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  1. Judd Apatow's *Funny People* is a surprisingly excellent movie.
  2. Today I saw someone building a new house. Really.
  3. Leon, Nicaragua: incredible corn tamales for 50 cents, carried around in baskets on womens' heads, better than almost anything in Paris.
  4. Leon, Nicaragua is one of the very nicest cities in all of Latin America, like a dream you think doesn't really exist but it does.
  5. Hugo Chavez: "If the climate was a bank, they would have already saved it." Via Angus.
  6. The very young Paul Samuelson bore an odd resemblance to, of all people, Buddy Holly.
  7. Correct Pynchon tinyurl is now: bit.ly/4R6eET
  8. Profile of young Thomas Pynchon, http://tinyurl.com/yej5mlg.
  9. Jason Kottke on modern fame: "How will we think about death when someone we know or admire dies every day for the rest of our lives?"
  10. "I cannot rule out with 95% confidence the null hypothesis that Tyler wakes up every morning and says, "How can I annoy Bob Murphy today?""
  11. "One-third of all known species of dinosaur were now thought merely to be younger versions of other dinosaurs." - Harper's Index
  12. "After resigning from M.I.T. in 2007 for lying on her résumé, Marilee Jones has re-emerged as a college admissions consultant."
  13. "This article … in no way reflects the Speaker's views today." http://tinyurl.com/yjap6hk
  14. New category: "Things that make Robin Hanson spring to mind," http://tiny.cc/DFQzz.
  15. Over lunch, Robin Hanson declared a tentative allegiance to the doctrine of panpsychism.
  16. Was it the best season of *Curb Your Enthusiasm* yet? LD had a major hand in every script.
  17. So many people use the word "methodology" when "method" would be correct.
  18. I have now read a co-authored letter of recommendation for a job candidate.
  19. @ehaglund: Rome also has the world's best Ethiopian food, try that.
  20. @ehaglund: Rome a poor food city, too many tourists, but eat innards, etc. in Testacchio plus try Michelin recs.