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When we were young, we talked about ideas. Now all we talk about is words.
From Marx, Anarchism and Web Standards, which Patrick sidelighted the other day: This tendency [using terms of art to increase...
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Dear sir or madam, will you...
Three years in the making, it's I'm Not the Road, Whisperado's first full-length album. Fourteen songs--twelve Jon Sobel originals,...
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About those "Facebook revolutions"
Noting the propensity of "social" Internet services to pat themselves on the back for their role in various uprisings against...
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It Struck Me Funny
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Zwischen Ehre und Treue
Die atemberaubende Reise zu den Sternen geht weiter Beka Rosselin-Metadi hat den Verantwortlichen für den Mordanschlag auf ihre Mutter...
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But what were they doing in Crobuzon?
Have you visited (or lived in!) both $PLACENAME and New $PLACENAME? Extra points for Nova, Nuevo, and other non-English forms...
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Wrong on So Many Levels
I was reading a sign high on the wall behind the bar: 'Only genuine pre-war British and American whiskeys served...
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Misleadingly Named Recipes
In honor of National Chocolate Cake Day (27 January, and no, I'm not making that up): From the Old Family...
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January is Zombie Month
If you do it twice, it's a tradition! Following the shamblerun-away success of Zombies On My Shoulder and Dead On...
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Can't you hear beyond the croaking?
You know the management-seminar myth about boiled frogs? If you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it...
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Life imitates Friz Freleng
For the recent Winter Economic Reinvigoration Holiday I got Chris a copy of Liaquat Ahamed’s Lords of Finance: The Bankers...
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Open Thread 169
War had come to an end, but famine came in its place. There were three men who each stole a...
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SOPA and PIPA: Where we are. What they want.
SOPA, PIPA, and other laws and proposed laws like them claim to be about "piracy," but don't be fooled. Smart...
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And now, a word from the Unblinking Eye
The Motion Picture Association of America, chief sponsor and financier of SOPA and PIPA, addresses Wikipedia, Reddit, and other major...
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Making Light to go dark against SOPA and PIPA
Tomorrow, from 8 AM to 8 PM EST, Making Light will go dark as an expression of our opposition to...
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As you are, once was I; as I am, you will be
Somewhere in the hyperactive panopticon that is my Twitter stream, I appear to have happened upon a clump of "ruin...
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Live from Dixville Notch 2012
It's the New Hampshire State Primary! Dixville Notch reports First in the State for the First in the Nation primary....
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Schokoladenpudding
Chocolate Pudding (serves 6, once around) (Yet another Old Family Recipe) ¾ cup sugar 5 T flour ¼ tsp...
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Politics open thread 1
It is the privilege of the moderator to pull excellent comments onto the front page. In that spirit, I direct...
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Keep Watching the Skies
The skies should be clear over most of North America tonight. The moon will have set by four in the...
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