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  1. Now that music stores are gone, will they make CD packages easier to open?
  2. Katz to Koestler: “We all have inferiority complexes of various sizes, but yours isn’t a complex—it’s a cathedral.” http://tiny.cc/d2Wm2
  3. Art Tatum: "I don't feel that I have all the technical facilities that I would like to have." http://tiny.cc/3HUF1
  4. Type "cowen marginal" into Google and it suggests "time management" to complete the query.
  5. Against all odds, Grant Hill seems to have achieved a mature (and healthy) version of his old form.
  6. Twitter now reports "(2)" - or whatever the number of new tweets is - so I decided to keep the window closed altogether, to get work done.
  7. Jason Kottke: "And all have that dizzying sense of otherness and surprise common to great books, an affluence of vitality."
  8. @ezraklein: the hottest dish in the DC area is probably a Korean seafood soup/gloop in Annandale.
  9. *V* suggests that invading aliens will hire a PR firm, though not a subtle one.
  10. Montaigne: “Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.”
  11. Jimi Hendrix's best work was on rhythm rather than lead guitar.
  12. @caseyang: Schnabel and Richter also have good recordings of Beethoven's *Tempest* sonata.
  13. Bill James and Bill Simmons are two of the greatest living social scientists. Seriously.
  14. Will try to dress up as Andean peasant for Robin Hanson's costume party tonight.
  15. @animalcollector: I was poking fun at Bryan.
  16. Wikipedia: Anthropologist Margaret Mead described Beloit as "America in microcosm."
  17. Bryan says: "Why don't we just drop the phrase "relative status" and call it excellence?"
  18. I don't trust Carter, an aging Kobe, or Garnett's knees, so put me down for San Antonio. LBJ still needs wing man.
  19. Buying random French box sets in jazz, blues, gospel, at Paris HMV is an excellent music strategy.
  20. Philosophical MR reader tells me I must see *Astroboy* -- true or false?