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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sam Jennings on <em>Pet Sounds</em> at 60. It starts as criticism—Spector’s “little symphonies for the kids”, Wilson’s panic the first time he heard the Beatles, the instrument list that runs from French horns to Coke cans—and then fades into a memoir, “I Just Wasn’t Made for These Times” reprising itself across different years, different places, different girls.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Kyle Paoletta on Adam Szetela’s <em>That Book Is Dangerous!</em>, which charts the rise of the sensitivity reader and the publishing industry’s habit of capitulating to whichever online faction shouts loudest. Szetela’s position is that it all works as cover for an industry that won’t address its own class problem.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An interesting-looking music social networking app. The feature set is what I have long thought Last.fm should build. I like the idea a lot, but I manage my listening queue via Albums (the iOS app), my stats live in Last.fm, I post reviews on my blog, and none of my friends are there. Should any of those things change, I’ll look again.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ian Penman in the LRB on Peter Doggett’s <em>Surf’s Up</em>, the latest entry in the ever-expanding Beach Boys archive. I’m currently working through David Leaf’s <em>God Only Knows</em>, which covers a lot of the same ground: the abusers and exploiters around Brian, the scarcely believable transformation from novelty pop to <em>Pet Sounds</em>, the apocryphal nature of every retelling.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Six core emotions at the centre (after Willcox), English sub-emotions around them, and an outer ring drawing on forty-odd other languages—saudade, mono no aware, and a couple of hundred more—each positioned near the feeling it most closely neighbours. The premise that naming a feeling more precisely expands what you’re capable of feeling is a nice one, even if unfalsifiable.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A small tool for pulling things out of the algorithms and into a reader. I already route most of my reading through RSS, so the appeal is obvious: fewer apps, no algorithm, one inbox. Whether the feeds hold up long-term is the usual question with these services (platforms tend to notice eventually) but for now it’s a neat way to follow a handful of people on Instagram without opening Instagram.]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:9a8a8b48728b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:rss"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://sixdegreesofhiphop.com/">
    <title>Six Degrees of Hip-Hop</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-19T09:46:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://sixdegreesofhiphop.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An interactive force-directed graph of every major connection in hip-hop (collaborations, beefs, label signings, mentorships) covering 300-odd artists, producers and labels from 1984 to now. Click an artist to see their web. Toggle Beef Mode to watch the map light up with grievance. Or use the Six Degrees tool to find the shortest path between any two figures (Lil Peep to Jay-Z is the example they suggest, which tells you something about the sensibility).]]></description>
<dc:subject>music hiphop visualisation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:ade1d1baedb2/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://no01.substack.com/p/farming-101?r=ub8b&amp;triedRedirect=true">
    <title>Farming 101</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-14T18:28:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://no01.substack.com/p/farming-101?r=ub8b&amp;triedRedirect=true</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Opens in full prepper register (Strait of Hormuz, fertiliser shocks, food prices coming for you in 6 to 18 months) and I nearly stopped reading. But once the doom clears, it turns into a genuinely useful primer on growing at home from seed: what to start indoors, what goes straight in the ground in April, why soil matters more than anything else, and the unromantic economics of a £3 tomato packet. I grow a fair bit from seed myself—herbs, tomatoes, courgettes, strawberries, even purple cauliflower this year—and there’s something to the argument that you get to enjoy more of nature’s lifecycle this way, rather than the garden-centre-to-windowsill-to-compost-bin shortcut. Worth it if you’re thinking about planting anything this year.]]></description>
<dc:subject>gardening economics food agriculture supply-chain</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:66a848665a78/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:supply-chain"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://nmsceefax.co.uk/">
    <title>NMS Ceefax</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-13T10:46:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://nmsceefax.co.uk/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A fully working Ceefax service, kept up to date with real news, weather, sport and TV listings, viewable through an interactive on-screen remote that behaves exactly as you remember. Nathan Dane has been building this since 2015; what started as a home-broadcast hobby in his attic grew into custom PHP scrapers, hand-soldered VBIT-Pi inserter boards, and eventually a YouTube stream of Pages From Ceefax decoded through period-correct hardware. Page 302 for the football.]]></description>
<dc:subject>teletext news technology</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:92f22134ba8b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:news"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://wikicity.app/">
    <title>WikiCity</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-13T10:42:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://wikicity.app/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Reid Lewis has built a 3D city out of the 100,000 most-viewed Wikipedia articles from the past year: every building an article, every floor a pageview count. It's inspired by Samuel Rizzo's GitCity, which does the same trick for repositories. You can click buildings to open the article, or—naturally—fly around in a little plane and blow them up.]]></description>
<dc:subject>wikipedia data visualisation maps</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:50942fd8214f/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/technology-mental-fitness-cognitive.html">
    <title>There’s a Good Reason You Can’t Concentrate</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-12T16:11:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/technology-mental-fitness-cognitive.html</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cal Newport argues that just as diet and exercise became cultural common sense in a generation, we need a similar shift around “mental fitness” by treating sustained attention as something to train rather than concede. The framing is useful, though it covers ground Nicholas Carr mapped fifteen years ago in “The Shallows” (the net as “an interruption system, a machine geared for dividing attention”). I am unsure whether a fitness-style cultural shift can actually take hold when the incentives of every device in your pocket run the other way.]]></description>
<dc:subject>attention health technology</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:a607bd006e80/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:health"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://tomrowley.substack.com/p/whats-the-point-of-hardbacks">
    <title>What's the point of hardbacks?</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-12T15:53:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://tomrowley.substack.com/p/whats-the-point-of-hardbacks</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tom Rowley asks publishers, agents and the boss of the Booker why fiction still debuts in hardback when readers clearly prefer paperbacks. The answer is margin; the first edition is a “glorified marketing tool” for the paperback a year later. Indies are already breaking the pattern: Fitzcarraldo has always done paperback-first, and Faber recently published Eliza Clark’s “She’s Always Hungry” in both formats simultaneously. Fine for non-fiction and cookbooks. For a novel you want to shove in a bag, less so.]]></description>
<dc:subject>books economics formats publishing</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:d04496ef472b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:economics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:formats"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:publishing"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/">
    <title>The Hunt for Dark Breakfast</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-05T06:00:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/the-hunt-for-dark-breakfast/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“In the manifold of breakfast, are there empty subspaces? Might there be breakfasts that no one has ever had? With a theoretical model of breakfast, can we derive the existence of ‘dark breakfasts,’ breakfasts that we know must exist, but have never observed?”]]></description>
<dc:subject>food breakfast humour visualisation</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:585893faabbd/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:humour"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:visualisation"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://samizdat.co/digest/">
    <title>Infinite Digest</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-03T11:07:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://samizdat.co/digest/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A growing set of interactive visualisations from Christian Swineheart that map the internal structure of Infinite Jest—its scrambled chronology, endnote architecture, character networks, etc.]]></description>
<dc:subject>visualisation data books david-foster-wallace infinite-jest</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:ded13b35719f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:data"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:books"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:david-foster-wallace"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:infinite-jest"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n20/leo-robson/diary">
    <title>What I Saw at the Movies</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-02T18:21:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n20/leo-robson/diary</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Leo Robson’s memoir of adolescent cinephilia. Six hundred films at the cinema in late-90s London, exercise books of star ratings, a filing cabinet of newspaper cuttings.]]></description>
<dc:subject>film cinema london 1990s</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:de77641301b5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:cinema"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:london"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:1990s"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://theamericanscholar.org/the-last-good-thing/">
    <title>The Last Good Thing</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-02T15:26:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theamericanscholar.org/the-last-good-thing/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jess Love acquires a binder of 92 DVDs from a neighbour’s porch and talks herself into a moral framework around physical media, parenting, and opting out of streaming. The real subject is the reminiscence bump: why the technologies of your formative years feel not just familiar but correct, and how nostalgia oscillates between protective instinct and self-delusion.]]></description>
<dc:subject>nostalgia psychology technology formats</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:bafe489d525f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:formats"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.gjlondon.com/blog/ai-agents-could-make-free-software-matter-again/">
    <title>AI Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again</title>
    <dc:date>2026-04-01T19:36:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.gjlondon.com/blog/ai-agents-could-make-free-software-matter-again/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[George London on how AI coding tools can ensure open and free software regains a practical edge over closed services, like much SaaS. I have cancelled two iOS app subscription and one SaaS subscription in the last month after I realised I could make my own versions that meet my specific needs rather than those of the mass market. This article is an interesting counterpoint to some of what Anil Dash argues in “Endgame for the Open Web”.]]></description>
<dc:subject>programming ai software open-source</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:0d14645fa695/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:ai"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:software"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:open-source"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/">
    <title>Endgame for the Open Web</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-31T19:59:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Anil Dash on how the open web is being eroded. At the end he talks about building “good AI” and alternative infrastructures. I wonder what concrete coordination, funding models and incentive structures would enable those projects to scale and compete with Big Tech before the open web’s critical institutions collapse?]]></description>
<dc:subject>internet ai capitalism technology open-source</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:c220f0e0e525/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:ai"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:open-source"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://bundesletter.substack.com/p/how-to-make-a-stone-cold-classic">
    <title>How to make a stone-cold classic</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-31T17:21:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://bundesletter.substack.com/p/how-to-make-a-stone-cold-classic</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The making of West Germany's 1990 World Cup shirt. Fair to call it ‘iconic’? I think so.]]></description>
<dc:subject>1990s 1990 football worldcup germany kits</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:c798d06f9bc4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:1990"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:football"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:worldcup"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:germany"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:kits"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2026-03-25/flea-honora-new-album-feature-red-hot-chili-peppers-jazz">
    <title>At 63, Flea finally becomes the jazz musician he always dreamed of being</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-30T03:49:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2026-03-25/flea-honora-new-album-feature-red-hot-chili-peppers-jazz</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’ve listened to Flea’s new album “Honora” several times since its release. The backstory is great: he played trumpet as a kid, then devoted two hours a day across two years of RHCP touring to re-educating himself on the instrument, promising to record an album at the end.]]></description>
<dc:subject>music flea jazz albums practice</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:027854c32794/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:flea"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:jazz"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:albums"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://a.wholelottanothing.org/woodworking-updates/">
    <title>Woodworking updates</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-30T03:42:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://a.wholelottanothing.org/woodworking-updates/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Matt Haughey on his woodworking practice. I can think of a few people who have started woodworking in the past few years. I don’t think I have the time, space or budget to join them, but perhaps one day—this all looks great.]]></description>
<dc:subject>wood hobbies woodwork creativity</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:21a0ca45b064/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:hobbies"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:woodwork"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://parachord.com/">
    <title>Parachord</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-28T18:25:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://parachord.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I likely won’t swap to this (I’m too committed to my approach of loading all my purchased music into Apple Music, playing it through Albums, and scrobbling to Last.fm) but it looks a hugely interesting way to use ALL the music apps together.]]></description>
<dc:subject>apps music streaming</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:8df1acc1a16d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:music"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.gq.com/story/american-footballs-true-confessions">
    <title>American Football’s True Confessions</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-21T14:43:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.gq.com/story/american-footballs-true-confessions</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wonderful, in-depth look at the history and present of the band American Football. There has been much more turbulence than I ever imagined. I really hope Mike Kinsella can fix his demons.]]></description>
<dc:subject>music american-football mike-kinsella</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:89818fbe5b5a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:mike-kinsella"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit">
    <title>The 49MB Web Page</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-19T06:00:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Viewability and time-on-page are very important metrics these days. Every hostile UX decision originates from this single fact. The longer you're trapped on the page, the higher the CPM the publisher can charge. Your frustration is the product. No wonder engineers and designers make every UX decision that optimizes for that. And you, the reader, are forced to interact, wait, click, scroll multiple times because of this optimization. Not only is it a step in the wrong direction, it is adversarial by design.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>ux internet advertising design marketing performance</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:e0c635cee573/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/t:marketing"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://billberrett.info/mkdc-interview-1982.html?__readwiseLocation=">
    <title>MKDC Interview 1982 | Bill Berrett</title>
    <dc:date>2026-03-18T13:34:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://billberrett.info/mkdc-interview-1982.html?__readwiseLocation=</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Interview with Bill Berrett by Richard Cole, 1982.  Berrett, with Fred Pooley, prepared the first plans for a New City (later Milton Keynes) for Buckinghamshire County Council before joining the Development Corporation as Executive Architect.]]></description>
<dc:subject>cities milton-keynes town-planning</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:coldbrain/b:385cef3a8677/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://hicks.design/journal/my-perfect-music-app-doesnt-exist">
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An experiment in language change]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://unsung.aresluna.org/unsung-heroes-flickrs-urls-scheme/">
    <title>Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme – Unsung</title>
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<item rdf:about="https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/jim-orourke-album-guide">
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    <title>What is the Difference Between Henry, Hetty, James, Charles, George Va</title>
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<item rdf:about="https://prospect.org/2021/03/22/islands-in-the-stream-spotify-youtube-music-monopoly/">
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<item rdf:about="https://ericdharvey.substack.com/p/everything-looks-perfect-from-far?r=bqs7&amp;triedRedirect=true">
    <title>Everything Looks Perfect From Far Away</title>
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    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An essay on "Peak Indie," inspired by Chris DeVille's book Such Great Heights]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://reallifemag.com/cold-discovery/">
    <title>Cold Discovery</title>
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    <link>https://reallifemag.com/cold-discovery/</link>
    <dc:creator>coldbrain</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What is lost when we “watch Netflix” rather than shows and “listen to Spotify” rather than songs?]]></description>
<dc:subject>streaming content platforms attention</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know-either">
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<item rdf:about="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n07/steven-shapin/paradigms-gone-wild">
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    <title>63 Chinese Cuisines: the Complete Guide</title>
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