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dear lazyweb: gift advice?
my very cool mother is turning 80. she is a culture vulture intellectual who loves the arts, literature, european travel, all that stuff. i want to get something memorable and appropriate. suggestions?
in lieu of suggestions you can leave “your mom” jokes if you want.
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-13-2009
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So what is the Sensitive Female Chord Progression, exactly? It’s simple enough for the music theory-inclined: vi-IV-I-V.
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The real issue stemmed from the fact that swimming 2,100 miles in 25 days is impossible.
post by mail is lagging so this may dupe
here’s Madoff II!
http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2009/02/12/stanford_intern.html
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-12-2009
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Santiago Meza Lopez, known as El Pozolero (the Stew Maker), says he stuffed bodies into barrels of lye for drug cartels. He may be a good source of information about missing loved ones.
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nerd humor but pretty good.
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Many biologists now argue that the tree concept is obsolete and needs to be discarded. "We have no evidence at all that the tree of life is a reality" says Bapteste. That bombshell has even persuaded some that our fundamental view of biology needs to change.
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-11-2009
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blocks of pink salt, which is way cooler than it sounds
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Some very high quality madness and outsider typography here
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Rebellious Texans have kidnapped the President of the U.S.A. His future — and indeed the future of the country — depends on a band of fearless Israelis whose courage has been tested in other wars.
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name your design company
Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-10-2009
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gigantic meat "food" thing. just click okay.
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"Novel" about Islamist takeover of the U.S. Timecube ahoy.
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hagiography of sugar water marketers + mad science = pepsi timecube
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generates semi random noodle soups
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THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
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IDEA GENERATOR
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Useless Japanese invention, or malarkey? You decide.
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"It looks like it’s possessed," says Denver resident Samantha Horoschak. "I have a huge fear of flying anyway, and to be greeted at the airport by a demon horse — it’s not a soothing experience."
Suspicious thought of the day
All of these “25 random things about me” and “answer these 10 questions” chain quizzes will work very well as data mining when you’re trying to figure out the personal Q&A information used in website security systems.
Inaccuweather
From an AP story about the Australian fires at http://wvgazette.com/News/200902090356 via zebulon_y:

Oh, and we have chaparral, dude. With the SAME TREES.
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Guys do you even know what you’re referring to here?
