and the background is the London stock exchange.

The image is [...]]]></description>
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