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Hulk Smash? Hulk SMASH!!!

I meant to post this awhile ago, but lost track of it. Then, in this week's Onion, I read about Stacker, a video game designed to have no effect on kids' behavior. Relevance doesn't come along every day. So, here's Jon Carroll in the Chron a few months back:

Gov …
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Eight-light Savings Time

Via Tapped, this righteously indignated letter in the Washington Post:

President Bush showed a lack of sensitivity and judgment when he commemorated Hanukkah by lighting candles on Dec. 6 at the White House. Hanukkah does not begin this year until sundown on Dec. 25. While this may not be a …
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The Raility-Based Community

I've jumped with gusto onto the Ruby on Rails bandwagon. For the non-programmers out there, Rails is a programming system that makes it really really easy to create spiffy websites that run on databases. I don't have the years of web-coding experience that all the other converts do, but I …

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