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    Are You Publishing An Ebook In 2012? [Resources]

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    Reading too close can cause eye irritation and occasionally patriotic lasers

    It wouldn’t be the end of the year in media without a twitterstream clogged with trends, predictions and ‘Top 7′ lists. Probably the biggest one to impact the behaviours and aspirations of our magical internets is to do with publishing. Basically it’s fucked. Don’t argue. we have been here before a few times. But...

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    4 Apocalypse Hacks The Germans Taught Me

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    And yet tube fares still rose in 2012.

    You have a slightly better than 50% chance of surviving a plane crash based on 2010 figures. But that’s only if you know what to do. The single best thing you can do is climb over the seats. Ignore “the row of lights” that will “illuminate the cabin in the event of an emergency.”...

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    How God Is Like Antibiotics

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    Taken at Saint Michael's Mount in Cornwall last year

    Do you ever wonder what the historical precedent is for the magical internets? Try and cast your mind back to a time where sincere seekers from across the planet could come together to engage, swap ideas, benchmark and -every so often- go kinda completely insane. It’s the geographic diversity that potentially sets it apart...

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    Anatomy Of A Firefly

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    Little boxes on the hillside

    Fun fact: Giza sits at the cross section of the most land anywhere on earth. The north-south axis (31 degrees east of Greenwich) is the longest land meridian, and the east-west axis (30 degrees north) is the longest land parallel on the globe. This post’s draft -which I have been tinkering with for a...

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