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><channel><title>The Spicy Cauldron</title> <atom:link href="http://spicycauldron.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://spicycauldron.com</link> <description>since 2004 // lots of hocus, pocus and abracadabra</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:54:40 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1</generator> <item><title>Dear BBC Radio 4, say what?</title><link>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/08/24/dear-bbc-radio-4-say-what/</link> <comments>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/08/24/dear-bbc-radio-4-say-what/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:48:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Spicy Cauldron</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Opinions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[bankers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BBC Radio 4]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Beeb]]></category> <category><![CDATA[blame]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Daily Mail]]></category> <category><![CDATA[jobs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Radio 4]]></category> <category><![CDATA[right-wing press]]></category> <category><![CDATA[scapegoating]]></category> <category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://spicycauldron.com/?p=6671</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dear BBC Radio 4, please note that when I&#8217;m listening in via an application on my iPhone and hear a presenter inform the world that &#8220;later we&#8217;ll be discussing whether graduates are doing enough to find work&#8221;, I&#8217;m afraid I do have a rather alarming inclination to (a) throw my iPhone a very long way away from my person in anger and disgust, only held back from doing so because I like my iPhone and it cost a lot of money, and (b) to personally head down to wherever the presenter is and give the undoubtedly middle-class, well-off man not <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://spicycauldron.com/?p=6668</guid> <description><![CDATA[Even orange girls have feelings despite their short white skirts in which they move like raptors Even orange girls have feelings They feel the switch, the knife, they scheme, they fight, they curse Even orange girls have feelings She was walking in the soft dull rain bleeding from her made-up eyes two streams of white upon her face. Related Posts:Poem // The Old Lady Girls Baby Jane Hudson, they called her. She never did grow up, her hair still styled like she was 12, in pig tails with ribbons and bows. Mrs Haversham, they called... Poem // Sacred Circle, Late <a
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href='http://spicycauldron.com/2010/06/29/poem-the-old-lady-girl/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Poem // The Old Lady Girls'>Poem // The Old Lady Girls</a> <small>Baby Jane Hudson, they called her. She never did grow up, her hair still styled like she was 12, in pig tails with ribbons and bows. Mrs Haversham, they called...</small></li><li><a
href='http://spicycauldron.com/2010/08/10/poem-sacred-circle-late-of-time/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Poem // Sacred Circle, Late of Time'>Poem // Sacred Circle, Late of Time</a> <small>You brought it on yourselves, cried the rain. I told you I was hot, said the sun. You wouldn&#8217;t listen, not to us, howled the wind. I ate your dead,...</small></li><li><a
href='http://spicycauldron.com/2010/02/14/poem-valentine-wonder/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Poem // Valentine Wonder'>Poem // Valentine Wonder</a> <small>I turn back the blankets every day to marvel at your conquering form. You are my sky. The sun is shining. Upon the warm geography of flesh fingers and my...</small></li></ol>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/08/23/poem-even-orange-girls-have-feelings/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Facebook Places: nothing new, just a copy &#8211; but dangerous all the same</title><link>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/08/19/facebook-places-nothing-new-just-a-copy-but-dangerous-all-the-same/</link> <comments>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/08/19/facebook-places-nothing-new-just-a-copy-but-dangerous-all-the-same/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:36:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Spicy Cauldron</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Cogs, Sprockets and Doo-dahs]]></category> <category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opinions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category> <category><![CDATA[burglars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[civil liberties]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Facebook Places]]></category> <category><![CDATA[FourSquare]]></category> <category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GPS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[location services]]></category> <category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[privacy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[profiling]]></category> <category><![CDATA[social networks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[stalkers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[targeted advertising]]></category> <category><![CDATA[tracking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Twitter]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://spicycauldron.com/?p=6665</guid> <description><![CDATA[Facebook Places was announced yesterday by the world&#8217;s biggest time-wasting, life-sucking website. It&#8217;s nothing new, following in the footsteps of FourSquare and other start-ups offering us the means to tell everyone in the world where we are, easily and dangerously, right down to the table we&#8217;re eating our lunch at. I&#8217;ve dabbled with FourSquare for several weeks now, and just can&#8217;t buy into it the way I did, for a time, with Twitter and Facebook. My enthusiasm for all these social networking tools has cooled somewhat of late, thanks to my becoming increasingly aware of just how much we&#8217;re all <a
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href='http://spicycauldron.com/2009/11/24/why-do-people-pay-for-friends-and-followers-on-facebook-and-twitter/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Why do people pay for friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter?'>Why do people pay for friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter?</a> <small>Why on earth do some people buy friends and followers on Facebook and Twitter? I say friends, but of course I don&#8217;t really mean friends at all when money has...</small></li><li><a
href='http://spicycauldron.com/2010/01/07/is-the-fall-of-facebook-imminent/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Is the fall of Facebook imminent?'>Is the fall of Facebook imminent?</a> <small>A number of factors are involved in asking this question. Of late the media seems to have much to say about Facebook&#8216;s invasive nature. It&#8217;s getting everywhere, from you being...</small></li></ol>]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/08/19/facebook-places-nothing-new-just-a-copy-but-dangerous-all-the-same/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Meat grown in vats by 2050, says UK scientist</title><link>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/08/16/meat-grown-in-vats-by-2050-says-uk-scientist/</link> <comments>http://spicycauldron.com/2010/08/16/meat-grown-in-vats-by-2050-says-uk-scientist/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:54:51 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Spicy Cauldron</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Cats and Chickens and Other Animals]]></category> <category><![CDATA[In the News]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opinions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[artificial meat]]></category> <category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category> <category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dependency culture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[genetic modification]]></category> <category><![CDATA[GM food]]></category> <category><![CDATA[overpopulation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[population control]]></category> <category><![CDATA[science]]></category> <category><![CDATA[self-sufficiency]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://spicycauldron.com/?p=6650</guid> <description><![CDATA[In the 1970s film Soylent Green it&#8217;s people themselves who are turned into food to keep a future population from starvation. Now we&#8217;re having artificial meat promoted as a way to feed the ever-expanding global population by 2050, and that&#8217;s not a movie script&#8212;it&#8217;s a serious proposal by the UK government&#8217;s chief scientist, John Beddington. Advocating artificial meat production doesn&#8217;t address the real issues. The human population cannot keep growing on a world that is finite. Vegetarianism and veganism are far more practical responses to the emissions and food crises of today and tomorrow, although even predominantly herbivorous diets can <a
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href='http://spicycauldron.com/2009/10/28/meaties-and-veggies-who-serve-up-poison-are-not-the-change-makers-we-need/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Meaties and veggies who serve up poison are not the change-makers we need'>Meaties and veggies who serve up poison are not the change-makers we need</a> <small>If I had as much passion for onions, peppers and potatoes as some meat-eaters have for bacon, chicken and beef, and was as upset and angry about not getting carrots...</small></li><li><a
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isPermaLink="false">http://spicycauldron.com/?p=6575</guid> <description><![CDATA[Ah, Americans of a Republican and/or evangelical Christian mindset (the two usually go together): if this is what freedom means to you, you can take it and shove it up your asses. What a progressive, enlightened and responsible image you present to the rest of the world. Freedom indeed. The freedom to crush under your jack-boots all those who think differently, act differently, believe different things, hold different values. The freedom to be ignorant, violent, oppressive pigs. Funnily enough&#8212;actually, not funnily at all&#8212;just like Al-Qaeda: seeing violence as a tool, seeing others unlike you as the enemy. As a nation <a
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isPermaLink="false">http://spicycauldron.com/?p=6551</guid> <description><![CDATA[He couldn’t afford an iPhone, none of his friends could. His was a pay as you go mobile, Web-enabled, as they all are these days. YouTube he liked. He was wearing what he always wore, blue tracksuit bottoms with white stripes, expensive trainers he got for Christmas, a cheap t-shirt made from thin white cotton showing off his Eminem-style tattoos. He lived in a sheep-heavy market town where nothing ever happened and dreamed of cities, guns, drugs, big-breasted bitches and Grand Theft Auto for real. The music blared out from one tiny speaker, monophonic and tinny at the back of <a
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href='http://spicycauldron.com/2010/07/31/poem-i-want/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Poem // I Want'>Poem // I Want</a> <small>I want a computer that&#8217;s as flat as a pancake and can be rolled up, just like a newspaper. I want a 3D television as wide as my house, and...</small></li><li><a
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isPermaLink="false">http://spicycauldron.com/?p=6470</guid> <description><![CDATA[The folks at Engadget have posted rumoured details of the next-gen Apple TV. Among the unsubstantiated rumours that the entire article is composed of, is the declaration that Apple is to rename the re-engineered device the iTV. Much unintended hilarity and tunnel vision among Americans has ensued in the article&#8217;s comments section, with UK readers rightly scoffing some of the Yankee declarations that can only be made by people who are absolutely rock-solid certain of Apple having god-like powers to just take over the name of a major British terrestrial TV broadcaster that has been in operation since the 1950s. <a
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