Archive for the 'sideblog'

Dennis Baron traces the odd history of futile...
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from Wired: Georgia Aquarium zoologist Alistair...
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via xkcd: Period Speech. Tweet ...
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Gene Weingarten on the new newspaper: Not very...
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Charlie Brooker in the Guardian: Flippantly...
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