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== late 2011 ==
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[http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/2011/11/21/about-pepper-spray/ About Pepper Spray]
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Some [https://groups.google.com/group/d3-js/browse_thread/thread/13ed21c4ca2bf47c?pli=1 discussion] on a batteries-included chart interface for d3.js
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[http://www.poppyfields.net/poppy/mahna.html Do doo be-do-do!]
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[http://www.catonmat.net/download/perl1line.txt perl1line.txt]
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GeneralSemantics
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[Bikelight] - Seriously, take my money.
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[http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7146312/lou-reed-metallica-album Klosterman on the Lou Reed/Metallica album]
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[http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/ The Social Graph is Neither]
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wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack Spring-heeled Jack]
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[https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/we-demand-vapid-condescending-meaningless-politically-safe-response-petition/gCZfn86x We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless, politically safe response to this petition.]
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[http://boingboing.net/2011/10/31/air-space-a-trip-through-an-airport-detention-center.html a trip through an airport detention center] ([http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/14810.html via])
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[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmkbbbdekmmmcbfjd RSS Subscription Extension for Chrome] - Why is this not just a feature?
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[http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/occupy-oakland-6530274 Occupy Oakland and the Militarization of America's Police]
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http://occupywriters.com
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[http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2011/10/an-american-teen-ager-in-yemen.html An American Teen-ager in Yemen]
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[http://i.imgur.com/sg4Sh.jpg the line-up]
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[http://www.metafilter.com/108443/He-is-it-goes-without-saying-a-popular-popular-man-at-dinner-parties#3977479 pancakes]
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Kieran Healy: [http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2011/10/10/a-sociology-of-steve-jobs/ A Sociology of Steve Jobs]
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http://thealrightband.com
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xkcd: [http://xkcd.com/963/ X11]
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[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388 Cable does not enter slot.]
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xkcd: [http://www.xkcd.com/956/ sharing]
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Jason Scott: [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3331 "enjoy your future"]
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[http://motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2011/09/amazon-warehouse-heat-shipping The Real Price of Amazon's Free Shipping]
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WareLogging: [http://mbostock.github.com/d3/ d3.js] - some pretty sweet dataviz stuff
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[http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/htf/2288729704.html Large Cat Statue]
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sparkfun: [http://www.sparkfun.com/news/700 SFE Visits Scaled Composites] - I need to get in on more junkets.
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Elizabeth Bear: [http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/09/i-singularity.html I, Singularity...]
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WareLogging: [http://grml.org/zsh-pony/ The Zsh Pony]
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[http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2011/08/29/305723/feminist-media-criticism-george-r-r-martins-a-song-of-ice-and-fire-and-that-sady-doyle-piece/ All that really needs to be said about this].
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wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Faust Johann Georg Faust]
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[http://feelafraidcomic.com/19.php This isn't a god damn singles club]
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[https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/07/case-pseudonyms A Case for Pseudonyms]
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[https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki Smallest Federated Wiki]
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[http://www.complang.org/ragel/ ragel]
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CharlesStross: [http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/06/reality-check-1.html Three arguments against the singularity]
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[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3365 on Jamaican Creole]
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[http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/10/12/091012crat_atlarge_lepore?currentPage=all on scientific management]
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[http://www.thepaincomics.com/weekly110713.htm Tim Kreider on the moon vs. Afghanistan]:
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_As my instructive chart shows, we’ve blown like three times more accomplishing it’s not clear exactly what in Afghanistan than we spent putting men on the Moon. I am not even counting Iraq, for the cost of which we could probably build a floating pleasure-dome on Io. So how about knock it off with the why-are-we-spending-this-money-on-space horseshit already and do something useful with your pipsqueak pious outrage instead?_
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[http://sharemenot.cs.washington.edu/ sharemenot]
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[http://rapgenius.com/posts/The-history-of-hip-hop-as-told-by-rap-genius the history of hip hop (as told by rap genius)]
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jwz: [http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/07/mork-keeps-on-giving-when-the-database-worms-eat-into-your-murder-trial/ when the database worms eat into your murder trial]
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xkcd: [http://xkcd.com/910/ Permanence]
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[http://mollybackes.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-be-writer.html how to be a writer] (tl;dr: write.)
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wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski Alfred Korzybski]
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Stross: [http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/07/federovs-rapture.html Federov's Rapture]
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wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacognition Metacognition] ([http://www.metafilter.com/105186/Metacognitive-training-for-schizophrenia-suffers-and-everybody-else via])
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alan: [http://acg.github.com/2011/06/10/measuring-the-measurers.html Measuring the Measurers]
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[http://vimeo.com/14912890 Everything is a Remix]
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[http://www.multicians.org/thvv/mail-history.html The History of Electronic Mail] (via [http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/did-my-brother-invent-e-mail-with-tom-van-vleck-part-one/ this fascinating interview])
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[http://www.bostonreview.net/BR36.3/junot_diaz_apocalypse_haiti_earthquake.php apocalypse]
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[http://www.andrewskurka.com/advice/technique/fancyfeaststove.php making a Fancy Feast backpacking stove]
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[http://mjg59.livejournal.com/137313.html rebooting]
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[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/france-attempts-to-civilize-the-internet-internet-fights-back.ars Sarkozy & "civilizing" the Internet]
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[http://textism.com/2008/08/31/a.dslr.catechism A DSLR Catechism]
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[http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/ Unix First Edition Manuals] - absolutely fascinating.
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[http://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/ Unix First Edition Source Code]
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https://github.com/brennen/bpb-kit - dotfiles, etc.
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WareLogging: [http://richardappleby.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/wacom-bamboo-pen-tablet-under-ubuntu-10-10/ Wacom Bamboo pen tablet under Ubuntu 10.10]
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WacomTablet
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WareLogging: [zsh]
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[http://sebastiancelis.com/2009/11/16/zsh-prompt-git-users/ A zsh prompt for git users]
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[http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html sample Piet programs]
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http://openlibrary.org
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[http://openlibrary.org/books/OL24221709M/They_flew_to_fame. ''They Flew to Fame''] - I own a copy of this book.
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achewood: [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=11222006 No, I ain't got a fax machine!]
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WareLogging: [http://mobac.sourceforge.net/ Mobile Atlas Creator]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hi5q3Gq6UhI Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb]
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== early 2011 ==
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wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Me_a_Pallet_on_the_Floor Make Me a Pallet on the Floor]
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[http://www.metafilter.com/101493/Its-called-Ferris-Buellers-Day-Off-Youve-probably-never-heard-of-it metafilter overthinks ferris bueller]
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[http://www.youtube.com/user/michaeljohnblake What Pi Sounds Like] (via, like, everybody)
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[http://www.steike.com/code/xterm-colors/ xtfix] - differentiate xterms by subtly shifting colors (tiling WM users, this will be of interest)
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[http://goodnightdune.com/ Goodnight Dune]
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[http://acg.github.com/ maelstrom] - Nerds: Alan has a tech blog again, you should read it.
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[http://boycottharpercollins.com/ Are we still boycotting Harper Collins?]
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mefi: [http://ask.metafilter.com/179468/keep-hands-and-arms-in-the-vehicle-at-all-times Have you ever jumped out of a moving car?]
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mefi: [http://www.metafilter.com/100965/How-We-Know How We Know (Freeman Dyson)]
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JackieKay
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WareLogging: [http://kevinmehall.net/p/pithos/ pithos] - Native Pandora client for Linux
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wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hone_Tuwhare Hone Tuwhare]
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[http://devzone.zend.com/article/12132 Getting started with mongodb and PHP]
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http://www.170millionamericans.org
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achewood: [http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uua2fKpSP Ray is high under the table]
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[http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-chess-master-and-the-computer/ The Chess Master and the Computer]
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WareLogging: [https://github.com/jamiew/git-friendly git-friendly]
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I'm pretty sure Tim Bray is right [http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/02/09/Hash-Blecch about this].
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUxLUZTACrE&feature=fvwrel "To the Dogs or Whoever"]
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[http://www.granta.com/Magazine/92/How-to-Write-about-Africa/Page-1 How to Write about Africa]
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sparkfun: [http://www.sparkfun.com/news/550 Open Source Hardware Definition]
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[http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/02/a-personal-reflection-on-brian-jacques A Personal Reflection on Brian Jacques]
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[http://www.npr.org/2011/01/31/133278431/first-listen-bright-eyes-the-peoples-key Bright Eyes: ''The People's Key'']
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[http://i.imgur.com/V4mpO.png fries]
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[http://bettermyths.blogspot.com/2010/08/neil-gaiman-made-up-this-myth.html a really good poem about balls]
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[http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/1/29/live_from_the_egyptian_revolution_by_sharif_abdel_kouddous Live from the Egyptian Revolution]
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flickr: [http://www.flickr.com/groups/birdguide/ Field Guide: Birds of the World]
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CharlieStross: [http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/reasons-to-be-cheerful.html Reasons to be cheerful] ([http://www.flutterby.com/archives/comments/13802.html via])
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[http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-business/ci_17107076 sparkfun electronics growing big in boulder] - This article kind of makes me twitch.
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[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=240968 Jolie Holland on poetry]
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[http://www.explosm.net/comics/2284/ elephants]
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNcOyMLJ1xI Charlie Parr - "1922"]
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[https://nldr.library.ucar.edu/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=18&q=&rootcontentid=2602 National Scientific Balloon Facility Records]
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== Late 2010 ==
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[http://twitpic.com/3jn5vs Neil Gaiman is better at this game than you are].
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WareLogging: [http://danielchoi.com/software/vmail.html Vmail] - Gmail in VimEditor
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[http://www.themillions.com/2010/08/where-we-write-the-merits-of-making-do.html The Merits of Making Do]
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[http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/012733.html Holding US journalism in contempt]
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[http://www.nypress.com/article-19271-flat-n-all-that.html On T. Friedman's ''Hot, Flat and Crowded'']
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[http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7727401/ Why You Shouldn't Become an Archivist] ([http://www.metafilter.com/97757/Why-You-Shouldnt-Become-an-Archivist mefi])
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[http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/11/all_the_lonely_people.html "You know what a bore is, Travis. Someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with companionship."]
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[http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/11/dogs-dont-understand-basic-concepts.html Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving]
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mefi: [http://www.metafilter.com/97540/The-Insanity-Virus The Insanity Virus] - [http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jun/03-the-insanity-virus/ ''Discover'' article on possibility that schizophrenia is caused] by an [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus endogenous retrovirus]
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[http://www.archive.org/stream/biographicalhist00holl/biographicalhist00holl_djvu.txt Biographical history of Cloud County, KS]
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[http://sea.ucar.edu/event/twenty-years-free-software-project Twenty years with a Free Software project] (via some BLUG folks)
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Via Eric, an [http://aintitcool.com/node/47326 AICN Q&A with Berke Breathed]
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[http://caseydentinger.com/ "five songs with nothing to do with anything"]
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[http://www.legalize2012.com/ Colorado Legalize 2012]
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harkavagrant: [http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=285 Dracula]
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wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws List of eponymous laws]
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This is a pretty good summary of [http://www.flickr.com/photos/stilldavid/5118331344/ the view] out my office window.
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wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Melanchthon Philipp Melanchthon]
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[http://www.slideshare.net/cog/chmod-x-chmod chmod -x chmod] (nerds, read this one)
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[http://dawnchapel.com/2010/06/the-early-bird-gets-the-earworm/ "I'm gonna, but my insurance don't cover it"]
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wp: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_euphemism Baseball euphemism]
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mefi: [http://ask.metafilter.com/120479/Crimes-committed-by-Ferris-Bueller-during-his-Day-off Crimes committed by Ferris Bueller during his Day off]
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WareLogging: The [http://magic-flight.com/ Magic-Flight]
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WareLogging: [http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,5877.0.html Leatherman PST chronology project]
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WareLogging: [http://multitool.org/wiki/tiki-index.php The Multitool Encyclopedia]
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nyt: [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet]
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[http://www.youtube.com/user/gihm#p/a/f/1/pLTZV6CAY_c The Giant's Causeway]
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[http://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201009#01 The sad evolution of wikis] ([http://chneukirchen.org/trivium/2010-09-05 via Trivium])
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3dQWKtFyvs Choppy finally catches an airplane]
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http://boldsparrow.net
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