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Saturday, March 28, 2009

Packstation awaits

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Got an e-mail saying I had a new package at Packstation. Went to the Post Office with my card, typed in my ID, tapped the screen a few time...

hard not to love

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Could hypnosis be a cure for hair loss? The placebo study for a hair growth drug called Propecia is interesting, because it shows that the b...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

that clinking clanking sound

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Came across the blog of a bookseller in Boulder. Back in December he had a post about trying to cut his orders by 20%. Wrote: The very fir...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

why isn't life more like Unicode?

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It's 12:03pm in Berlin. The sun is shining. Cars whiz up and down Hauptstrasse outside this café. Wherever Randall Munroe may be it i...

time warp

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The worst thing about living in Germany. It's now 1.06 am in Berlin. By OUR time, the Wednesday xkcd should be out. But it's not. We...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

found in translation?

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OK, I don't get it. Every once in a while I check out Wyatt Mason's blog, Sentences, over at Harpers. Mason is consistently happy t...
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OH MM!

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Owen Hatherley's Militant Modernism can be pre-ordered on Amazon for the staggeringly paltry price of £7.49, £2.50 less than the cover...
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Helen DeWitt
Helen DeWitt is author of The Last Samurai and Lightning Rods, and co-author of Your Name Here with Ilya Gridneff, an Australian journalist.
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