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  1. George Bernard Shaw wrote that "all progress depends on the unreasonable man." He musn't have had to deal with that unreasonable man.
  2. And the dissertation rollercoaster continues. Amazing how good advice can make one feel good even in the face of a monumental obvious error.
  3. Odd and the Frost Giants.
  4. New post on Brain Drain: Where's Bing? (http://bit.ly/4tbR9h)
  5. Interesting @NewYorker book review about "Rumors in an age of unreason": http://bit.ly/9b4f8 (via Journal of #Murketing).
  6. McDonald's WiFi hotspot FTW!
  7. RT @FakeAPStylebook: Avoid the archaic term "lunatic." Specify whether the subject suffers from Hulkamania or Macho Madness
  8. Sheesh. Wish I learned about @FakeAPStylebook sooner. Hilarious stuff. Discovered it via this @Wired Epicenter piece: http://bit.ly/12qzH1
  9. People ask me for directions with surprising regularity, even when I'm completely lost. Does this mean I look like I know where I'm going?
  10. 5km = 43'13"
  11. Suddenly, things are not-so-looking-up for my dissertation.
  12. It would seem that Adobe Acrobat Reader still does some things better than Apple preview. Mac users, take note.
  13. New post on Brain Drain: (No) Candle (http://bit.ly/4rHpY5)
  14. Brain Drain October Rewind: 9 new posts and 325 pageviews from 211 visits by 98 absolute unique visitors. (http://bit.ly/BrainDrain)
  15. Rain + Wind = Weekend Internet Outage. At least that was the worst of it.
  16. If someone could just figure out how to export results from R to Word (other than cut and paste and aside from xtable), life would be good.
  17. Some great musings on grammar in comics (applicable to writing in general) in the first third of this article: http://bit.ly/47vI5D (CBR)
  18. New post on Brain Drain: I Got Me an iPhone (http://bit.ly/3iqxx3)
  19. The title of this @Wired article speaks for itself: "Microsoft Shocked - Shocked! - by Offensive Family Guy Content" (http://bit.ly/2Vb9hH)
  20. Neat article on how the PS2 made it to be nine years old: http://bit.ly/1dVIUa (CNET)