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May 10, 25 |
Delusional militia menaces weather scientists |
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May 9, 25 |
Reviving the personal blog |
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Oct 29, 21 |
Instagram, a month of work per week, and the corruption of ideas |
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Oct 14, 21 |
Suffocating in slime |
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Oct 8, 21 |
Blocking YouTube ads |
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Oct 5, 21 |
“Do Not Track” isn’t working |
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Oct 2, 21 |
Key-pat panics |
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Sep 29, 21 |
The Imposter’s Handbook |
|
Sep 4, 21 |
An RSS feed of book launches |
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Sep 4, 21 |
Trying to see the Milky Way in 3D |
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Sep 4, 21 |
Most epic typo evar? |
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Sep 4, 21 |
Mildly interesting currency data |
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Sep 1, 21 |
Actions, meet consequences |
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Aug 27, 21 |
Vegan baking adventure |
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Aug 19, 21 |
Apple’s messy podcast subscription service |
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Jul 31, 21 |
Indie websites are a dying breed |
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Jul 25, 21 |
The final chapter of life |
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Jul 25, 21 |
On the “legitimacy” of vaccine hesitancy |
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Jul 17, 21 |
The time for hesitation is over |
|
Jul 17, 21 |
Invoice vs receipt |
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Jul 16, 21 |
Murderbot Diaries not quite winning me over |
|
Jul 7, 21 |
The Tomorrow War is an extremely realistic film |
|
Jul 7, 21 |
My SSD transition is complete |
|
Jul 2, 21 |
Whip it real good: the actual distance record for a dog catching a flying disc |
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Jun 25, 21 |
Ratings reversal |
|
Jun 25, 21 |
Not so foreign |
|
Jun 25, 21 |
I watched a heron eat a big leech-thing |
|
Jun 1, 21 |
Project Hail Mary ★★★★☆ |
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May 29, 21 |
Reporting the media I consume |
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May 29, 21 |
An impossibly old star |
|
May 29, 21 |
Gaga sings Smelly Cat |
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May 29, 21 |
Under the Skin ★★★☆☆ |
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May 27, 21 |
Army of the Dead ★★☆☆☆ |
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May 25, 21 |
Squirrels are amazing |
|
May 24, 21 |
“kthxbye” explained |
|
May 24, 21 |
Working with iPadOS is like wearing oven mitts |
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May 24, 21 |
QR codes still useless |
|
May 24, 21 |
Apple finally fixes the app update bug |
|
May 24, 21 |
Cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome |
|
May 24, 21 |
The Chicks vs. The Iraq War |
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May 22, 21 |
Too Like the Lightning ★☆☆☆☆ |
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May 8, 21 |
Made for Love ★★★★☆ |
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May 5, 21 |
Another Round ★★★☆☆ |
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May 5, 21 |
Relativistic star systems |
|
May 5, 21 |
The M1 clones are coming |
|
Apr 18, 21 |
Misbehaving muons |
|
Apr 15, 21 |
“Unable to Download App” |
|
Apr 15, 21 |
Stephen King’s “The Tan” |
|
Apr 15, 21 |
Balcony lady |
|
Feb 1, 21 |
Public health theatre |
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Jan 19, 21 |
The most dangerous lie |
|
Jan 5, 21 |
Thermopolium |
|
Jan 5, 21 |
Two interesting bird sightings |
|
Jan 5, 21 |
Impossible to efficiently remove video data from Apple’s “Live” Photos |
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Dec 18, 20 |
I get it |
|
Dec 13, 20 |
Cats like to sit on things |
|
Nov 9, 20 |
Honesty is for people we care about |
|
Nov 9, 20 |
Getting lost in the code library |
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Sep 25, 20 |
“Have you turned it off and on again?” |
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Sep 24, 20 |
Beaten by Heaven |
|
Sep 24, 20 |
Most beliefs are wrong |
|
Sep 18, 20 |
Hypercanes |
|
Sep 14, 20 |
A new type of Goldilocks zone for life |
|
Sep 11, 20 |
Peak denial |
|
Sep 6, 20 |
Neighbour loses his shit at tech constantly forever |
|
Sep 3, 20 |
Best sprite photo I have seen so far |
|
Sep 3, 20 |
Down with tracking! |
|
Aug 24, 20 |
Three more ways masks help prevent Covid infection |
|
Aug 21, 20 |
SETI marches on |
|
Aug 13, 20 |
Stolen Bike Part 2: Recovered for different reasons than I thought! |
|
Aug 11, 20 |
Stolen Bike Part 1: Recovered! |
|
Aug 8, 20 |
The “asymps” are driving the pandemic |
|
Jul 28, 20 |
How many readers did I get from active Facebook posting 2018-2020? |
|
Jul 22, 20 |
That “troll” might just be a kid |
|
Jul 22, 20 |
Tonsil stone symptoms that don’t get much attention |
|
Jul 22, 20 |
Digression depth |
|
Jul 17, 20 |
Writing for customers versus an audience |
|
Jul 17, 20 |
Doomliving |
|
Jul 17, 20 |
Critter counting |
|
Jul 6, 20 |
How to take off a stuck ring |
|
Jun 25, 20 |
It’s life, Jim, but it looks weird |
|
Jun 16, 20 |
Impressive machine learning for plant identification |
|
Jun 16, 20 |
“Books” so bad they don’t deserve the name |
|
May 31, 20 |
Remembering my outrage |
|
May 31, 20 |
The coyotes won’t scare |
|
May 31, 20 |
Beating the “wrong” out of science writing |
|
May 31, 20 |
The Canadian perspective on America’s crisis |
|
May 15, 20 |
“The End” — Star Wars ends with a whimper |
|
Apr 29, 20 |
AirPods Pro not as good for me as AirPods Amateur |
|
Apr 29, 20 |
Dongletown |
|
Jan 15, 20 |
macOS still can’t shuffle a slideshow |
|
Nov 19, 19 |
Speculation |
|
Nov 19, 19 |
Websites are like young teenagers |
|
Oct 12, 19 |
Eighty percent of tech support begins like this |
|
Oct 5, 19 |
Dancing with entropy (in code and machinery) |
|
Aug 20, 19 |
What’s so smart about it? |
|
Jun 9, 19 |
Ghost penalties on domains |
|
Jun 9, 19 |
Go see Booksmart |
|
Jun 9, 19 |
Kempt, shevelled, and gainly |
|
Jun 5, 19 |
Affinity schmaffinity! Still no export preview |
|
Mar 11, 19 |
Weirdest refund request yet |
|
Mar 8, 19 |
The Favourite: micro review |
|
Mar 8, 19 |
Exciting night of ultimate |
|
Feb 25, 19 |
Hi from Christie! An impressive coincidence |
|
Jan 2, 19 |
iPhone speed bump |
|
Dec 28, 18 |
Online shoppers are determined |
|
Dec 28, 18 |
Moat eel |
|
Dec 28, 18 |
So many dusty old “apps for that”! |
|
Nov 28, 18 |
Deep view of Andromeda galaxy beautifully shows the vastness of space |
|
Nov 28, 18 |
Astrology book in science book display |
|
Nov 8, 18 |
Reached a huge long-term fitness goal |
|
Nov 6, 18 |
First Man: brilliant but surprisingly morose |
|
Oct 27, 18 |
If the Republicans hold congress |
|
Oct 27, 18 |
Thinking hard is cheap |
|
Oct 27, 18 |
The yoo-hoo bird’s exotic identity |
|
Oct 17, 18 |
I STILL GET ALL-CAPS EMAIL |
|
Oct 17, 18 |
Kids these days |
|
Oct 9, 18 |
A Deepness in the Sky |
|
Sep 25, 18 |
New anti-SLAPP laws in British Columbia |
|
Sep 24, 18 |
Clarification trolling |
|
Aug 23, 18 |
A background of progress |
|
Aug 10, 18 |
Another species |
|
Aug 10, 18 |
Gaps between galaxies versus solar systems |
|
Jul 26, 18 |
Pick fewer battles |
|
Jul 17, 18 |
Corpse-flower viewing and private orientation |
|
Jul 4, 18 |
A new kind of AI |
|
Jun 27, 18 |
Lame marketing and AI |
|
Jun 23, 18 |
Slightly less screwed |
|
Jun 23, 18 |
Keyboard condoms |
|
Jun 13, 18 |
Exercise: vampire or muse? |
|
Jun 8, 18 |
Comedic constipation and diarrhea |
|
May 16, 18 |
There’s a special place in hell for true ramblers |
|
Apr 26, 18 |
Actually “so bad it’s good” |
|
Apr 20, 18 |
Pedantic petard |
|
Apr 20, 18 |
Mystery victory |
|
Apr 14, 18 |
Seeing stars |
|
Mar 30, 18 |
A true oddball of a galaxy |
|
Mar 30, 18 |
Bad Apple |
|
Mar 12, 18 |
Dying with a sense of humour |
|
Feb 22, 18 |
Three odd entries in the Gym Diaries |
|
Feb 7, 18 |
I know, right?! |
|
Jan 3, 18 |
You call that a head shot?! |
|
Jan 3, 18 |
I wish I could have a simple iPhone again |
|
Dec 15, 17 |
Pilot tries to make a funny example of me by confiscating my iPhone |
|
Nov 29, 17 |
Worst ever Mac security bug found and fixed in a day |
|
Nov 8, 17 |
Who is so feeble-minded or idle? |
|
Nov 3, 17 |
Westworld |
|
Oct 18, 17 |
Trying not to have uninformed opinions |
|
Oct 3, 17 |
I need to talk to you |
|
Sep 22, 17 |
My strange duty to 30,000 worried people per week |
|
Sep 18, 17 |
The Publishing Paradox |
|
Sep 15, 17 |
So this happened: hunting Pokemon for 1000km |
|
Jul 5, 17 |
Weird, cool Queen concert follow-up item: the crinoline thing |
|
Jul 3, 17 |
Another classic band on tour: Queen this time! |
|
Jun 3, 17 |
Midnight Oil again |
|
May 25, 17 |
Sloppy bloggers yesterday, foolish ones today |
|
May 24, 17 |
Dear sloppy bloggers |
|
Apr 15, 17 |
Fuck you, namaste! |
|
Jan 20, 17 |
Meat minimalism |
|
Jan 11, 17 |
People who are bad with computers are “worse than you think” |
|
Dec 15, 16 |
If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women |
|
Dec 8, 16 |
Louis CK, Comedy Sorceror |
|
Dec 1, 16 |
What White Privilege? What Male Privilege? |
|
Dec 1, 16 |
“Long story short” never is |
|
Dec 1, 16 |
Decades of average satellite imagery of global cloud cover |
|
Nov 14, 16 |
Done with Trek |
|
Nov 11, 16 |
All gave some, some gave all |
|
Nov 7, 16 |
A 1.2 muffin run |
|
Nov 7, 16 |
The illusion of knowing |
|
Nov 7, 16 |
Myths about myths |
|
Nov 4, 16 |
If you’re dumb… |
|
Sep 17, 16 |
iPhone “delivery” |
|
Jun 24, 16 |
Don’t try to change minds (directly) |
|
May 4, 16 |
Not being a dick is still good SEO |
|
Apr 8, 16 |
A better activity tracking app for Apple Watch |
|
Mar 18, 16 |
Cali young and old |
|
Mar 16, 16 |
The absurdity of loving and hating tech brands |
|
Mar 7, 16 |
Cold or flu? There’s no way to know |
|
Mar 2, 16 |
How marketing created rituals |
|
Feb 18, 16 |
What are the best books about writing style? |
|
Jan 12, 16 |
Paul is feeling relieved |
|
Dec 21, 15 |
The psychology of behavioural shifts |
|
Dec 16, 15 |
20,000% increase in traffic |
|
Dec 11, 15 |
Warranties: the agony, the “satisfaction” |
|
Dec 11, 15 |
HTTP/2 is going to change the Internet |
|
Dec 9, 15 |
The Charlie Brown of power users |
|
Dec 4, 15 |
2 days to watch rented movies from iTunes is not long enough |
|
Nov 16, 15 |
Stressed about stress |
|
Oct 9, 15 |
The Martian ★★★★★ |
|
Sep 29, 15 |
Down the kimchi rabbit hole |
|
Sep 15, 15 |
Dam sure SEO |
|
Sep 15, 15 |
Quirky neighbhour |
|
Aug 28, 15 |
Getting the Borderlands vibe right |
|
Aug 19, 15 |
Resuming sort of (but goodbye, Twitter) |
|
Aug 19, 15 |
The litany of Gendlin |
|
Jun 26, 15 |
The ultimate learning curve |
|
Jun 22, 15 |
Distractingly sexy |
|
Jun 22, 15 |
A breakdown of trust in science |
|
Jun 22, 15 |
How do you find out the top Google searches for a topic? |
|
Jun 22, 15 |
Golf clap for JayBird Bluebuds |
|
Jun 8, 15 |
Efficiency |
|
Jun 3, 15 |
The virtualization of life |
|
May 26, 15 |
One thing at at time |
|
May 19, 15 |
Game of Thrones stumbles (for the first time in ages) |
|
May 14, 15 |
Cat holds her ground |
|
May 13, 15 |
Ignoring the to-do list |
|
May 11, 15 |
New York Times now free for some |
|
May 11, 15 |
Caustic Soda lets ladies take over |
|
May 9, 15 |
Hagiography |
|
May 5, 15 |
I like to sit at a desk and type |
|
May 3, 15 |
Few really ask |
|
Apr 14, 15 |
You’re overthinking this |
|
Apr 6, 15 |
Still stuck with Adobe, because only Adobe exports well |
|
Apr 5, 15 |
Weirdest fan mail ever |
|
Apr 4, 15 |
A Manuka Honey Moment |
|
Mar 14, 15 |
The Secret Anarchy of Science |
|
Mar 6, 15 |
Several days off coffee now |
|
Feb 27, 15 |
Goodbye, Spock |
|
Feb 26, 15 |
Blind squirrel finds a big nut |
|
Feb 19, 15 |
Lindy West’s remorseful troll |
|
Feb 18, 15 |
Urgent low priorities |
|
Feb 18, 15 |
Loose grammar |
|
Feb 18, 15 |
Where the people are |
|
Feb 16, 15 |
One weird trick |
|
Feb 15, 15 |
Huge, gorgeous astronomy photos |
|
Jan 24, 15 |
A plague of “tone trolls” dominates online discussion |
|
Jan 13, 15 |
The madness of iTunes |
|
Jan 12, 15 |
The shithouse porcupine |
|
Dec 31, 14 |
Plagiarism isn’t a mistake |
|
Dec 22, 14 |
“Notification storm” |
|
Dec 19, 14 |
Beware the tech |
|
Dec 17, 14 |
Social media tour |
|
Dec 17, 14 |
Google trials free medical consults |
|
Dec 12, 14 |
Epic activism fail |
|
Dec 12, 14 |
Stupid brain |
|
Dec 9, 14 |
I curse you in the name of Jesus! |
|
Nov 26, 14 |
Personal debunking |
|
Nov 23, 14 |
AAS on The Shirt |
|
Nov 23, 14 |
Many regrets |
|
Nov 22, 14 |
Buh-bye Google authorship |
|
Nov 5, 14 |
SPLAIN TIME PLZ!!! |
|
Oct 20, 14 |
Fair use of screenshots |
|
Oct 20, 14 |
The autobody Buddha |
|
Oct 6, 14 |
Give me your bag |
|
Oct 2, 14 |
You’re losing me, Green Party |
|
Oct 2, 14 |
Speak to me |
|
Sep 20, 14 |
Snark attack |
|
Sep 20, 14 |
Godzilla (2014) ★☆☆☆☆ |
|
Sep 20, 14 |
Honesty prevails |
|
Sep 19, 14 |
Zooming along cliffs and sea |
|
Sep 14, 14 |
Owly |
|
Sep 11, 14 |
It’s quiet … too quiet |
|
Sep 11, 14 |
Honest Trailer Proof |
|
Sep 2, 14 |
Overcast’s Smart Speed: faster podcasts that don’t feel faster |
|
Sep 2, 14 |
Hyperlapse |
|
Aug 31, 14 |
Outlander: so far, so good |
|
Aug 26, 14 |
Exploring Spanish Banks |
|
Aug 26, 14 |
More and better ultimate all the time |
|
Aug 20, 14 |
Everything is critical! |
|
Jul 23, 14 |
Brains is weird |
|
Jul 21, 14 |
Fully understand science |
|
Jul 19, 14 |
It slices, it dices! |
|
Jul 15, 14 |
Burnout is a rich man’s game |
|
Jul 9, 14 |
Know it all |
|
Jul 7, 14 |
Grossness gets clicks |
|
Jul 7, 14 |
The Sarantine Mosaic ★★★★☆ |
|
Jul 4, 14 |
The usual porcupine sex analogy |
|
Jul 3, 14 |
Getting looked off |
|
Jul 2, 14 |
Knives on a plane |
|
Jul 1, 14 |
Victoria flowers, with and without colour |
|
Jun 30, 14 |
“Teaching” |
|
Jun 29, 14 |
Midnight sun selfie |
|
Jun 29, 14 |
Bed & Forced Breakfast Socializing |
|
Jun 25, 14 |
Dead word |
|
Jun 25, 14 |
Technically correct |
|
Jun 18, 14 |
Hen-house guarding by foxes in alternative medicine |
|
Jun 18, 14 |
The trouble with answering the phone |
|
Jun 14, 14 |
Epic food safety fail |
|
Jun 14, 14 |
Patrick Stewart supports dying with dignity |
|
Jun 10, 14 |
Publishing strategery: how my blog-to-book plan went bad |
|
Jun 7, 14 |
iPhoto pain again |
|
May 26, 14 |
Proof of progress |
|
May 26, 14 |
“Customer service” |
|
May 26, 14 |
Anatomy of an anatomy course |
|
May 26, 14 |
No Strings Attached ★★★★☆ |
|
May 17, 14 |
Casuistry |
|
May 17, 14 |
Giger is dead |
|
May 3, 14 |
Sucks to be a nutrition website! |
|
May 3, 14 |
Dear Dropbox, You Blew It |
|
May 3, 14 |
Blocking |
|
Apr 28, 14 |
Safe landing after a leap of faith |
|
Apr 28, 14 |
1 in 30 |
|
Apr 28, 14 |
This ain’t over |
|
Apr 24, 14 |
The black coffee change |
|
Apr 24, 14 |
Like gecko feet! |
|
Apr 24, 14 |
How to use curly quotes on Mac OSX and Windows |
|
Apr 19, 14 |
Run like it’s 911 |
|
Apr 13, 14 |
Sticker shock |
|
Apr 7, 14 |
It’s about time |
|
Apr 1, 14 |
A virtual flea market |
|
Mar 25, 14 |
Wounded! |
|
Mar 22, 14 |
Blindness ★★★☆☆ |
|
Mar 22, 14 |
Riddick-ulous again ★★★☆☆ |
|
Mar 19, 14 |
Gears of War |
|
Mar 18, 14 |
Sharing quotes in most ebooks is impossible |
|
Mar 14, 14 |
Brain attacked |
|
Mar 14, 14 |
29 Inches |
|
Mar 10, 14 |
So crucify me, I’m an iconoclast |
|
Mar 10, 14 |
The other crotchet |
|
Mar 3, 14 |
Not computer savvy? Or just chicken? |
|
Mar 2, 14 |
Enough Said ★★★☆☆ |
|
Mar 1, 14 |
The Abominable Science of the Cryptids |
|
Feb 15, 14 |
Distraction-free writing |
|
Feb 15, 14 |
Write like you talk? Yes and no |
|
Feb 15, 14 |
What writing success means to me (and more on writing) |
|
Feb 15, 14 |
The Monuments Men ★★★☆☆ |
|
Feb 14, 14 |
Ender’s Game ★★☆☆☆ |
|
Feb 12, 14 |
Fitness mission accomplished |
|
Feb 12, 14 |
Caring about language details |
|
Feb 12, 14 |
Such a cockalorum |
|
Feb 11, 14 |
Ever get the sounds of words stuck in your head? |
|
Feb 10, 14 |
The oldest title |
|
Feb 6, 14 |
Sabbatical or meat grinder? About the word “sabbatical” |
|
Nov 22, 13 |
Last post for 500 miles |
|
Nov 16, 13 |
Angry Fonzie |
|
Nov 15, 13 |
Kevin Trudeau jailed |
|
Nov 14, 13 |
The emergency preparedness challenge |
|
Nov 14, 13 |
Sort of an obsessed freak |
|
Nov 14, 13 |
Well, there was a squirrel |
|
Nov 14, 13 |
Sentient and bitchy |
|
Nov 7, 13 |
Adobe’s installers have made no progress |
|
Nov 1, 13 |
Poltergeist diagnosed |
|
Nov 1, 13 |
Dork factor 9 |
|
Oct 28, 13 |
“Late for meeting” is a hit |
|
Oct 24, 13 |
Pseudo-science is all grown up |
|
Oct 24, 13 |
I can’t hear you |
|
Oct 24, 13 |
Honey, I’m home! But you knew that already… |
|
Oct 16, 13 |
Tomorrow, the world |
|
Oct 8, 13 |
“Danger Park”? |
|
Oct 1, 13 |
Psychic didn’t see it coming |
|
Sep 29, 13 |
No comment |
|
Sep 29, 13 |
Commenting is not a civil right |
|
Sep 29, 13 |
Argumentum superiorum |
|
Sep 28, 13 |
Gamer ★★☆☆☆ Not much fun |
|
Sep 28, 13 |
Admission ★★★☆☆ Well, I liked it anyway |
|
Sep 25, 13 |
Entitlement voice mail |
|
Sep 25, 13 |
Marsbound etc ★☆☆☆☆ |
|
Sep 20, 13 |
This is web development |
|
Sep 17, 13 |
How tsunamis work (plus bonus cool illusion) |
|
Aug 29, 13 |
Jawbone’s Jambox too clever by two-thirds |
|
Aug 29, 13 |
Elysium ★★☆☆☆ Shallow & noisy |
|
Aug 28, 13 |
The burn burns |
|
Aug 27, 13 |
Things that talk to you in the night |
|
Aug 27, 13 |
Goodbye awesome croissants! |
|
Aug 22, 13 |
Unflappable |
|
Aug 19, 13 |
“I could steal that bike for you.” |
|
Aug 19, 13 |
Agora ★★★★☆ Inspiring then depressing |
|
Aug 19, 13 |
Centurion & The Eagle ★★★☆☆ A pair of 2011 films about the 9th Legion |
|
Aug 9, 13 |
iOS and photo backups |
|
Jul 26, 13 |
BBEdit release notes |
|
Jul 11, 13 |
The Tunguska explosion explained! |
|
Jun 15, 13 |
Emergency power |
|
May 29, 13 |
Room 237 abuses The Shining and Kubrick |
|
May 17, 13 |
Justice is tricky |
|
May 17, 13 |
Finally: Major League Ultimate |
|
May 10, 13 |
Victory! |
|
May 9, 13 |
Gone Girl review |
|
Apr 20, 13 |
Life on Earth: Dazzling interactive animations, and not much else |
|
Apr 13, 13 |
The plight of the mediocre command-line wizard |
|
Mar 20, 13 |
One lucky week: how I was hooked into business by an illusion |
|
Mar 3, 13 |
Spoiler alert! The fate of every successful species is to wipe itself out |
|
Feb 15, 13 |
The Epic Stinging Stump Coincidence |
|
Feb 15, 13 |
Great moments in audio production |
|
Feb 13, 13 |
One of the biggest boners in ethical philosophy |
|
Feb 13, 13 |
Finally, mostly out of pain |
|
Feb 8, 13 |
Spell Tower addiction |
|
Feb 3, 13 |
One of the finest hours of TV drama ever filmed |
|
Jan 16, 13 |
Keurig Fail |
|
Jan 12, 13 |
Most writing is too long |
|
Jan 11, 13 |
Fix the file-drawer effect! |
|
Jan 9, 13 |
Sometimes it takes all my strength not to be superstitious |
|
Jan 8, 13 |
Ignoring hate mail |
|
Jan 6, 13 |
Your scripts, fast! |
|
Dec 23, 12 |
Autocorrection or false-positive generator? One of Mac OS X Lion’s weakest features |
|
Dec 23, 12 |
3 Common Scams in 2012 |
|
Dec 22, 12 |
JW calling |
|
Dec 19, 12 |
Anti-monial |
|
Dec 17, 12 |
Snow White and the Huntsman: under-rated high fantasy ★★★★☆ |
|
Dec 14, 12 |
Rivalling the tragedy of wars, plagues & famines |
|
Dec 13, 12 |
Time Machine: still a janky mess |
|
Dec 3, 12 |
Reading is dangerous |
|
Nov 20, 12 |
I charged my phone with the sun! |
|
Nov 20, 12 |
Evernote, you’re going the wrong way |
|
Nov 14, 12 |
“I’ll make this short” means “I’ll ramble for 10 paragraphs” |
|
Nov 9, 12 |
Why breathing through a tube can be dangerous |
|
Nov 4, 12 |
The Kamakura Buddha |
|
Nov 3, 12 |
White Wedding, Unplugged by Ian Kelly |
|
Oct 15, 12 |
If you think your life sucks, it will |
|
Oct 7, 12 |
I’m a professional buzzkill |
|
Sep 30, 12 |
Linking Etiquette |
|
Sep 30, 12 |
Dragon Dictate ★★☆☆☆ |
|
Sep 30, 12 |
We can do better |
|
Sep 30, 12 |
These cranks drive me nuts |
|
Sep 22, 12 |
Maps perspective |
|
Sep 21, 12 |
Freaked out |
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Sep 19, 12 |
The knowledge needed to save my son’s life |
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Sep 18, 12 |
Happy to know you from internet |
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Sep 17, 12 |
Things 2 is amazing |
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Sep 17, 12 |
No, you may not have my postal code! |
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Sep 11, 12 |
“Typing was women’s work.” |
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Sep 10, 12 |
Fax? Srsly? |
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Sep 10, 12 |
Bluetooth pairing is random |
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Aug 29, 12 |
The future is friendly |
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Aug 6, 12 |
Insecure and unhappy childhoods |
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Aug 4, 12 |
The mind in cancer |
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Aug 3, 12 |
What’s a claim? |
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Aug 3, 12 |
Siri failures |
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Jul 30, 12 |
Major ethical faux pas |
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Jul 27, 12 |
More Prometheus mockery, more! |
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Jul 16, 12 |
No buttons is better |
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Jul 14, 12 |
Prometheus ★☆☆☆☆ The Alien franchise sinks even lower still |
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Jul 14, 12 |
Brain tingling |
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Jul 14, 12 |
Does your head tingle when you learn something cool? |
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Jul 12, 12 |
First Retina Mac |
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Jul 11, 12 |
WebKit forever |
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Jul 10, 12 |
Happy to be alive |
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Jul 9, 12 |
Octopus attack on a seagull |
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Jul 2, 12 |
And there I am again: what it feels like to be regularly cited by strangers around the world |
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Jun 29, 12 |
We Die Alone |
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Jun 29, 12 |
The “integrated medicine” straw-man: |
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Jun 27, 12 |
And who the hell TALKS on their phones anymore anyway? |
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Jun 22, 12 |
Today’s hate/hug mail |
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Jun 13, 12 |
Getting “The Future” Right |
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Jun 11, 12 |
A wonderful Prometheus snark-a-thon |
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Jun 6, 12 |
Some people turn sad awfully young |
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Jun 6, 12 |
The knowledge gap |
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May 24, 12 |
It is known |
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May 15, 12 |
Libel reform well underway in England |
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May 15, 12 |
The rest of the internet is full of it! |
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Apr 19, 12 |
Ghost Protocol ★★★☆☆ Over-rated! |
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Mar 22, 12 |
Talhotblond ★★★☆☆ |
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Mar 15, 12 |
A 50-soak read ★★★★☆: Grammar book read exclusively in the hot tub over more than a year |
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Mar 15, 12 |
No more skimping on web image quality |
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Mar 4, 12 |
xScope ★★★★★ |
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Mar 4, 12 |
Game of Thrones ★★★★☆ |
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Feb 23, 12 |
School + work = oomph |
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Feb 17, 12 |
My NY Times Subscription decision |
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Feb 13, 12 |
Worst exam experience ever? |
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Feb 5, 12 |
“Natural” beauty |
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Jan 30, 12 |
Status update: I’m writing |
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Jan 23, 12 |
How to read a Kindle book on two devices (after someone else in the family) |
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Jan 10, 12 |
Micro-review of iOS 5: Stability has left the building |
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Jan 10, 12 |
Micro-review of iCloud: Better than its sucky predecessor |
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Jan 2, 12 |
What the actual fuck, biology? |
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Jan 1, 12 |
Sherlock Holmes: ★★☆☆☆ |
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Dec 28, 11 |
Three days of gluttony |
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Dec 28, 11 |
Galileo, the first modern scientist |
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Dec 26, 11 |
Don’t Be A Free User |
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Dec 25, 11 |
War Horse ★★☆☆☆ Spielberg at his mediocre worst |
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Dec 10, 11 |
Magical thinking in medicine, then and now |
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Dec 10, 11 |
NCCAM boondoggles |
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Dec 5, 11 |
Help! I’m in love with my unreliable assistant! Siri's stability issues (not recognition), after her debut |
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Nov 23, 11 |
Subatomic comets |
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Nov 23, 11 |
From the Department of Crazy Waste |
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Nov 22, 11 |
The law of low tech standards |
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Nov 20, 11 |
Mac OS X Lion: An allegedly mature OS? |
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Nov 19, 11 |
AS GOD IS MY WITNESS, I WILL NEVER TAP TO SET A TIMER AGAIN! |
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Nov 11, 11 |
Assume I know everything |
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Oct 21, 11 |
Reserving judgement on Steve Jobs’ health choices |
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Oct 6, 11 |
Skeptics, please reserve judgement about Steve Jobs’ alleged use of alternative medicine |
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Oct 2, 11 |
Irony detection |
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Sep 23, 11 |
The far side of Saturn |
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Sep 23, 11 |
Not exactly “shocked” |
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Sep 21, 11 |
Finding the time to write is like finding room for an elephant in the garden shed |
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Sep 20, 11 |
The straw man of climate change denial |
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Sep 16, 11 |
The Ghost Brigades Review |
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Sep 16, 11 |
Reluctant self-publishing |
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Sep 4, 11 |
Troll Hunter micro-review |
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Aug 16, 11 |
my xkcd picks |
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Aug 13, 11 |
Nutty hate mail from a massage therapist |
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Aug 11, 11 |
Save “beg the question”! |
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Jul 27, 11 |
And then I have a valid martini |
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Jul 22, 11 |
Messing with our heads |
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Jul 20, 11 |
Before you install a new version of OS X: important safety tips! |
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Jul 18, 11 |
My first “viral” article? A writer’s case report |
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Jul 3, 11 |
Micro Review: Old Man’s War is pulpy fun from a fine writer |
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Jun 25, 11 |
Super 8 is about itself |
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Jun 25, 11 |
Now that’s how you make a villain! How X-Men First Class got it right (and Lucas got it wrong) |
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Jun 20, 11 |
David Freedman does not actually like science |
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Jun 20, 11 |
Cat tree gets new cat |
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Jun 15, 11 |
My first tech prediction wins! Apple “loses” scrap over subscriptions |
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Jun 1, 11 |
Neat Canada goose behaviour |
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May 13, 11 |
Making the web look more like I’ve been doing it all along |
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Apr 23, 11 |
Mind-changing |
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Mar 31, 11 |
Solar System Ebook/App for the iPad |
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Mar 31, 11 |
New eyes |
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Mar 16, 11 |
Return vs Enter on Facebook |
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Mar 14, 11 |
Ebert rips Battle: LA a new one |
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Mar 13, 11 |
Monsters Mini-Review ★★★★☆ Moody and intriguing, but a bit boring |
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Mar 2, 11 |
What do you think science is? |
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Feb 21, 11 |
Homeopathic placebo for animals |
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Feb 19, 11 |
Re: your stupid link exchange request |
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Feb 19, 11 |
Making something public |
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Feb 18, 11 |
Forge your own future |
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Feb 8, 11 |
Complain to publishers about crap e-books |
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Feb 2, 11 |
Gruber gushes about ebook app |
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Jan 26, 11 |
Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus |
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Jan 20, 11 |
“Ebooks” link got clicked a lot less than “tutorials” link |
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Jan 16, 11 |
Just how open? |
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Jan 14, 11 |
There is a cost to all liberty |
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Jan 12, 11 |
Hypotheses function as beliefs in alternative medicine |
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Jan 4, 11 |
Magazines for life: results of a poll among friends |
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Dec 29, 10 |
Mac Tip: Set a primary email address for a contact |
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Dec 29, 10 |
Gullible masses: stop confusing “studied & disproved" with “unproved” |
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Dec 24, 10 |
The worst that can happen is we can all die in the food riots! |
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Dec 20, 10 |
Bostom.com’s 2010 in photos |
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Dec 17, 10 |
Ruined by offices |
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Dec 14, 10 |
The cause of what does not exist |
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Dec 3, 10 |
Rage HD ★★★★☆ How do they get all those mutants in there? |
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Dec 3, 10 |
God’s text message |
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Nov 28, 10 |
Australian science priorities |
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Nov 23, 10 |
Joss Whedon on the Buffy reboot |
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Nov 21, 10 |
Astronaut describes the view in more detail than we usually get |
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Nov 20, 10 |
Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be ★★★★★ |
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Nov 5, 10 |
Predators ★☆☆☆☆ A weak homage |
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Nov 5, 10 |
IMDb app micro-review |
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Nov 4, 10 |
Plagiarism case study |
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Oct 25, 10 |
Splice ★☆☆☆☆ Not-in-a-good-way creepy |
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Oct 14, 10 |
Immune strength |
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Oct 11, 10 |
The Earth belonged to the Martians |
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Oct 6, 10 |
A “tttask” email address handy after all |
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Oct 5, 10 |
iPad Adoption Rate Fastest Ever, Passing DVD Player |
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Oct 2, 10 |
An existence theorem for true love |
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Sep 28, 10 |
Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books |
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Sep 26, 10 |
So meta! |
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Sep 26, 10 |
Marriage powers, activate! |
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Sep 25, 10 |
Evernote: all your text are belong to us |
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Sep 17, 10 |
Scientists have better things to do than debate “intelligent design” |
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Sep 17, 10 |
Big Suppla |
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Sep 13, 10 |
I has a happy |
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Sep 8, 10 |
Baen gives away science fiction and fantasy ebooks |