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  1. Never ran into the need to resort to "amn't" until just now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
  2. Salem is "Witch City" but the events that led to the trials took place in what is now Danvers and the whole point is there were no witches.
  3. "Some Roman families can be traced into the 7th century, in 1 case (emperor Avitus - http://bit.ly/4DrxVv) beyond 700" http://bit.ly/1vHpAF
  4. The rise of environmental monasticism. "Saint Simeon the Pole-Sitter" for the 21st century: http://bit.ly/nocash
  5. Two arcane words that go good together: "wit" and "shod", as in: http://bit.ly/10kWwb
  6. Latest sunrises ever: with Daylight Savings Time extending into Nov., sunrise now even later than during the Solstice. http://bit.ly/sunriz
  7. It's funny how the twitter spam accounts are followed by nothing but other spam accounts. It would make a good algorithm to clean them out.
  8. Candyland in < 1 minute. Preset the cards: Queen Frostine; Double Purple; Double Purple; Purple. Kids cry, but you're back to football...
  9. 10/14: Manliest day on the calendar: Battle of Hastings, 1066; Eisenhower's birth, 1890; Roosevelt's speech after shooting, 1912. #trivia
  10. @waxpancake Yes. Isn't that the Google Books dilemma?
  11. Little Big Man (1970; Hoffman) and Neighbors (1981;Belushi,Aykroyd) are both based on books by Thomas Berger: http://bit.ly/UKqD6 #trivia
  12. The "Under Construction" image - http://bit.ly/uncns - is going the way of the "No Vacancy" sign - http://bit.ly/novac
  13. @CHRISVOSS Twitter only gives access to the last 2000 tweets (this changes from time to time)
  14. Sunn 0))) in Providence tomorrow night. I wonder if Eno envisioned this when he called ambient music "a tint" http://bit.ly/sunno
  15. @jkottke how did you pull that off?
  16. xefer.com will be back later today...
  17. Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X both worked at the Omni Parker House hotel in Boston. #trivia
  18. @mcrilf Drag the left slider handle all the way to the right so only one tweet shows, then left-arrow key to see the dots added one by one.
  19. @mcrilf The numbers show how many tweets the largest "dot" represents; the size of smaller dots on the graph scale relative to that number
  20. @mcrilf the light grey is the total number of message for that time period, the dark gray are the subset of those which are replies.