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  1. Mystery: why are Nike football cleats so narrow and a size or half-size smaller than almost all other shoes on the market? 7:11 PM Dec 10th from web
  2. An idea for a story: person whose mp3 shuffler repeats same order every time is told repeatedly that he doesn't understand statistics. 5:52 PM Dec 5th from web
  3. Full LRB archives available (to subscribers)--a wonderful (and distracting) thing. Am reading Empson on A Midsummer Night's Dream. 3:24 PM Dec 5th from web
  4. How common is a dream of chess where you can reproduce the board upon waking? This concludes today's epitrochasm. 8:40 AM Dec 5th from web
  5. @jimmilles you have to hang a towel on a hook? Is this an example of paralysis-by-invention or mere hygienic squeamishness? 8:25 AM Dec 5th from web in reply to jimmilles
  6. Bad Sex in Fiction Award among most foolish of literary awards. How about Bad Sex in Non-Fiction (memoirs, etc.)? 8:19 AM Dec 5th from web
  7. But I haven't read anything he's written since _The Tommyknockers_, so perhaps not a good judge. 8:16 AM Dec 5th from web
  8. Read 350 pp. of Under the Dome last night; King's developing a "late style." 8:11 AM Dec 5th from web
  9. Am not at all interested in phenomenon of old songs becoming popular again after being used in commercials. "Driver's Seat," etc. 8:10 AM Dec 5th from web
  10. @amndw2 use a bookmark; you know it's not practical to publish footnotes when there are many of them and/or they're discursive. 8:45 AM Dec 4th from web in reply to amndw2
  11. A commenter there remarks that a Southern accent counts against you, along with not knowing how to hold a tea cup. 7:26 AM Dec 2nd from web
  12. Academia and class: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/does-academia-including-philosophy-exclude-people-based-on-class.html 7:22 AM Dec 2nd from web
  13. anyone have a problem with firefox and google reader where, after a certain period, keyboard shortcuts stop working and popups are blocked? 9:38 AM Nov 30th from web
  14. @gpe 1969-1973. Am strict declensionist. 7:31 AM Nov 30th from web in reply to gpe
  15. @jbj are you a high kick practitioner, unusually tall, or just good at tripping? 7:20 AM Nov 30th from web in reply to jbj
  16. according to OED, "Lafayette" is another name for a spot (Liostomus xanthurus). 6:09 PM Nov 26th from web
  17. I recognize few or none of the trending topics on your average Twitter sidebar. Phase is waxing crescent, for one thing. 1:37 PM Nov 23rd from web
  18. @scottekaufman That's an easy one: don't or none. 1:24 PM Nov 23rd from web in reply to scottekaufman
  19. I think the forthcoming edition of the Biographical Dictionary of Episodic Television calls him the greatest character actor in the medium. 1:22 PM Nov 23rd from web
  20. Have watched a few episodes of Sons of Anarchy--main observation is that the great Dayton Callie is under-used. 1:21 PM Nov 23rd from web