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Sleep, the nectar of the Gods

Kevin Drum today: Of the many things I hold against conservatives, one of the less cosmically important is that so many of them seem to belong to the annoying eager-beaver wake-up-at-the-crack-of-dawn club. Yeah, I’m deeply suspicious of the crack-of-dawn crowd … Continue reading

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Lord….

OK, I need all of my readers from Minneapolis to chime in here, as soon as possible. Let me know you’re all right. UPDATE: This is the bridge that collapsed: Here’s the bridge’s location in relation to downtown Minneapolis. The … Continue reading

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Invisible Rope

These two guys are evil. Now, if they’d pantomimed being yanked off their feet when the cars hit their invisible ropes….

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Great picture posts!

Do you feel lucky?

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America

It always saddens me that on July 4 these days, we hear that Lee Greenwood song a lot, and “God Bless America” a lot. The latter’s a good song and all, and I don’t really care for the former, but … Continue reading

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Well, I think she’s beautiful….

God, I hate the assumption behind this advertisement for light yogurt. (Not work-safe; it’s a woman who is wearing nothing but rose petals. And I think she’s utterly beautiful.)

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Things you can do with three-by-five cards

Jason Bennion links Indexed, which is a blog with a fairly clever conceit: each post is a single pithy idea, expressed graphically as a sketch of some sort on an index card. Fun exploring.

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Wakka wakka wakka

John Scalzi asks: Is Pac-Man a mammal? Well, obviously, no, he’s not, so far as we can tell from the evidence. There’s no hint that Pac-persons nurse their young, and one of the cartoons in Ms. Pac-Man clearly establishes that … Continue reading

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Oh my God….

Utterly stunning. It’s a computer application demo that makes me think that we’re not 300 years away from Star Trek‘s library computer, but 47 months or so. I can’t believe the stuff they can do. Via Shamus.

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Economy? What’s that?

The Family and I made a trek into the wilds of Western New York’s Southern Tier today. Nothing really to say about that, except that if one sees one of those omnipresent “dollar stores” decked out with giant banners indicating … Continue reading

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