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	<description>heartstarters for the hungry mind</description>
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		<title>Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Haiti has been a hellhole for centuries, and even now its neighbours are merciless in their meddling.  A neat explanation of the historical mess is here.
&#8220;or Haiti, this is history repeated. As historians have documented, the impoverishment of Haiti began in the earliest decades of its independence, when Haiti&#8217;s slaves and free gens de [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barista.media2.org/?p=3757</link>
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		<title>old pots, dead cats and new routines</title>
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I have now sunk to the point where the last post features a picture of a dead cat, and I felt for a moment that it could be a great last full stop. 
The truth is, I have had both nothing to say and too much to write about. I want to explore  Stolen, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barista.media2.org/?p=3743</link>
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		<title>here kitty</title>
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The Scientific American has an intriguing article about the origin of cats, when they first arrived at the human hearth, and why they show such a small amount of genetic diversity.
Without windows and doors, early humans were unable to keep their domestic cats from interbreeding as they chose. And in so doing, the cat was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barista.media2.org/?p=3738</link>
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		<title>VCA gone in a puff of smoke</title>
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This is a photograph of Adam Elliott with the Oscar he won for Harvie Krumpet, with Melanie Coombs as producer. He was a graduate of the animation program in the Victorian College of the Arts Film and Television School, taught by the likes of Sarah Watt, an internationally respected animator who has gone on to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barista.media2.org/?p=3735</link>
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		<title>welcome to a medieval economy</title>
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Straight from a Crooked Timber comment: the horror show that is the British economy, with wit and clarity. 
John Lanchester.
And the equivalent piece on the Australian economy is&#8230;. where? 
(blatant copyright theft here: the image comes from a lovely photostream of The Labours of the Months, a fresco cycle in the Swiss village of Ronco [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barista.media2.org/?p=3733</link>
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		<title>And God said, &#8216;let there be trash&#8217; and lo, there was television</title>
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The Ida Missing Link story, whch is creating a certain media excitement at the moment, is an evolutionary fable of a different kind for the television industry. Driven by Darwinian competition, television companies have evolved a bizarre hybrid in which documentary networks pump resources into scientific research, which are arranged as sparkly stories. These in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barista.media2.org/?p=3731</link>
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		<title>bad smash in sbs playpen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(image from Lars Klove for The New York Times)
Last Tuesday night, the Federal government relieved the besieged fortress of Australian public broadcasting with a modest wagon train of supplies.  This  moment will remembered for a long time, alongside the Fraser razor gang attack on the ABC, the creation of SBS, the first Howard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barista.media2.org/?p=3727</link>
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		<title>from Panglossian to Chagossian &#8211; the &#8216;right to mass trespass&#8217;</title>
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The Chagossians are one of those multicultural communities that accrete from enterprising survivors of colonial labour, which swept up indigenous people, convicts, slaves, traders, travellers, pirates, fugitives and mercenaries. They have a romantic story, since they ended up in a remote paradise &#8211; the Chagos Islands, ribs of land between lagoon and sea which barely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barista.media2.org/?p=3725</link>
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		<title>ABC on the net &#8211; inside looking out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ABC Innovation has published a broadband site about Gallipoli, which I wrote about for Screen Hub. Here we go&#8230;.
The online documentary has had a chequered history in Australia. Is it an insane idea, a bastard child of television, the future of the medium, or a bunch of pointless toys for lonely losers? The ABC reaches [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barista.media2.org/?p=3723</link>
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		<title>blackberry blahs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a technology problem. I have been using a Palm Tungsten, bluetoothed to a 3G Nokia, to run my work phone stuff. All hotsynched to my computer, where I use the Palm desktop to track my contacts. A bit clumsy, because the Palm stylus system tends to be iffy as my little friend ages. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://barista.media2.org/?p=3721</link>
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