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  • If there is a single focus point for all these contradictions, it is in another structure found on the Euston Road, one also on the brink of obsolesence.

    Ruined gothic « Squares of Wheat 2009

  • Well, we're reaping what we sowed, and are well on our way to obsolesence.

    McDonnell drops F-bomb in live interview 2009

  • If there is a single focus point for all these contradictions, it is in another structure found on the Euston Road, one also on the brink of obsolesence.

    March « 2009 « Squares of Wheat 2009

  • One thing all computrer manufacturers are still failing to address is the structural obsolesence they build into their machines.

    Apple Gets Greener With Launch of MacBook Air | Inhabitat 2008

  • How will this play out with our planned obsolesence economy?

    Whole Foods, a Trend Setter 2009

  • How will this play out with our planned obsolesence economy?

    Time to Get Rid of Plastic Grocery Bags 2009

  • We met someone once who was proud to say he made refrigerator shelves with built in obsolesence so that people would have to keep replacing them!

    A Disposable Society Lauri 2009

  • That's about the frequency of actual news amid the exhausting accounts of campaign stops, the blizzard of polls that drip toward obsolesence the minute they come out and the tortuous man-on-the-street interviews with the small town Democrat for Obama, the same small town Republican for McCain, the same small town attention junkie who's undecided and the same small town rebel who won't vote because the whole thing is fixed anyhow.

    Peter Mehlman: In No Particular Order.... 2008

  • It is easier to understand that you face competition then obsolesence.

    More from Shirky Matt Baehr 2008

  • If you want the sure path to political obsolesence in the eyes of most Americans, keep heading down that road.

    Sound Politics: Liberals Think Fighting Terrorism Is a Pain 2006

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