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January 29, 2009

Joshuah Bearman: Audio Voyeurism. I ran MMJ briefly as, at the time, it had one of the best mp3 renaming interfaces around.

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Steven Levitt analyzes crack economics

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Writing on the Water: The Ecstasy of Surfing. Great stuff.

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January 28, 2009

Gimme Indie Game: Konjak's Legend of Princess

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Risking All for Press Freedom: Russian Journalists Put Their Lives on the Line

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The awfulness of Billy Joel, explained. (tp) It just gets better and better.

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Karaoke rage.

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January 27, 2009

Champion of Guitars.z5 - Parchment

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January 24, 2009

The Boxxy Story: The Fall of Boxxy Part 2.

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Crazy Things Seem Normal . . . Normal Things Seem Crazy - Esquire (tp)

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January 23, 2009

mass shootings in Camden: Mike Berger's Award-Winning Story

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January 22, 2009

Three years undercover with the identity thieves

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Aboard the Bush Plane

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January 21, 2009

AOL Log Search: AnonID 711391. I would guess she has a teen son who's going through some stuff too?

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Minimovies - I Love Alaska - Lernert Engelberts and Sander Plug. My understanding was that AOL deliberately released the logs as some sort of open source PR gesture. Once people realised how personal some of the searches were they took them down again...

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January 20, 2009

How to make smokable freebase caffeine

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The New Cult Canon: Punch-Drunk Love

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The Game

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The Boxxy Story

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January 19, 2009

The Night New York Avoided a Riot

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One man's quest to find first black winner of the Tour de France (tp)

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January 16, 2009

Melt-in-the-Mouth Cookies, a brief history - Justinsomnia

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January 15, 2009

All the tenants I interview aren't good enough

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Photo Clichés

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January 14, 2009

Mind Hacks: Learning Makes Itself Invisible

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Interview with an Adware Author

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Hacking your Brain. The best bit is the first drawing of the guy with the ping pong balls over his eyes.

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The top 25 Bushisms of all time. - By Jacob Weisberg - Slate Magazine "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"

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January 13, 2009

Amazon.com: Ari Brouillette's review of The Secret (mr)

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Robert Fisk’s World: Wherever I go, I hear the same tired Middle East comparisons

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How Porsche hacked the financial system and made a killing

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January 12, 2009

“The Recently Deflowered Girl” (1965) – Illustrated by Edward Gorey

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January 09, 2009

The Boy With The Incredible Brain

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The Shrinking Map of Palestine

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January 08, 2009

Series 2 Episode 3, Language - The New Adventures of Mr Stephen Fry. An absolute delight.

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I Dream in Malcolm Gladwell by Benjamin R. Cohen - The Morning News

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January 07, 2009

Alien vs. Predator: Poetry: The New Yorker

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My Great Fake Bake Experiment

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Joshuah Bearman: Because It's There (more from the inimitable tp)

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January 06, 2009

Playing golf can 'damage hearing'. I have one of these titanium drivers, luckily for me I hit it so poorly that I've given up using it in favour of an iron...

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One Hacker's Audacious Plan to Rule the Black Market in Stolen Credit Cards

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What WWE champion Mick Foley thought of The Wrestler. There's a spoiler on the second page, in case that sort of thing bothers you.

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Yossi Sarid / If you (or I) were Palestinian - Haaretz - Israel News

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Me and My Girls - The Night of the Gun - David Carr

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January 05, 2009

Jonathan Franklin gets baptised in the Church of Maradona | Football (tp)

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The Legend of Master Legend : Rolling Stone (tp).

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January 04, 2009

Top 10 'WTF?' Bodybuilding Routines. Let's just hope that the first link of the year isn't some sort of omen of the quality of the site this year...

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