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After reading Bush's badly misguided "we'll hold their feet to the fire" quote from the Blair/Bush news conference in so...
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Hey, cool. The NYT Magazine's Year In Ideas is here again. That oughta hold you over until the next post...
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I was talking it over with a friend again recently, and I still have the same reaction I had when...
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I love old library books. Marked up in pen and pencil by ten different people, one sitting in his underwear...
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Ever since ATT Wireless merged with Cingular, their page for adding minutes to a prepaid phone has said "The AT&T...
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According to Google Maps, the Coffeyville Country Club in Kansas is at the very center of the United States. Just...
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It seems that languages must evolve to conform to optimal Shannon information-theory configurations. Even complex things, if commonly expressed, are...
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Once again it's time to raise the national debt ceiling to avoid a crisis. Truly scary stuff. What's an average...
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Been wanting to post this for several months but never got around to it. If you ever get the chance...
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Why is it so hard to get up in the morning? My head feels like sludge poured through concrete. The...
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Wait, am I blogging again? No, really, I was just about to throw away those 3x5 cards on which I...
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I've been having a blast playing in the Alter Ego band for what, almost two years now? My role as...
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