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Sat, Nov 28
Troop Beverly Hills
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Wed, Nov 25
# 10 Amazing Staircases Around the Globe
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Mon, Nov 23
# The A.V. Club talks with Richard Dawkins about his new book
The book is about evolution; the interview is about why we disbelieve in it, and what problems that brings up. I like his term "argument from personal incredulity" – I've encountered that one plenty.
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# I Watched This On Purpose: Twilight
"How much of the experience wasn’t a total waste of time? 30 percent." A mystified viewer tries to make sense of a cultural phenomenon. I can understand that.
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# "Drive the biggest vehicle you can afford to drive."
You can't help loving these helpful survival tips, which range from surviving at the expense of others (including the planet) to avoiding risk by avoiding ever doing anything. Aces!
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Tue, Nov 17
# Agloe, New York
The fictional town that one day wasn't.
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Sun, Nov 15
Monsters, Inc.
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Thu, Nov 12
# Contrasts in How Google Suggests Searches
"There's probably no piece of information that would better show what's on someone's mind than their stream of searches." This is why attorneys in some obscenity trials tried to use aggregated Google searches to establish a "community standard." If your community is searching for torture porn, it passes the test, even if your community wouldn't admit it in a phone survey.
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Tue, Nov 10
# Hate Book
Yet again, I coin a semi-obvious phrase only to find out I'm late to the game. Good thing, too; I never would've executed it this well.
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# Counting the Stars
Metacritic crunches the numbers on movie reviews. Here, crunching Metacritic's numbers reveals some interesting trends. (Among them: Ebert is a tad... forgiving. Something a scan of his Knowing review will confirm.)
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Sat, Nov 7
Thu, Nov 5
Wed, Nov 4
# Hosts of the 2010 (82nd) Academy Awards: Alec Baldwin & Steve Martin
Wow. Ten best picture nominees and this announcement in the same year. I don't know whether to hate the Academy, or take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant.
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Tue, Nov 3
# How To Use An Apostrophe
We should print this out and drop it over U.S. cities.
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# Leno says he'd return to Tonight if NBC asked
Talk about your thinly veiled "fuck you"s – he also says Conan's destined to lose viewers and Dave was always a scuzbag. Wow.
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Mon, Nov 2
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