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Sitting is killing you.

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Music Hack (Taken with Instagram at The Southern Bar)

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Music night. (Taken with Instagram)

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Waiting for Ikea to open... (Taken with Instagram at IKEA)

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Big biscuit (Taken with Instagram at Glasgow Botanic Gardens)

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Father Sculptor - Ember

Here's a brand new track from a brand new Glasgow outfit... You heard them here first :)

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What were the names of the actors in the "Pea and ham from a chicken" advert

One of them was Phil McCall... Can anyone name the other guy?

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Walking Heads - Glasgow Music Tour

Check out Walking Heads for excellent apps & downloads of walking tours of Glasgow & Edinburgh... Their latest release features Scottish music maven Jim Gellatly taking us on a journey of Glasgow's best music venues...

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History of 20th Century Art

Featuring Glasgow comic Sandy Nelson. NSFW.

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Last Friday night (in Glasgow)

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Birds Eye Steakhouse Grills Advert (1982)

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Hurricane Katia off the east coast of the US could cause stormy weather to hit Scotland on Monday, according to forecasters in Miami.

BBC News, 9.9.11

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In Mac OS X 10.7, known as Lion, Apple went with the “shake things up” philosophy. It follows an old Apple pattern of embracing what’s cool and progressive, and ruthlessly jettisoning what it considers antiquated. That’s great if you love stuff that’s cool and progressive, and not so great if you hate people moving your cheese.

Upgrading to Lion Means Embracing the iPad, David Pogue, NYT, 20 July 2011

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I for one welcome our new jellyfish overlords.