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American social hygiene posters

nj points to the University of Minnesota's remarkable collection of social hygiene posters. Everything from the 1922 "Danger in Familiarity"...

Jed

September 18, 2003
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Favorite places

Thanks to Kam, I now have a couple of new favorite places: Favorite place in Salt Lake City even though...

Jed

September 18, 2003
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Can’t fight Mother Nature

A hurricane FAQ (from the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory) explains why we can't use nukes to stop hurricanes ('cause,...

Jed

September 18, 2003
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Partial series

I've been seeing grammatical constructions like this a lot lately (examples made up by me), both in fiction and elsewhere:...

Jed

September 17, 2003
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Two unrelated tidbits

According to a Voice of America article, Condoleezza Rice sez the administration never said Saddam Hussein was involved in the...

Jed

September 17, 2003
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Gay penguins

Cute little article from Columbia News Service about gay penguins at the New York Aquarium. The best thing, though, is...

Jed

September 17, 2003
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Eyebenders

More excellent optical illusions from a Japanese site that appears to specialize in them, along the same lines as an...

Jed

September 16, 2003
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Science determines personality

Sometimes the results of allegedly scientific studies end up sounding about as valid and relevant as web-based personality quizzes. For...

Jed

September 16, 2003
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Which “Other City” Should You Live In?

In case you don't have a copy of The Book of All Cities, there's now a quiz that allows you...

Jed

September 16, 2003
Filed under: Memes, Speculative Fiction
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MIT students beat Vegas at blackjack

Interesting story: "throughout the 1990s," a rotating group of MIT students took regular trips to Vegas, where they used expert...

Jed

September 16, 2003
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Go me!

I confess to feeling a little smug at the moment, having just written a 5000-word story in a little over...

Jed

September 16, 2003
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Fiction and fiction

Finished my story for workshop and handed that in. Then noticed that the deadline for Mary Anne's Best of Blowfish...

Jed

September 14, 2003
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