Posts from 2005
January
Letter from Chick-fil-a | January 2
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Personal
Siouxsie... | January 2
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Entertainment
People of the world, speak more precisely | January 3
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Culture
Linguistics
Pedantry
McDonald’s: Fire your ad agency | January 3
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Culture
New spelling lesson | January 3
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News!
9/11 Strike on Pentagon a Missile or Military aircraft | January 4
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Politics
Please, please, let Ashlee’s career be over now | January 5
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Entertainment
Great news from CNN! | January 5
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News!
Cead Mille Failte | January 6
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General
New band that has knocked me off my rocker | January 8
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Entertainment
The problem with videos these days | January 9
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Culture
White Noise Review, Ideas, Meaning | January 17
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Entertainment
Lite on the blog-activity lately... | January 17
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Travelogue
Reading and Flying.. | January 17
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Personal
Great Saturday Night Live this weekend | January 17
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Entertainment
Apple’s Sweet Spot | January 18
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Apple
Bush’s iPod | January 18
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Entertainment
Is stevengharms an e-snob? | January 20
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Critique
Ruby | January 23
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Ruby
Postcards from Hiroshima | January 23
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Personal
Merlin made me a Hipster PDA | January 23
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Culture
Grape Gummy | January 23
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Modern_times
Rilo Kiley | January 23
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Music
Closure on an internet meme: Hopkin Green Frog | January 23
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Culture
Back from a long weekend in Lake Tahoe | January 30
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Personal
I still despise Ann Coulter | January 31
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Entertainment
February
Holy Hopkin Green Frog! They found my wallet! | February 1
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Culture
Read your memoes | February 11
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Politics
Happy Valentine’s Day | February 14
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Personal
A grammatical question | February 17
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Linguistics
Being ones father’s son. | February 17
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Personal
Want to learn LISP on Mac OS X | February 19
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Lisp
Osx
Programming
The very well researched: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas | February 19
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Entertainment
White House seeds audience to toss softballs, run gay porn site? | February 19
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Politics
Am I allergic to Grape Nuts? | February 19
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Personal
Thompson kills self, self-euthanasia | February 21
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Culture
The evolution of meaning | February 22
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Education
Modern_times
New Mole-a-skeen-uh | February 23
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Personal
What is the opposite of recursion? | February 23
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Art_and_design
Is James Dedman ill? | February 24
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Friends
Down and out in the suburban paradise | February 26
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Personal
A weekend spent battling Lisp | February 27
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Lisp
Programming
I’m sorry, but Scientology is kooky... | February 28
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Personal
March
Ah, the follies of youth... | March 1
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Politics
Lisp problem solved | March 4
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Lisp
American Aesthetics, European Splendour | March 7
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Art_and_design
This pine box ain’t strong enough to contain these afro locks! | March 11
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Music
I enjoy "Two and a Half Men" | March 11
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Entertainment
The magic of imagination, Ed Emberley | March 17
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Personal
A-ha haters come to Mice’s assistance | March 17
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Culture
Personal
Leigh, and others, if you want to send me mail me | March 18
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Politics
I hate those bastards in traffic | March 18
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Modern_times
Lessons for my children Volume I | March 20
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Personal
RIP, DEA | March 20
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Politics
Sometimes I envy... | March 24
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Personal
Blogging
Which OS are YOU? | March 29
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Personal
Linux
I’m sick | March 30
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Personal
My sickening fascination with Paul Graham’s work | March 31
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Internet_culture
Whoever is doing marketing at Burger King understand viral marketing | March 31
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Entertainment
Internet_culture
Memes
The Schiavo Case | March 31
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Personal
April
Just saw "Sin City" | April 1
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Entertainment
Urban Ruins | April 3
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Art_and_design
The FCC and ‘decency’ | April 3
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Modern_times
Politics
In a meeting, thus I tend the James Dedman Music Challenge | April 4
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Entertainment
On broadcast propriety | April 4
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Entertainment
Modern_times
I loved Bowie in the early 80s | April 4
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Music
If I had a dinner table and my choice of diners | April 6
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Entertainment
The psychology of rate-me sites | April 8
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Internet_culture
Writer porn | April 11
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Writing
Quiz Time: What is this? | April 12
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Modern_times
Another funny conversation with the Social Bobcat | April 12
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Modern_times
Few things are as painful | April 16
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Entertainment
WHERE IS THE DVD OF HAL HARTLEY’S TRUST? | April 16
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Entertainment
Can’t we all just get along? vi vs. emacs | April 17
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Vi
Emacs
Editors
Unix
Internet_culture
The Italian direction of Law & Order | April 22
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Entertainment
Things you may not have known about The British Monarchy | April 24
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Education
An odd film career | April 24
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Movies
When Tivo goes bad | April 26
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Entertainment
Politics
Toys
May
Neither edgy, nor timely, but still insanely funny | May 1
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Modern_times
A bit of reading | May 1
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Books
How amazing is Patricia Clarkson? | May 1
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Entertainment
Movies
IM chat and drink coffee around The Social Bobcat at your own risk | May 4
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Entertainment
Separated at birth? | May 4
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Music
Yes, I’m the pervert at the coffee shop | May 8
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Culture
Thoughts on Tiger | May 8
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Osx
Finished Eat Shoots & Leaves | May 8
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Art_and_design
If you want to sell me something, a recipe | May 8
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Arete
Art_and_design
Entertainment
Haaayyy yoooouuu guyyyyyss! Goonies 2 !!!! | May 9
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Entertainment
Clerical Errors for Clerics | May 10
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Philosophy_proper
Need a job? Proofreader at AOL? | May 13
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Critique
Culture
Entertainment
Great news; "Revenge of the Sith" rocked | May 19
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Movies
Finished Snow Crash | May 25
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Books
Mysticism
I can’t draw... | May 25
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Worklife
More thoughts on Stem Cell and the Culture of Life | May 26
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Politics
Bush
Hurry up, Macauly! | May 26
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Art_and_design
Entertainment
Music
June
Steven Morrissey, the Elder | June 1
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Music
On the subject of "Hollaback Girl" | June 1
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Music
A hat-trick of music related posts | June 1
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Music
In the city, in training | June 2
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Personal
Early morning graphic novel reading: V for Vendetta | June 4
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Books
Culture
I like "Numb3rs" ? and it’s been renewed! | June 4
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Entertainment
Finished The World is Flat | June 4
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Books
Culture
I’m secretly paranoid | June 4
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Culture
Modern_times
Personal
I love ancient software that’s artistic sensible and impeccably well designed | June 4
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Culture
Software
Paris Hilton porn-burger | June 4
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Critique
Culture
Modern_times
Emailing Corporate Overlords: McDonald’s | June 12
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Critique
Culture
Modern_times
McDonalds wrote back | June 13
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Critique
Culture
Modern_times
The Downing Street Memo | June 13
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Politics
What is the function of religion? | June 14
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Culture
Steven’s Pic for "Whatsinyourbag" | June 15
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Personal
Pictures
Waiting for the movers.... | June 15
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Personal
If I were to turn to the Dark Side of the Force.. | June 17
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Personal
More mau-mauing McDonalds | June 20
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Critique
Culture
Normally I’m nice to Scientologists | June 20
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Scientology
A movie cliché? that must go away` | June 23
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Critique
Movies
Sports news! | June 23
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Sports
Frustrated, and wanting Kant | June 25
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Philosophy_proper
‘Horns win College World Series! | June 26
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Sports
HD vertigo | June 26
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Toys
Tom Cruise, Idiot. | June 28
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Culture
Entertainment
Modern_times
Finished Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim | June 28
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Entertainment
Books
Hurry up, Nick Carter | June 30
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Entertainment
Separated at Birth? | June 30
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Entertainment
July
Watching some noir this long weekend | July 4
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Life_and_death
Movies
Summer Insomnia | July 6
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Toys
What’d you do with your 3 day weekend? Damaged Furniture :( ... | July 6
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Personal
Hillary Clinton: Republicans do pop-culture idiocy, close-mindedness, indignation better. | July 15
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Politics
Mythos | July 24
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Politics
Bush
Emacs v. vi is rooted in the love of Lisp | July 24
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Vi
Emacs
Editors
Unix
Programming
Internet_culture
A happy day to us, my Bretheren | July 29
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Internet_culture
Mice visits the recent Internet Past | July 30
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Internet_culture
August
Finished Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | August 3
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Critique
Murder | August 4
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Philosophy_proper
Hooray for foamorder.com | August 4
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Personal
New Bedroom Set | August 4
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Personal
/usr/bin/vacation | August 4
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Personal
Nasty Stuff: Never eat pulparindo | August 4
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Personal
Vacation wrap-up... | August 14
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Personal
Travelogue
Flying through Melbotisland | August 14
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Internet_culture
The War on Terror, as seen by a Unix admin | August 18
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Geopolitics
Bush
Steven On: Not living up to your potential | August 18
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Entertainment
Intelligent Falling | August 19
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Modern_times
Politics
This is my first test of ecto | August 20
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Ecto
Great news for Lispers! | August 21
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Lisp
Osx
It’s been a while since my last quiz post... | August 22
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Personal
What's harder to find...? | August 23
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Video_games
One of my most bad-assest toys (er, metatoys) | August 23
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Toys
Don’t we all love... | August 24
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Entertainment
Going to see Interpol in San Jose! | August 25
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Entertainment
Yet another vote for "The Forty Year-Old Virgin" | August 25
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Entertainment
Revelation: The Movies Suck! | August 25
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Entertainment
Lauren Bacall... | August 26
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Modern_times
Reading the Houston Press | August 26
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Travelogue
Grammatical or Spelling error? | August 26
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Ruminations
Dust devils on Mars | August 28
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General
Meta
Space
Reality Check: War on Drugs | August 29
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Politics
Where were you when unix power tools were first mentioned on WB evening soaps? | August 29
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Entertainment
Heirloom boots | August 29
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Personal
September
Hooray for George Bush Republicanism | September 5
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Politics
Ethical birth-control OR The Coldplay Experience? | September 6
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Books
Critique
Music
Mysticism
Some people think, great God will come from the sky... | September 8
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Politics
Finished The Historian | September 11
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Books
Some things must be left behind, New Orleans is one of them | September 13
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Culture
Politics
Interpol! | September 16
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Critique
Culture
Entertainment
Overheard at the Interpol concert | September 19
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Entertainment
Is the world ready for the return of NPH* ? | September 19
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Entertainment
The Children of the Gulf Coast look Homeward (Angel) | September 23
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Personal
Politics
George W. Bush – Today Show Weatherman | September 25
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Politics
Finished...Macroscope | September 25
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Books
Critique
Worried about the new season of Numb3rs... | September 26
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Critique
Culture
Entertainment
Wisdom comes from IBM | September 26
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Entertainment
Ruminations
Internet_culture
Weekend wrap-up | September 26
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Personal
Mad propz to mice! | September 26
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Personal
Purchased ecto | September 26
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Cocoa
Blogging
Steven on the state of pop music | September 26
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Critique
Entertainment
Music
The upside of Empire: Rudyard Kipling | September 26
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Critique
Culture
Entertainment
Concert promoters need a reality check | September 27
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Critique
Culture
Entertainment
Music
October
Political map... | October 4
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Politics
Back from Austin | October 5
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Travelogue
Austin
Google Wifi | October 9
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Mountain_view
REVEALED: Cameron Crowe’s "Elizabethtown" Secret Formula | October 10
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Entertainment
The social bobcat lashes out against FoxNews | October 14
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Critique
An in-depth explanation of the Asherah virus, as described in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash | October 17
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Books
Critique
Entertainment
November
Mysteries of the high-tech work environment... | November 2
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Internet_culture
Personal
In sickness | November 2
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Meta
Personal
During my trip to Austin last month.... | November 5
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Austin
Travelogue
I bought a new snowboard this week | November 5
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Personal
Toys
The Bay Area is special because... | November 13
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Culture
Movies
Posting at a different blog | November 18
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Personal
Good movie weekend | November 18
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Entertainment
My thoughts on "Walk the Line" over at Nanostalgia | November 22
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Movies
Good movie weekend | November 22
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Entertainment
How I handled the Good Movie Weekend | November 22
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Movies
I love my apple all the time | November 22
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Apple
Toys
Nicky Hilton, reality. Reality, Nicky Hilton | November 22
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Culture
Mysticism
Cointstar == Book Magic! | November 22
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Books
Truth in Advertising | November 23
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Politics
Dr. Wayne Dyer: Living an Inspired Life | November 23
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Entertainment
Vaya con Miyagi | November 25
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Entertainment
Rip
Real life intervenes... | November 27
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Personal
Can’t we all just get along... | November 28
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Culture
What I loved Most about Kill Bill 2 | November 30
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Entertainment
December
I love the Silent Hill series of video games | December 1
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Entertainment
Ho Ho Ho | December 13
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Personal
Reviewers without reviews | December 18
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Critique
Culture
Meta
Modern_times
Movies
Posted a number of articles over at nanostalgia.com | December 18
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Critique
Culture
Poetic communication | December 18
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Writing
When eating a Kasugai gummy I remember the wisdom of Social Bobcat-san | December 18
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Personal
A bit of Christmas eros | December 22
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Philosophy_proper
Does Steven G. Harms dislike the red states? | December 29
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Personal
post-Christmas | December 29
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Personal