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		<title>Cambodia&#8217;s homebrew bamboo trains</title>
		<link>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/07/06/cambodias-homebrew-bamboo-trains/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/07/06/cambodias-homebrew-bamboo-trains/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ann p</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow:
Entrepreneurial railway hackers in Cambodia have built &#8220;bamboo trains&#8221; powered by electric motors that ply the abandoned rails of the nation&#8217;s decrepit rail system. With only one scheduled train per week, these jerry-rigged trains are an easy way to move people and cargo around the Cambodian countryside.


A tiny electric generator engine provides the power, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beijing’s &#8220;hutong&#8221; destruction</title>
		<link>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/06/21/beijing%e2%80%99s-hutong-destruction/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/06/21/beijing%e2%80%99s-hutong-destruction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 13:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ann p</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.fabrica.it/?p=718</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Beijing&#8217;s historic layout, which dates back six hundred years to the time of the Ming Dynasty, consists of hutongs, narrow alleyways that run in a maze-like fashion around the centre of the city. The hutongs, while revered as a direct link to China&#8217;s venerated past, are also regarded as a source of shame – representing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US branch of &#8220;Pirate Party&#8221; launches</title>
		<link>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/06/08/us-branch-of-pirate-party-launches/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/06/08/us-branch-of-pirate-party-launches/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ann p</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around-The-World]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.fabrica.it/?p=688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow:
Brent Allison, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Georgia, has founded an American branch of Sweden&#8217;s &#8220;Pirate Party,&#8221; a political party dedicated to copyright reform:


All non-commercial copying and use should be completely free. File sharing and p2p networking should be encouraged rather than criminalized. Culture and knowledge are good things, that increase in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan Likes Green Lifestyles – China Next?</title>
		<link>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/06/07/japan-likes-green-lifestyles-%e2%80%93-china-next/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/06/07/japan-likes-green-lifestyles-%e2%80%93-china-next/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 07:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ann p</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around-The-World]]></category>

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From an Associated Press report we see evidence that  Japanese consumers are adapting lifestyles like those TreeHugger embraces. “A U.S. lifestyle concept that combines consumerism with a bit of ecological conscience is proving a hit in shopping-crazy Japan, where workaholic &#8220;salarymen&#8221; are looking for quick fixes for stress and thinking green is becoming fashionable.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New life outside the jungle</title>
		<link>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/05/12/new-life-outside-the-jungle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2006 10:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ann p</dc:creator>
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In Colombia, the Nukak-Makú who have lived in the wild for generations have emerged from the forest and abandoned their old environment. Having no concept of money, clothes or modern living practises, they are set to remain in the city, rather than returning to the forests. It is a strange phenomenon that communities like this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victorian London poverty map &#8211; from &#8220;semi-criminal&#8221; to &#8220;wealthy&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/05/09/victorian-london-poverty-map-from-semi-criminal-to-wealthy/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/05/09/victorian-london-poverty-map-from-semi-criminal-to-wealthy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2006 23:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ann p</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around-The-World]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow:

Leo sends us this &#8220;map of the location of the poor people in London in 1889, along with a contemporary map of poverty in London. The most interesting thing is the defintion of the poor classes. The lowest is called: &#8216;Vicious, semi-criminal&#8217;.&#8221;
Link
(Thanks, Leo!)

Update: Andrew sez, &#8220;The Economist ran an article on the map Leo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese &#8220;nature video&#8221; about American nerds</title>
		<link>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/05/04/japanese-nature-video-about-american-nerds/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/05/04/japanese-nature-video-about-american-nerds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 13:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ann p</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow:

This Japanese video clip, &#8220;Otaku from USA,&#8221; is a news-program about groups of American tourists who come to Tokyo to indulge their obsession with Japanese nerdly pursuits &#8212; manga, cosplay, etc. There&#8217;s lots of video about how cool and odd Japanese teenagers are, but it&#8217;s nice to see the lens reversed here, Japanese media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germany’s Rhine: No Longer a “German” River</title>
		<link>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/04/28/germany%e2%80%99s-rhine-no-longer-a-%e2%80%9cgerman%e2%80%9d-river/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/04/28/germany%e2%80%99s-rhine-no-longer-a-%e2%80%9cgerman%e2%80%9d-river/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ann p</dc:creator>
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A recent New York Times article gives us an important lesson on the damage incurred by chemical “spills,&#8221;—despite the best efforts to clean them up. In 1986, when a plant near Basle, Switzerland had a chemical spill, millions of fish for hundreds of miles downstream Germany’s Rhine river were killed, and Rhine salmon wiped out. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese &#8220;ghost ship&#8221; fishing boats rotting off of W African coast</title>
		<link>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/04/01/chinese-ghost-ship-fishing-boats-rotting-off-of-w-african-coast-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/04/01/chinese-ghost-ship-fishing-boats-rotting-off-of-w-african-coast-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ann p</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cory Doctorow:
Greenpeace has published an amazing first-person account of visits to the  rusting Chinese &#8220;ghost ships&#8221; floating off the West African coast. These fishing ships are loaded, supplied and collected form at sea, without any dock-time for maintenance (or for their crews to desert). They are floating wrecks, riddled with holes, hemorrhaging fuel, rotting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thailand: huge anti-gov demonstrations, media largely silent</title>
		<link>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/03/07/thailand-huge-anti-gov-demonstrations-media-largely-silent-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.fabrica.it/2006/03/07/thailand-huge-anti-gov-demonstrations-media-largely-silent-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Mar 2006 09:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ann p</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.fabrica.it/?p=417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Xeni Jardin:




BoingBoing reader Jit in Thailand says,

Thai television has been notorious for remaining silent when historic events are happening. 
Right now history is happening &#8212; a mob is marching on Government House with the intent to overthrow the Thaksin administration. 
What is Thai broadcast television showing? This.
Full coverage of the recent unrest is here &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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