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I always enjoy reading any interview with Chris Ware. He’s a thoughtful talented artist. Here’s a good extended quote from the The Onion.

I guess I’ve read once or twice that people think I’m “trying to bum them out,” which certainly isn’t the case. I’m only trying to present as honest a portrayal of the grimness [...]

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Another gem from Dan Bricklin’s things-I-like-to-talk-about personal website. How the Blogger Deal Happened describes how his company Trellix is pumping cash into Blogger. Vive le Bloggeur!

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It’s the world’s largest stinky penis-shaped flower and it’s just finished blooming in Wisconsin: Amorphophallus titanum. That’s over eight feet of purplish “corpse flower” captured on camera. The Little Shop of Horrors has nothing on this thing.

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We hear about software patterns all the time. Here are some Non-Software Examples of Software Design Patterns. Nice idea… good concrete reinforcement.

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Congratulations, graduates!
On this auspicious occasion I’d like to blah blah blah blah blah. Furthermore, yadda yadda yadda. Which reminds me of an amusing story: blah blah blah.
It’s a difficult thing to make a graduation speech work. Who wants to listen? Everybody’s so distracted by premature nostalgia or postpartum dread or pre-party anticipation, you might as [...]

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Fun picture of the Internet from CAIDA, which stands for Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis. The image does a good job splitting the difference between geographic location (which is displayed as longitude around the edges) and network relationships. For instance, you can see that Europe is closely linked with itself, whereas in Asian countries [...]

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My wife really loves Kate Bush, so when I happened across this site, I sent her a quick email about it. Then I poked around on it for a while, and even though I’m no Kate Bush fan, I was very impressed. Some diligent person collected just about every word Kate ever said. This is [...]

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The Robot Wisdom pages

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Here’s another close up of the Face on Mars courtesy of
APOD. Love those guys. This picture looks a lot more like the famous version than some other recent shots I’ve seen… you can see how the shadows must have fallen. Although I suppose it’s just possible that once the inhabitants knew we were onto them [...]

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