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The magic button -- Make Everything OK. You're welcome.

The hardest word-search of them all: "After 100 years we've gone through about two per cent [of the Oxyrhynchus papyri], so we thought it was time we called in some help." Now they're crowdsourcing the transcriptions. Requires no knowledge of ancient Greek: it's more like a pattern-matching game. V.cool.

Fairy tale posters. I'm partial to the design for "The Pied Piper" myself.

Burned by the Courts, on the "McDonald's Coffee" lawsuit. This is why, if you ever mention "tort reform" to me, I will either lecture you as though you're an idiot, mock you relentlessly, or stop talking to you entirely.

Signs Your Man May Be Cheating: "When you try to talk to him about the future of your relationship, a bunch of aces fall out of his sleeve."

One of those things that no one would believe in a story: "I didn't really think about what I was doing, I just adopted the habits of stalking chickens..."

SageFight by Daniel Solis (official site) looks awesome. I want to find a dozen ridiculous like-minded individuals and try it.

Date: 2011-08-10 10:21 pm (UTC)
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Long story short, if the US had proper universal medical care and government regulatory bodies, that old lady would not have been driven to sue McDonald's for damages due to scalding coffee in 1994.

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"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen

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