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On Saturday I saw my favorite film of the year so far (excepting my beloved POTC), which was a full-length documentary about asparagus. Stop laughing. Really, Asparagus! (a Stalk-umentary), which just won the "best of" award at the Rural Route Film Fest
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What better way to end your workweek than with a dose of complete and utter slackitude? That is, if you're even still at the office. Yeah, we saw you trying to sneak out early, but we know you were just trying to emulate these guys: Famous Figures Who Ne
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If you haven't eaten lunch by now, you might want to do that right now, because you're certainly not going to want much to eat or drink after reading these thorougly unappetizing and cautionary tales from Forbidden Knowledge. Hey, don't say we didn't warn
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It's well established on this blog that I'm fascinated by bank robberies. (Not that I'd ever steal anything except copyrighted images and the occasional MP3 myself, no sir.) Thus, for your second installment of Forbidden Friday, I present to you: Great B
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One of my favorite blogs at the moment is Effect Measure, which is theoretically all about pressing public health issues but also includes such nuggets as "Paul Revere was a member of the first local Board of Health in the United States" (and that's just
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Wired has a cool article in the new issue about commercial space travel. "The first private launches could happen next year for up to $250,000 a ticket," they say. So let's see... the down payment on my new home, or the trip to space? Hmmm. That's a tough
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Great. David starts the day talking about the Nobel Peace Prize and I'm all like "hot chicks!" Thanks, David; I feel so very intellectual.  So according to a new study in Nature, if you show a macho man a picture of one of the aforementioned hot chick
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