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""I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours."
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"Another data point, if this isn't completely played out yet: compare BoingBoing's policies page as of June 25th and their policies page now.
"We reserve the right to unpublish or refuse to unpublish anything for any or no reason."
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"Anyone have that comment still sitting in their cache? Can we get a screen grab?
Not a screen grab, but here's my browser cache file with the original comment in it...." [
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"Unless things have changed dramatically in the last year, GPS-ready cameras are uniformly way more expensive than similar-spec but not GPS-ready cameras. My solution, when I want geocoded photos, has been to make sure the camera's clock is..." [
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"My wife's bachelorette party was held at a science museum where normally they have birthday parties and science demonstrations for 'tweens. They were happy to chang a banner to 'happy wedding' and do the demos for a group of 30-somethings, though,..." [
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"I've been in your position, fairlysober, and I feel for you. It really sucks. My former fiancée and I had started dating in college, I'd tried to break up with her a few times because I knew she wasn't the one, and eventually I gave up trying..." [
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"Or, if you don't mind converting one file at a time, I've thrown that command into a quick web interface: http://www.elsewhere.org/tmp/meficonvert/
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"On the lighter side, there's the classic Electron Band Structure In Germanium, My Ass." [
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"Some numbers, from devices I have at hand (measured with a Watts Up Pro):
Kyocera wall-wart cell phone charger, 5.2VDC, 400mA: 1.4 watts while not charging, 5.8 watts while charging.
Sony power brick AC-L15A charger for my camera: no measurable..." [
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"Which northwest? The Pacific Northwest? Have you seen us here? I'd be very surprised if anybody were making $200k in fashion here. So, my answer: marry into Microsoft money, and dabble in fashion...." [
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"I see
and I hear
and I speak no evil;
I carry
no malice
within my breast;
yet quite without
wishing
a man to the Devil
one may be
permitted
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"But I'm sane enough to know [...] that I couldn't very well ban her from going or anything, so all I could do was suck it up and try and make the best of a night at home by myself.
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"If you don't want to vote, but you do want to show up on the lists of who voted, go to your polling place and sign in, then submit an empty ballot. Or write in cartoon characters for every position. Or, you know, as long as you're there, you could..." [
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"Maybe she just got really sick of that job, and couldn't figure out a way to leave it without also leaving you. From the amount of detail about your business you included in your question, it seems that the business is a central part of your life. If..." [
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"Or you could just buy the CD online and while you're waiting for it to be delivered so you can rip it to mp3, pretend that you've bought a download but the network really, really sucks...." [
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"Yeah, that letter from Jerry you posted on your blog? That sounded fairly sensible to me. Obviously it didn't sound sensible to you. Are you bipolar? Have you been acting in ways that others, especially your ex, might interpret as erratic or..." [
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"My favorite bit about this whole thing is that two of the disappeared posts at BoingBoing are coverage of Google dropping some sex blogs from their index:
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