Electric Josh

You are (still) a suspect.
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A bunch of people have pointed us to the history of dance. It's a super funny video, and everyone else with a website is pointing at it, so why not me?
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The Idaho House of Representatives pays unanimous tribute to Napoleon Dynamite.
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Ooo! Oooo! Traffic waves: physics for bored commuters. This looks like just about the coolest thing I've seen this week. Hooray for amateur science.
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The National Weather Service has some really cool graphs. Yay, federal government!
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Time series nerds like me are going to have a hard time not spending the rest of our lives playing with Google Trends. Examples to try: hurricane; summer, winter; montpelier. Spend hours comparing the number of Google search queries involving a word with the number of news stories involving that word. Nice.
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Todd points us to the motherlode of ridiculous cover letters. Our favorite is #20.

Thank you for taking the time to consider my resume, even though I don't have one. MICROSOFT CANADA JOB HISTORY IBM I have been programming Perl for eight years, on every business appropriate platform there is, and I've been around long enough to understand that there are no human beings reading this. PENTIUM APPLE PARAMOUNT STUDIOS GENERAL MOTORS ENGINEERING You're a room of machines looking for keywords, the same way that my ISP searches for keywords in my emails.

Oh man, now Paul's 20, too. Only one sibling under 20. How'd that happen?
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So it turns out that we can use Pine natively on the Mac. I'm not sure why this is so neat, but the lovely wife and I just spent ten seconds reminiscing about when the internet first showed up (as far as we knew), and everyone used Pine on a unix terminal for email and chat on a unix terminal for what later started to be called instant messaging. Pine was great (I used it through 2000), but chat was a really rude app: among other things, it completely hosed the pine session of the person with whom you wanted to start chatting, text spewing all over the console. After the ten seconds remembering old comm programs we rubbed our heads in disbelief that we had had a conversation about old software. We are old.
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"Bush signed the provisions into law, then said he could ignore them all."
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Emmett's dollar collapse finally upon us?
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