21st August 2007
Engadget. The question that immediately leaps to mind, of couse, is: Why?
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20th August 2007
Read it. Truly, you cannot make this stuff up.
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16th August 2007
Read it. The Communist Chinese are forbidding reincarnation without government authorization.
Where the personal is really political.
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15th August 2007
NYT. “Rules?! In a knife fight?!“
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15th August 2007
LGF. Turn on the light, and the roaches scuttle.
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15th August 2007
Engadget. How long would it take to remove the RFID chip and sell it on the black market? Take a guess.
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14th August 2007
LGF. Truly, you cannot make this stuff up.
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14th August 2007
NYT.
The mayor of Minneapolis cautioned that Minnesota transportation officials’ swift timetable to replace the collapsed Interstate bridge could overlook safety and the unique elements necessary to make it a memorial.
Truly, you cannot make this stuff up.
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14th August 2007
NYT. Guess it didn’t work.
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12th August 2007
Read it. Then realize that this person actually got paid real money to write this, and it was published in a major newspaper.
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6th August 2007
LanguageLog. Nerds as an oppressed minority group? Uh, I dunno….
Steve Sailer has more to say on the subject; some very useful stuff, too. Apparently he’s been pondering this for some time.
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