The Mendicant Bug
Wanderings into computational linguistics, science, social media and life...
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12 Jan 2009
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Linguistic Homogenization and Power
10 Jan 2009
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Twitter Wordle
10 Jan 2009
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Initial observations from Windows 7 Beta
09 Jan 2009
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Bandwidth Simulation Python Code
08 Jan 2009
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Jekyll and Code
08 Jan 2009
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Adwords Fail
06 Jan 2009
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Bandwidth simulation
04 Jan 2009
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Books for Christmas
31 Dec 2008
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Top posts of 2008
29 Dec 2008
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Definition of computational linguistics #87
29 Dec 2008
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GUI interface for VB to track IP addresses
18 Dec 2008
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clerk dogs
13 Dec 2008
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Nerd God
12 Dec 2008
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My Christmas Wishlist
10 Dec 2008
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Forrester's straw-man study on media trust
09 Dec 2008
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Dogs don't want to be left out
08 Dec 2008
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Group effort
04 Dec 2008
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Pernicious Spam
03 Dec 2008
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Thanksgiving 2008
30 Nov 2008
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10 Reasons to Use Git for Research
23 Nov 2008
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The global food problem is our problem
23 Nov 2008
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Herding Bee
21 Nov 2008
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If wishes were *
20 Nov 2008
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100,000 hits
20 Nov 2008
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Fun with trees in Ruby
18 Nov 2008
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This is why I love linux #372
17 Nov 2008
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LDA in Ruby
16 Nov 2008
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Am I an Aspie?
16 Nov 2008
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Latent Dirichlet Allocation
15 Nov 2008
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Google App Engine Hackathon
13 Nov 2008
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Fomalhaut B
11 Nov 2008
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Dog of Man
10 Nov 2008
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Fallout 3 Teaser
07 Nov 2008
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Blogging Platform
05 Nov 2008
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Rest in peace, Michael Crichton
05 Nov 2008
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Mars Phoenix gets a lame-ass epitaph
30 Oct 2008
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NASA Twittering
27 Oct 2008
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Twitrratr
25 Oct 2008
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Microsoft U Rank
24 Oct 2008
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He's dead, Jim
22 Oct 2008
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Nuncle!
22 Oct 2008
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GWAP Gender Guesser
15 Oct 2008
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NACLO 2009
14 Oct 2008
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Relevance-based language modeling
11 Oct 2008
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Daedal on the hunt
10 Oct 2008
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A thing of horror
01 Oct 2008
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Presence versus frequency redux
30 Sep 2008
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Is presence really better than frequency?
30 Sep 2008
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Smiley Pareidolia
24 Sep 2008
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Deer Park
16 Sep 2008
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Sentiment Polarity
12 Sep 2008
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New Dog Park
29 Aug 2008
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Creature Comforts
26 Aug 2008
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Top 48 Sci-Fi Adaptations
23 Aug 2008
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The mind of Daedalus
21 Aug 2008
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Bisfree
14 Aug 2008
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Opinion Mining
14 Aug 2008
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Rat cyborg
12 Aug 2008
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Blog Anniversary
10 Aug 2008
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An afternoon in Seattle
04 Aug 2008
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A weekend in Boston
28 Jul 2008
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Cuil Fail
16 Jul 2008
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A forest of Jason Adamses
12 Jul 2008
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Mind maps
11 Jul 2008
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Important observation
10 Jul 2008
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Range voting is cool
09 Jul 2008
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Random Job Search Thoughts
04 Jul 2008
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Largest Moth in North America
03 Jul 2008
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Stacked Agents Model
30 Jun 2008
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MS in Language Technologies
29 Jun 2008
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Kickass Tag Clouds
29 Jun 2008
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Aged Willow
25 Jun 2008
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The limits of collaborative filtering?
23 Jun 2008
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Willowpuppy
22 Jun 2008
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Does NACLO need a better name?
22 Jun 2008
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Willow Nervosa
22 Jun 2008
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Some related thoughts on intelligence
21 Jun 2008
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Hakia Semantic Search API
20 Jun 2008
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Primer
18 Jun 2008
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Spore Creature Creator
18 Jun 2008
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Up Up Down Down...
12 Jun 2008
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friendfeed
08 Jun 2008
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Daedal in the tubes
06 Jun 2008
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RedOrbit Blog of the Day
06 Jun 2008
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Cutest dog ever
06 Jun 2008
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Plurk your tweets
03 Jun 2008
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Dapper
02 Jun 2008
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Tweet your plurks
01 Jun 2008
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Plurk-or-Tweet
31 May 2008
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OpenCalais
30 May 2008
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No moseying
29 May 2008
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Oak Island
21 May 2008
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Memories of the Sun
19 May 2008
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Is that all there is?
18 May 2008
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GWAP Promo
15 May 2008
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Pythonic Matlab
14 May 2008
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Know your audience
14 May 2008
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Games with a Purpose
12 May 2008
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MT Eval with Binary Comparisons
11 May 2008
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Sampling of Game Demos
04 May 2008
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Likings Rankness
01 May 2008
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Rowling Yowling
29 Apr 2008
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Late Night Spektor
28 Apr 2008
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Coin Operated Boy
26 Apr 2008
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Pirates Game
24 Apr 2008
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Obama vs Clinton Decision Tree
22 Apr 2008
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Effin Clean
19 Apr 2008
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Xenolinguistics
18 Apr 2008
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I'd like a thorazine shake with that please
17 Apr 2008
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Theoretical versus Empirical DP
17 Apr 2008
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President Nobody
16 Apr 2008
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Star WWII
16 Apr 2008
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Seven Grand Tech Challenges
11 Apr 2008
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Supercomputer beats Go master
10 Apr 2008
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What is information trapping?
08 Apr 2008
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Spam of the Day 2008-04-08
08 Apr 2008
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Dog Obsession pt. 7
07 Apr 2008
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SIGKDD Workshop on Large Scale Recommender Systems
07 Apr 2008
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A Flyby of Warthogs
06 Apr 2008
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Can you be left behind...
02 Apr 2008
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The Typical American Meal
01 Apr 2008
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April Fools' Day
01 Apr 2008
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Ensembles of kNN Recommenders
31 Mar 2008
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Manned Cloud
30 Mar 2008
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Steampunk Death Star
27 Mar 2008
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The babe with the Power
27 Mar 2008
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Visiting UMD
25 Mar 2008
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The most awesome mashup ever
25 Mar 2008
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Walmart is pure dagnasty evil
22 Mar 2008
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The Bleak Blackness of Space
20 Mar 2008
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They're like rats
19 Mar 2008
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Of Goldfish and Memory
19 Mar 2008
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A Few Random Thoughts
17 Mar 2008
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Precogs
17 Mar 2008
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Support farmers in developing nations
17 Mar 2008
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Ants are awesome
15 Mar 2008
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More out of townage
13 Mar 2008
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Some Perspective
12 Mar 2008
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Which CS subfield is your strength?
12 Mar 2008
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Second Creepy Life
07 Mar 2008
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Visiting Johns Hopkins
03 Mar 2008
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Parking Fail
01 Mar 2008
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That dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard
29 Feb 2008
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Soylent Green
27 Feb 2008
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Is Systran going statistical?
26 Feb 2008
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Go Snapback Symmetry
26 Feb 2008
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The Enormity of Space
25 Feb 2008
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A Dance with Dragons Cover Art
24 Feb 2008
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Syntactic Features for MT Eval
24 Feb 2008
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Ralph Nader enters the race
24 Feb 2008
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LSD still in French Candy
22 Feb 2008
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Free IQ Tests
21 Feb 2008
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Product Visualization
21 Feb 2008
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Lunar Eclipse February 20, 2008
20 Feb 2008
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Labeled Dependencies in MT Evaluation
18 Feb 2008
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Worldwide Telescope
17 Feb 2008
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Snowy Whiskers
16 Feb 2008
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What the Deuce?
16 Feb 2008
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NESCAI 2008
16 Feb 2008
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Who created OpenEphyra?
14 Feb 2008
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To my loving wife
13 Feb 2008
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MT Evaluation Shared Task
12 Feb 2008
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Indeed not!
11 Feb 2008
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Sweaterbee
11 Feb 2008
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Future of Computing Education
11 Feb 2008
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What's the information need, Kenneth?
10 Feb 2008
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Spam of the Day 2008-02-10
08 Feb 2008
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Spam of the Day 2008-02-08
08 Feb 2008
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Overgermanification
07 Feb 2008
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Spam of the Day 2008-02-07
06 Feb 2008
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What's new in MT Evaluation?
05 Feb 2008
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Giant Robotic Spy Blimp
05 Feb 2008
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Meh Tuesday
04 Feb 2008
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How Orwellian, President Bashir!
04 Feb 2008
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ACM Turing Award Winner
04 Feb 2008
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Daedalcat
02 Feb 2008
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Behold! The horde...
01 Feb 2008
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Microsoft Yahoo! Live ™
31 Jan 2008
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Nanoblahblah, borne forth from the blagoblag
30 Jan 2008
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The Crowd Thins
30 Jan 2008
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Help Science Funding
30 Jan 2008
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Flow my tears, the Coral Reef said
28 Jan 2008
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What's in a CS degree?
28 Jan 2008
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Moon in the Clouds
27 Jan 2008
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Dogs of Winter
26 Jan 2008
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Cognate Identification: Orthographic Methods
26 Jan 2008
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Netflix Friends
26 Jan 2008
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To ebay this, to google that
26 Jan 2008
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Mein Führer, die Cowboys haben verloren...
23 Jan 2008
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The Clonus Horror
22 Jan 2008
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And then there were... umpteen
21 Jan 2008
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Research Interests
21 Jan 2008
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Cloverfield
20 Jan 2008
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Tales from the Oligarchy
19 Jan 2008
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FSMNLP 2008 CFP
19 Jan 2008
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Dog Talk Redux
17 Jan 2008
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Large Hadron Collider Movie
17 Jan 2008
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Dog Talk
16 Jan 2008
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Blending
16 Jan 2008
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Bear Arms
13 Jan 2008
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The Island
11 Jan 2008
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Willoughby
10 Jan 2008
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Donald Knuth = 70
09 Jan 2008
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Running the World
08 Jan 2008
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Finders Keepers
08 Jan 2008
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Bill's Last Keynote
05 Jan 2008
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Willow and the Frisbee 2
04 Jan 2008
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Dinklefwat 5
04 Jan 2008
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Xhosa
03 Jan 2008
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Emperor Zuckerberg I
03 Jan 2008
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Top 10 Posts of 2007
03 Jan 2008
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Fast asleep
02 Jan 2008
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Brother Rudy
02 Jan 2008
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Reverse Gesundheit!
02 Jan 2008
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A Song of Ice and Fire Update
02 Jan 2008
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No more sleep
31 Dec 2007
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Dunder and Bliksem
30 Dec 2007
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Be Courtious
27 Dec 2007
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Toddler Bug
26 Dec 2007
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New Camera
23 Dec 2007
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Merry Christmas Tree Fractal
23 Dec 2007
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Recommended Reading
22 Dec 2007
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RateBeer 2.0
20 Dec 2007
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Polar Bears
19 Dec 2007
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Fun with charts
19 Dec 2007
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Eminent Domination
18 Dec 2007
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Galactic Attactic
18 Dec 2007
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Tweets for Twits
17 Dec 2007
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Level 4 Human Wizard
17 Dec 2007
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Fun Theory
17 Dec 2007
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104 Years Ago Today
16 Dec 2007
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Google Reader Shared Items
16 Dec 2007
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Winter is coming
15 Dec 2007
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Ninjawords
14 Dec 2007
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Creative Commons
14 Dec 2007
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Netflix Prize: Good science or not?
13 Dec 2007
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Die, PC Speaker
13 Dec 2007
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Revenge of the Whales
13 Dec 2007
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Cyberlover
11 Dec 2007
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Comfort
11 Dec 2007
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Predictify!
11 Dec 2007
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Watering Hole
10 Dec 2007
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Which IDE do you use?
10 Dec 2007
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Cognate Identification: Approaches
09 Dec 2007
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Information Diaspora
09 Dec 2007
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Christmas Tree 2007
08 Dec 2007
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How much of a geek are you?
07 Dec 2007
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Phaethon Cometh
06 Dec 2007
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Cognate Identification: Definition
06 Dec 2007
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The case for nuking Greenland
05 Dec 2007
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Java Properties
05 Dec 2007
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Python ecstacy
05 Dec 2007
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So just how stupid are US teens?
05 Dec 2007
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Snowier and snowier
04 Dec 2007
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Frontrunners Faltering
03 Dec 2007
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brainfscking set theory
03 Dec 2007
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Old Christmas Tree
03 Dec 2007
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First snow!
01 Dec 2007
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Clean as a chitterling
01 Dec 2007
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Celestia
30 Nov 2007
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Where do I belong?
30 Nov 2007
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Google Reader Recommender
28 Nov 2007
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Frisbee Time at Frick
28 Nov 2007
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Oh yeah, McCain
28 Nov 2007
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brainfsck
27 Nov 2007
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Slumber Party Christmas Album
27 Nov 2007
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New Open Access Semantics Journal
24 Nov 2007
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More fun in York
24 Nov 2007
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Hanukkah Dog
23 Nov 2007
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Thanksgiving in York
21 Nov 2007
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Planarity
20 Nov 2007
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Airships are dreamy
20 Nov 2007
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Mike Chuckabee
19 Nov 2007
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Richard M. Hogg Prize in Linguistics
18 Nov 2007
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Killer Bean Forever
18 Nov 2007
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Perfect Major?
17 Nov 2007
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Dog Obsession pt. 6
17 Nov 2007
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23, me, and who else?
16 Nov 2007
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Leonid Meteor Shower
16 Nov 2007
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Has a surfer unified physics?
15 Nov 2007
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Overeating
14 Nov 2007
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Crayon Physics
14 Nov 2007
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Rosetta
13 Nov 2007
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Earthrise
13 Nov 2007
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StupidFilter
12 Nov 2007
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Venutian Rover Bomb
12 Nov 2007
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Here's to you, Mr. Ancient Brewer Man
11 Nov 2007
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Wedding toast
11 Nov 2007
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Winter Daedal
09 Nov 2007
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You have no soul
08 Nov 2007
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Mars, Phobos, or Deimos?
08 Nov 2007
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Old English Translator
07 Nov 2007
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The problem with Pandora
07 Nov 2007
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Buzz share correlates with polls
07 Nov 2007
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Wired recognizes peak oil
06 Nov 2007
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Warmonger beats Comedian
05 Nov 2007
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Discovery and ISS Viewing
04 Nov 2007
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PC on the decline?
04 Nov 2007
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CMU wins DARPA challenge
03 Nov 2007
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Game wishlist
02 Nov 2007
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Morning Madness
02 Nov 2007
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God Checker
02 Nov 2007
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Dog Obsession pt. 5
01 Nov 2007
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Death Maps
31 Oct 2007
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Bus Number
31 Oct 2007
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ACL 2008 Student Workshop CFP
31 Oct 2007
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Obligatory Hallowe'en Post
31 Oct 2007
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The Bush's Mental Health
30 Oct 2007
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Limbo
29 Oct 2007
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Peak oil has come and gone
29 Oct 2007
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Wherefore art thou Dark Matter?
28 Oct 2007
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Simple Cellular Automata
28 Oct 2007
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Rube Goldberg and Automata
28 Oct 2007
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Photodriving Pittsburgh
26 Oct 2007
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A Colbert Presidency
25 Oct 2007
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The Noob's Guide to Parsing
24 Oct 2007
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Give Kucinich a Hand
23 Oct 2007
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Laptops for Tanzania part 2
23 Oct 2007
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Cassini Contest for Kids
22 Oct 2007
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Goodbye Systran
21 Oct 2007
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Previews Remixed
21 Oct 2007
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Discovery and Harmony
20 Oct 2007
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Chernobyl
19 Oct 2007
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Ever feel like this?
18 Oct 2007
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Teeming with life
17 Oct 2007
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Thinking Machines
17 Oct 2007
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Track the Space Station
17 Oct 2007
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ACL 2008 Call for Papers
16 Oct 2007
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Iraq Casualties
16 Oct 2007
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Ambigrams
15 Oct 2007
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Computational Linguistics Job
14 Oct 2007
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When will China self-destruct?
13 Oct 2007
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Giant hurt ball
12 Oct 2007
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Dictionaries
11 Oct 2007
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World ecological debt
10 Oct 2007
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Space money
09 Oct 2007
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We are screwed
09 Oct 2007
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The Failed Congress
08 Oct 2007
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Predict this!
07 Oct 2007
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Real X-Wing Disintegrates
06 Oct 2007
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Mrs. McGrath
06 Oct 2007
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Hickory Horned Devil
06 Oct 2007
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Am I the ideal supporter?
05 Oct 2007
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Add one more killer asteroid
05 Oct 2007
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Chimps like raisins
05 Oct 2007
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Visual Bookshelf
04 Oct 2007
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Substitution Ciphers
03 Oct 2007
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Sulu gets an asteroid
03 Oct 2007
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Unsicht-Bar
03 Oct 2007
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Invisibility Cloak a reality... sorta
03 Oct 2007
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Clinton vs. Obama
02 Oct 2007
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Live diligently
02 Oct 2007
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Blackwater USA Update
01 Oct 2007
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Wired NASA Slogan Winners
01 Oct 2007
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What people hear
30 Sep 2007
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Presentation magic
30 Sep 2007
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My Google Wishlist
30 Sep 2007
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Daedalerberus
30 Sep 2007
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Childrens and chilluns
30 Sep 2007
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Salad Fingers 8
29 Sep 2007
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Where's Rudy?
28 Sep 2007
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The seventh son of a seventh son
28 Sep 2007
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Ultrafast thumb-only keyboard
28 Sep 2007
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Another think coming
28 Sep 2007
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Dawn liftoff
27 Sep 2007
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Shoot first, ask questions later
27 Sep 2007
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Halo 3 prank
27 Sep 2007
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Universal human language
26 Sep 2007
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Mr. Ahmadinejad, wtf?
26 Sep 2007
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Dog-human dynamics
25 Sep 2007
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No new CS geniuses
24 Sep 2007
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Love your enemies
24 Sep 2007
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Maybe you'll listen if you're under water
24 Sep 2007
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Richard Hogg dies
24 Sep 2007
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Gmail 2.0
22 Sep 2007
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Peruvian meteorite caused illnesses
22 Sep 2007
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Robots as sex objects?
22 Sep 2007
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Photowalking
22 Sep 2007
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New Open-Access Computational Linguistics Journal
22 Sep 2007
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Twitter continues to suck
21 Sep 2007
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Smiley TG
21 Sep 2007
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Women read more than men?
21 Sep 2007
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Bell's Batch 8000
21 Sep 2007
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The hand of Franklin reaching
20 Sep 2007
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Gaming pwns your GPA
20 Sep 2007
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Alien invasion or crazy locals?
19 Sep 2007
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Avast, ye scurvy blagoblag!
19 Sep 2007
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Robert Jordan dies
18 Sep 2007
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Pay-to-view? That's so web 1.0
18 Sep 2007
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:-) x 25
18 Sep 2007
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Merge sort fun
17 Sep 2007
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Weekend in Dover Montage
17 Sep 2007
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Laptops for Tanzania
16 Sep 2007
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Willow and the Frisbee
14 Sep 2007
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Eastern US getting harder to breathe in
14 Sep 2007
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Edwards on MSNBC
13 Sep 2007
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Fair use is good for business, duh!
13 Sep 2007
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New X Prize cooler than ever
12 Sep 2007
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Wonkosphere in the Blagoblag
12 Sep 2007
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Google me
12 Sep 2007
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Dawn
11 Sep 2007
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Where were you?
10 Sep 2007
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The Federal Government Hates West Virginia
09 Sep 2007
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Patent Reform Act
08 Sep 2007
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Christian nation
07 Sep 2007
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New NASA Slogan
07 Sep 2007
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White Goods
06 Sep 2007
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Where have all the bees gone?
06 Sep 2007
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Thesaurus Bad
06 Sep 2007
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Twitter away
04 Sep 2007
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The Many Names of Daedalus
04 Sep 2007
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Spaceport America
03 Sep 2007
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Pecha Kucha
03 Sep 2007
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Dog Obsession pt. 4
03 Sep 2007
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Stardust
03 Sep 2007
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Woolly Bear Caterpillar
02 Sep 2007
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CFP Wiki
31 Aug 2007
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Google Flight Sim
31 Aug 2007
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Supergeek to the rescue!
31 Aug 2007
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Dog Obsession pt. 3
29 Aug 2007
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Don't wash windows - become a prostitute
29 Aug 2007
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Abandon New Orleans
28 Aug 2007
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CICLing 2008: CFP
28 Aug 2007
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Chinese internet watchdog
28 Aug 2007
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FreeAlert.org
28 Aug 2007
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The Space Station goes gimmicky
27 Aug 2007
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The Steelers
27 Aug 2007
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Total Lunar Eclipse Blues
24 Aug 2007
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Beam me up!
24 Aug 2007
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West Not-so-Virgin-ia
24 Aug 2007
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Windows or else!
23 Aug 2007
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Progress in time travel
23 Aug 2007
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Dog Obsession pt. 2
22 Aug 2007
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Finding Nemo
21 Aug 2007
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dot blerg
21 Aug 2007
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Leinenkugels Sunset Wheat
21 Aug 2007
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Roasted coffee and German satellites
21 Aug 2007
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Water Walls
20 Aug 2007
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Wet Artificial Life
19 Aug 2007
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Who's your candidate?
19 Aug 2007
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Pronouns prevent brain overload
18 Aug 2007
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More confirmation that Vista blows
17 Aug 2007
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Life Assurance
17 Aug 2007
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Body heat -> electricity
17 Aug 2007
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Giuliani = Hamas?
17 Aug 2007
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Memory trail
16 Aug 2007
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Surprise! Everest kills old people better.
16 Aug 2007
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And the bodies lie scattered...
15 Aug 2007
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Four-leaf clover
14 Aug 2007
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Enormity
14 Aug 2007
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Inbred Mice and Appalachia
13 Aug 2007
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Ding dong! The witch is dead...
13 Aug 2007
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Beautiful Bolide
10 Aug 2007
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Perseids
10 Aug 2007
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Barack Obomba
09 Aug 2007
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Cathedral of Learning
08 Aug 2007
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Dogbook
08 Aug 2007
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Howmsoever
08 Aug 2007
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Crazy CAPTCHAs
07 Aug 2007
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Xtreme Weather
07 Aug 2007
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S.O.S.
07 Aug 2007
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Dog Obsession pt. 1
07 Aug 2007
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Here Be Patent Trolls
06 Aug 2007
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New Domain Name
06 Aug 2007
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Microsoft Photosynth
06 Aug 2007
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Einstein: the Internet is a Giant Cat
06 Aug 2007
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Boffins Discover Levitation
05 Aug 2007
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Willow Fretting pt. 1
05 Aug 2007
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Forays into the Blagoblag
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