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Morgan Sandquist, in Gnosis, finds an “almost Shakespearian tone of irony” in the Arcata Eye’s police log. Like vast numbers of other people in the blogosphere Morgan is also reading this diary of a porn store clerk, which apparently was featured recently on This American Life. |
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The word sounds wonderful — like some sort of hot-rodded “Mad Max” machine skittering just at the edge of your field of vision — but I can’t say I had any idea what a “scramjet” was till just now. Thanks to David Harris’s science-news blog, I’m learning: “Scramjets are oxygen-breathing engines that work at hypersonic speeds, giving off water as the only by-product and only needing some hydrogen to run.” …And it seems they’ve just tested one in Australia successfully — or at least more successfully than in the past, when the things exploded. |
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Dave Cullen’s dueling-leads poll has a winner. |
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Michael Bishop is blogging about comics in Words and Pictures Weblog. |
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Last night, Joe, of the People are Stupid blog, posted the entire text of Kafka’s grim “Parable of the Doorkeeper.” Today, he reports a “Kafkaesque experience”: he got laid off from a technology startup. Life imitates blog? |
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