Idea whose time has come.
How The Grinch Stole Christmas, an opera in three acts by Philip Glass
Dec 2nd
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peterfeld:
Hey Ya Charlie Brown (see previous post): This is old but I bet some of you haven’t seen...
Dec 2nd
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So underrated, this soundtrack.
Dec 1st
Where charity stands watching and faith...
Gunmen in fatal Toys R Us shooting identified, bodies found near front of store “Two men...
Nov 30th
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Okay, that’ll do it. HAPPY THANKSGIVING.
Nov 26th
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Nov 26th
spiegelman:
A friend of mine who works on the Hill just...
Nov 26th
License to fill.
I’m off to the DMV. If I don’t make it back—and, really, it’s even odds that I...
Nov 25th
You couldn't make it up, and why would...
“On the latest pardon list were: Leslie Owen Collier of Charleston, Mo. She was convicted...
Nov 25th
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This is the perfect song for a cold winter’s eve when the lights are low and you’ve...
Nov 25th
It’s an excellent question! Who DO you blame? The guy...
Nov 25th
Please please please include Karla Faye...
So who the fuck did Bush pardon already?
Nov 24th
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In re that whole Sarah Palin turkey thing: He makes a pretty good point. [Via]
Nov 24th
Today's must-read.
“People will need cars for the foreseeable future. People will never again need, nor did they...
Nov 24th
Because if we’ve learned anything from...
ericasavestheday: Two French girls are riding their bikes home from school. It starts to get...
Nov 24th
MAN, does this look delicious. [Via]
Nov 24th
Some great news.
Charles Kaiser’s Full Court Press column can now be found here.
Nov 24th
Either way, it’s good news for Q3, right? Heh.
Nov 24th
Sometimes it seems like the last eight...
“An obituary on July 31 about Anne Armstrong, former ambassador to Britain, referred...
Nov 24th
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Yeah, I know it’s wrong and all, but I love me some mid-eighties Bryan Ferry.
Nov 24th
Model of efficiency.
One of the most common questions people ask me about my life outside the workforce is what I...
Nov 24th
Saturation.
Last night I had a dream where someone asked me what I did for a living and I had to tell them I was...
Nov 24th
Teachable moments.
Here’s some food for thought: If you have nude photos of your wife on your cell phone, hang...
Nov 23rd
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L’Osservatore Romano recently got a new editor and now - apart from chronicling the...
Nov 23rd
“The bar-cafes? They’re finished. Twenty years ago, people...
Nov 23rd
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Nov 23rd
“The other interesting piece of information now come to light...”
— Howard Jacobson
— Howard Jacobson
Nov 22nd
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Your eyes. It’s a day’s work just looking into them.
Nov 22nd
“In an unusually graphic illustration of a possible future,...”
— The real reason why they let...
— The real reason why they let...
Nov 21st
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You know what would be kind of awesome? If Lou Reed and John Cale got together to do a...
Nov 21st
Food art: Albino brain.
Top THOSE, Zimmerman.
Nov 21st
Food art: The sun.
Nov 21st
Food art: Giant tree.
Nov 21st
Endorsed.
Vermouth-candied country ham
Nov 20th
Imagine how much blood poured from my...
the levels of pretentiousness in that gave me a nosebleed—A commenter at britticisms takes...
Nov 20th
Speaking of Cindy Adams, here she is in 1963 with MARTIN...
Nov 20th
So much better as a headline than “Republicans Still...
Nov 20th
Pope Benedict XVI was the first to predict the crisis in the global financial system, a...
Nov 20th
The Blow Me State
“A Republican-led legislative panel says in a new report on illegal immigration that abortion...
Nov 20th
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“A study just published in Psychological Science by Simone Schnall of the University of...
Nov 20th
ARRR.S.V.P.
“As a nascent and profitable industry in a failed and starving state, the Somali pirates will...
Nov 20th
GODDAMNIT. I just found out about Scared of Santa. Yes,...
Nov 20th
@kilmer: Trees r LVLY!
Will Twitter save poetry? You can “follow” Paradise Lost now, and other folks are also...
Nov 20th
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I would have to say that 50% of my tragic romanticizing of alcoholism came from Jimmy...
Nov 20th
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I am so ready for the new Alun Woodward record.
Nov 20th
“Find out why this stunning star has been named...
Nov 20th
Coupla possibilities here:
1. The mayor is such a petulant...
Nov 20th
simko:
A somber portrait promoting MTV’s documentary on...
Nov 20th
marklisanti:
At first, the shock of discovering the...
Nov 19th
Do we have a winner for dumbest...
“Our incoming president’s very short tenure in the public eye is brought home to me every day...
Nov 19th
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“The law is aimed primarily at small cigars sold individually at convenience stores and gas...
Nov 19th
“Schatzberg’s most famous shot of Dylan is the...
Nov 19th
“Television is the first truly democratic culture — the first...”
— Clive Barnes, 1927-2008
— Clive Barnes, 1927-2008
Nov 19th
Okay, who’s gonna do the overlay of states which voted...
Nov 18th
Victory has a thousand fathers.
I’ll be the first to admit I’m a major email nerd — and so it was with more than a...
Nov 18th
Former Senator Still Hanging Around Capitol
WASHINGTON, DC—Former Virginia senator Charles Robb,...
Nov 18th
How come nobody told me about AsIs? I’m unemployed...
Nov 18th
“I get rid of the “ugly parts” in my paintings....”
— The sixteen guidelines for...
— The sixteen guidelines for...
Nov 18th
An Appeasement of Chutneys sounds like the title of an...
Nov 18th
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You forgot one.
Nov 18th
I guess the NYC Tumblrs aren't really...
maura: Because I thought there would have been more discussion of this: The MTA’s doomsday...
Nov 18th
So much awesome.
“‘I’m not addressing,’ Mr. Page began, before burying his face in his hands, and...
Nov 18th
NYT: How the newspaper industry will...
Several European countries already impose hefty taxes of as much as 33 cents on standard plastic...
Nov 18th
She’s very serious about this. I remember one time we...
Nov 18th
Piracy and you.
“Last month I wrote a paper giving warning of the possibility of an attack on an oil tanker...
Nov 18th
Perspective
“It’s been two weeks since Election Day.”
Nov 18th
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Uh, no.
Nov 18th
And... here we go.
Dear Jackass, You’re why the Democratic party can’t have nice things. It’s...
Nov 18th
Also, probably gay.
MY NEXT BOYFRIEND will be total linkbait.
Nov 18th
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Is this the Enoest track in U2’s long collaboration with Eno? I say yes.
Nov 17th
Come around to my way of thinking.
In January of 2009—on New Year’s Day, to be precise—it will have been half a century since the...
Nov 17th
I think I miss the Somali pirate beat...
“Somali pirates hijacked a supertanker hundreds of miles off the Horn of Africa, seizing...
Nov 17th
I'm still voting for Christopher...
Mr. Frum said deciding to leave was amicable, but distancing himself from the magazine founded by...
Nov 17th
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I was flipping around yesterday and passed by The Notebook, which is a beautiful and deeply moving...
Nov 17th
Good news for those of you who have any...
The Criterion Collection is running a 40% off sale. It runs through Monday next, so if you were...
Nov 15th
It is so worth getting the current issue of Harper’s...
Nov 14th
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Nov 14th
“There are so many gerunds in places that do not need...”
— Jim Newell on Sarah Palin....
— Jim Newell on Sarah Palin....
Nov 14th
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This is pretty fucking great. [Via Clusterstock, by way of Videogum]
Nov 14th
Stars fell on Alabama.
Grimes last year also gave DoJ additional e-mails detailing previously undisclosed contacts between...
Nov 14th
Some excellent arguments in support of...
Nov 14th
When you think about it...
aren’t most of us technically pre-op transsexuals?
Nov 14th
Page Six: A tribute to 1958.
“IN a sign of bad times, high-end stores on Madison Avenue are seeing lots of luxury goods...
Nov 14th
Maybe "surfaces from her sepulcher"?
One of the more arduous tasks I faced at Gawker most mornings was coming up with new and clever ways...
Nov 14th
“That surprises me. That’s very surprising. If that is true,...”
— Jailed former Tyco CEO Dennis...
— Jailed former Tyco CEO Dennis...
Nov 14th
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You know, for the hoops they expect people to jump through so they can eat them, you’d think...
Nov 14th
Hahahaha, get it? He’s about to get assraped! No one...
Nov 14th
Um, no, it's just some water in my eyes....
brianvan: alexbalk: This is incredibly beautiful. Teardrop alert hereby delivered. Balk, you’re...
Nov 14th
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hipsterrunoff:
p0rn0 is finally gettin...
Nov 14th
Oh God. Get ready to hear a shitload about Kazakhstan.
Nov 14th
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I’m about ready for a new Camera Obscura record, you?
Nov 14th
Um, no, it's just some water in my eyes....
This is incredibly beautiful. Teardrop alert hereby delivered.
Nov 13th
“That type guy hangin’ round gets people agitated; Forces ‘em...”
— Al Swearengen. UGH WHY...
— Al Swearengen. UGH WHY...
Nov 13th
“The campaign is all about screwing your enemies. The...”
— Paul Begala
— Paul Begala
Nov 13th
Not content with devaluing hot faux-lesbian...
Nov 13th
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Thank God the scientific community is focusing on the real challenges this country currently faces.
Nov 13th
Preggy manwoman thinks he's Angelina Jolie or...
Nov 13th
Minneapolis election director speaks:...
Nov 13th
You know what I love?
That this has somehow become Gawker’s default American Apparel image.
Nov 13th
Recommended reading.
Michael Lewis’ “The End,” from the current Portfolio, is an astounding piece of...
Nov 13th
MADONNA and Alex Rodriguez are turning to mush over each other. Sources close to Madge tell the...
Nov 13th
Gold star.
Nov 13th
Do you know...
that incoming Biden Chief of Staff Ron Klain was played by Kevin Spacey in the HBO movie Recount? If...
Nov 13th
The Martin Eisenstadt hoax
The whole article is great, but this is the best bit: “Mr. Gorlin said they chose the name...
Nov 13th
The original multitasker.
“Throughout his trial for the 10 killings, Mr. Shawcross, beefy and graying, sat virtually...
Nov 13th
Attention white folks
David Cho, whose otherness has allowed for an immersion into both African-American and Caucasian...
Nov 13th
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Mitch Mitchell, the last surviving member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, has died.
The drummer in...
Nov 13th
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His solo career is almost an afterthought when compared with the mammoth beast which preceded it,...
Nov 13th
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Sorry for cluttering up your dashboards today! I don’t know what got into me. [Sigh. It was...
Nov 12th
I’m not sure what exactly in my inbox prompted this...
Nov 12th
Get it? 'Cause he's a fascist.
Google has added a new twist to its popular 3D map tool, Google Earth, offering millions of users...
Nov 12th
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Never mind Shep Smith’s complete evisceration of Nick DiPaolo here—and, seriously, Shep has...
Nov 12th
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To celebrate the demise of Mad TV, let’s watch the only funny skit they ever did. [Via] ...
Nov 12th
John McCain: One final "fuck you" to America.
Nov 12th
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While almost every review of Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, which is supposed to be...
Nov 12th
These are the jokes, the thrilling...
Those things were so long, right? Sorry. But I needed the set-up to explain this: Back when I was...
Nov 12th
These are the jokes, Part II.
So this guy saves up a small fortune to fulfill his girlfriend’s desire to go on a long cruise. The...
Nov 12th
These are the jokes, Part I.
A traveling salesman’s car breaks down in the middle of a deserted rural area. He hikes for a few...
Nov 12th
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It’s like seven different kinds of wrong that I did not know about this video until just now.
Nov 12th
I'm picturing something incredibly well...
Detroit rapper Trick Trick has never shied away from confronting fellow MCs on wax or in the streets...
Nov 12th
My admiration for Pareene knows no bounds,...
Nov 12th
Sorry Detroit, Blaming Unions Doesn't Work
Nov 12th
Headline of the day? I think so.
Nov 12th
Rosenbaum v. Jarvis
Prediction: This article is going to get the shit blogged out of it.
Nov 12th
“America is obsessed with potential and dismissive of...”
— The profile of Penny Arcade in...
— The profile of Penny Arcade in...
Nov 12th
Since you guys were so good at this last...
Anyone remember an editorial cartoon from late 1992, when President-Elect Clinton was making his...
Nov 12th
Do Top Hats Dream Of Electric Trains?
The Hasbro-Universal collaboration “Monopoly” is jumping a large number of spaces up the...
Nov 12th
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I was fourteen during the fall when Document came out, but because I was generally workshy and...
Nov 12th
Thanks, I'll eat it here.
The hardest thing to adjust to about being unemployed is the rhythm, or lack thereof. I’ve...
Nov 12th
Fifty years on.
In 1958, a young girl in Syracuse, New York, made a firm and solemn vow to herself. “When I...
Nov 12th
bullshit:
From Useful Photography #008, a book of photos of...
Nov 12th
Please stop misusing this phrase.
“You know Obamania has reached a new level when even John Podesta is a rock star.”
Nov 12th
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If Sarah Palin starts a four-year campaign for president, her kids will be frigging Einsteins.
Nov 12th
I call bullshit on this whole thing, but specifically the...
Nov 12th
Comedy is hard.
“A roomful of academics erupted in angry boos Tuesday morning after political analyst Michael...
Nov 12th
Holy crap.
For the record, “alive” is a purely clinical diagnosis.
Nov 12th
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Who remembers Tapeheads?
Nov 12th
Taking advantage of unemployment...
and spending most of the day offline. If you’ve got something vital—like, say, a job...
Nov 11th
This new generation.
Overheard on the F train yesterday. I’m terrible about guessing these things, but I’d be willing to...
Nov 11th
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Nov 11th
Does it seem like I miss trashy gossip?
“JEFF Zucker and old pal Katie Couric huddling over dinner at Elio’s . .,” says...
Nov 11th
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“Miriam Makeba, a South African singer whose voice stirred hopes of freedom among millions in...
Nov 10th
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This record is 15 years old. Sigh.
Nov 10th
The downside of change.
Nov 9th
natashavc:
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...
Nov 9th
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Nov 9th
“Over the next 25 years there grew up a new generation of...”
— Mark Lilla
— Mark Lilla
Nov 8th
Oh, NOW you're against that.
“The Mormon Church is in damage limitation mode. ‘No one on either side of the question...
Nov 8th
Hitting all the bases.
Musical theater reference? Check. Notation of Candianness? Check. Use of the nickname...
Nov 8th
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Nov 8th
With Paige it's ALWAYS a half-glass....
“A week after learning her fate, Ms. Ferrari sat barefoot on a couch in the apartment in...
Nov 8th
I cried my ass off, and if that makes me...
Read this now. Read the whole goddamn thing. [Via]
Nov 7th
It's hard to beat an opener like this...
“Earlier today, I expressed my desire to travel back in time to destroy Nick Saban by...
Nov 7th
I think Rahm Emmanuel is absolutely nuts to give up his...
Nov 7th
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Nov 7th
Thank God.
Hey Froelich, he’s your problem now.
Nov 7th
I know I certainly got tired of all the talk about Uganda...
Nov 7th
51% of Californians do!
My addiction to National Review’s group blog has long been a source of confusion and shame, though...
Nov 7th
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Nov 7th
OF COURSE they are.
Sales of handguns, rifles and ammunition have surged in the last week, according to gun store owners...
Nov 7th
Amazing collection of photographs from election night with...
Nov 7th
Man, this keeps getting better and better: Free Republic...
Nov 7th
Dodge enough bullets to keep Biden from ascending.
Nov 7th
Let my Leon go.
Many years ago I had an interesting disagreement with a writer for my pages, who concluded an essay...
Nov 7th
A propos of nothing, here’s a perfume ad from 1972....
Nov 7th
Maybe being unemployed has made me...
but it took me way longer to see where this was going than it usually would have. Anyway, still...
Nov 7th
Aftermath.
As is always the case following our quadrennial race for the nation’s highest office,...
Nov 6th
And we're off.
“If he ascends to majority leader, Mr. Smith, a Queens Democrat, will become the state’s first...
Nov 6th
Contrasts.
Two great moments from Newsweek’s excellent campaign post-mortem. Compare the Hllary team to...
Nov 6th
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Shack, “Oscar”
Nov 6th
Ain't a damned thing changed.
It’s been twenty-four hours and our troops are still in Iraq, the economy is still in tatters,...
Nov 6th
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spiegelman:
Here it is, from Fox News. Sarah Palin didn’t know what countries were in NAFTA. She...
Nov 6th
Thanks to Snarky McGee, here it is, from the Committee of...
Nov 5th
itsbedtime:My memory is a bit hazy—it was twenty years ago,...
Nov 5th
Were You Still Up For Portillo?
The moment everyone will remember from last night—and rightly so—was when whichever network you were...
Nov 5th
Has it been mentioned...
that Barack Obama received more votes for president than any other candidate in American history? I...
Nov 5th
And now it’s time to focus on what’s really...
Nov 5th
“His choice, basically, is whether he’s going to be...”
— Noted ethnographer Ralph...
— Noted ethnographer Ralph...
Nov 5th
The future of the Republican party.
“Palin’s shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously...
Nov 5th
In cased you missed them...
here’s John McCain’s remarkably gracious concession speech, and here’s...
Nov 5th
One moment of wide-eyed wonder with Alex...
The Metro hawker outside my train station was shouting, “First black president in America,...
Nov 5th
Yeah, try selling that somewhere else,...
The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The...
Nov 5th
More greedy than racist.
“‘The election of our first African-American president truly shows how far we’ve...
Nov 5th
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That said, this pretty much conveys my mood.
Nov 5th
Sour points.
Let’s get the things I’m pissed off about out of the way: • Saxby Chambliss, who ran...
Nov 5th
Alright.
Those of you who support Barack Obama: Vote. Vote your ass off. Drag everyone you know to the polls...
Nov 5th
We just flipped to CNN.
How long do you think it’s gonna be before Bill Bennett eats David Gergen?
Nov 5th
My feet aren't even vaguely ill-rested.
I am, for whatever reason, a compulsive voter. I vote in city council primary races, for fuck’s...
Nov 5th
Has anyone set an over/under on how many...
davidcho: Because I’ll probably take the over. What percentage are we assuming it’s Barack...
Nov 4th
Undecided.
Just kidding! I’m off to go vote, which will apparently take SEVEN HOURS, which I will be...
Nov 4th
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How long do you think it takes before someone tries to claim vote fraud because Obama had his...
Nov 4th
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Sing it, Ray.
Nov 4th
That was the easy part.
How long has this election been going on for? Consider this: It’s been sixteen months since My Cock...
Nov 4th
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Nov 4th
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For some reason, I always think that The Fixx did this song, and that annoying resurgence of...
Nov 4th
Get ready for Republican bitching about...
“Ms. Dunham’s absentee mail ballot was received and reviewed under the Hawaii standards for...
Nov 4th
“I think people passing a law against people wearing sagging...”
— Barack Obama on MTV (via...
— Barack Obama on MTV (via...
Nov 4th
This is a pretty awesome image.
Nov 4th
Little Plucky just doesn’t wanna go to sleep! Awww!...
Nov 4th
Yup'ik!
Actually, I think I’m gonna miss her come Wednesday. [Via]
Nov 3rd
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Okay, I’m sold on this movie. [Via]
Nov 3rd
Thought for the day.
Since 1952, just two Republican nominees for the office of the presidency did not serve as the...
Nov 2nd
“One afternoon before they left, David was very upset. His...”
— I’m a little late to...
— I’m a little late to...
Nov 2nd
Nov 2nd
Carl Hiassen prays for Florida.
“Deliver us from scandal, Lord. Let our optical-scanners perform flawlessly. Let the trucks...
Nov 2nd
In front of Boqueria on West 18th, via
Nov 2nd
Nov 2nd
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McCain was quite good in this, because, you know, what difference could it make anymore, but...
Nov 2nd
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Nov 2nd
I'll bet it did.
“Dr Peter Millican, a philosophy don at Hertford College, Oxford, has devised a computer...
Nov 1st
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Nov 1st