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The Ghost and the Machine

By Jennifer Byrne

Things don’t just go bump in the night anymore – they emit high-frequency audio evidence, are recorded and saved in .WAV format, and bore us (rather than scare us) to death. [23 April 2009]

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Music
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Events
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DVDs
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Books
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Multimedia
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