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“next to of course god america i

19-Apr-08

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“next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims’ and so forth oh
say you can see by the dawn’s early my
country ’tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by […]

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The Most Important Things You’ll Read This Month

07-Mar-08

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One of the most important things you can do is keep the Robbers Cave experiment in your mind at all time.
Two groups of culturally homogeneous boys were slowly introduced to one another, and conflict blazed out of nowhere. Just the mere grouping caused the boys to detect minute differences and exaggerate them […]

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Democracy and Lizards

25-Jan-08

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A cynical view I somewhat share, provided by the genius of Douglas Adam:

‘On [that] world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people.’
‘Odd,’ said Arthur, ‘I thought you said it was a democracy?’
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Memetic Convergence

03-Jun-07

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When I read Mark Liberman using the neologism lolsingularity, I knew I had to register some domain names pronto. Soon, both the .info and .com domains were under my ownership, and a rudimentary page was up. Soon it’ll look good, too!
The lolmemes are accelerating in both the appearance of new variants and […]

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