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Flying Spaghetti Monster

Flying Spaghetti Monster

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The Flying Spaghetti Monster made it into the Wikipedia, nice! The Flying Spaghetti Monster is the deity of a religion, known as Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, started on the Internet by Bobby Henderson as a parody of the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to allow intelligent design to be taught in science classes alongside evolution. Henderson submitted an open letter to the Kansas Board of Education demanding that the Flying Spaghetti Monster be given equal time in classrooms…

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Unconscious Mutterings 7-10

Unconscious Mutterings 7-10

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Note to HK: “Unconscious Mutterings” is just a blog toy – just for fun. Every week we get this handy list of words – and we just free associate. The first word is theirs, the second, mine. Do-it-yourself:: disaster Pickpocket:: or two Ballet:: tour jeté Resumé:: curriculum vitae Phenom:: fab Love/Hate:: fervor Unusual:: pussycat Intense:: repulsion Interruption:: syncope Not enough:: sample – I mean, ample

Miscellaneous Legends

Miscellaneous Legends

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OK, I havn’t visited Snopes in a while. Here’s a couple of true and false claims for ya. True An Islamic bank is the majority owner of the Caribou Coffee chain. Wal-Mart (sort of accidentally) resold toys left with it to be donated to needy kids. JELL-O is made from animal bones and hides (cows and pigs) – but not hooves. A lightbulb manufactured in 1901 burns bright to this day. President Bush appointed W. David Hager, a physician and…

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Art is not dead

Art is not dead

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Thrilled to plug new works from my brilliant artist friend Joseph Nechvatal. Check out: BEING IS DIFFERENCE and the new series back tO Order :-.,_,.-:*’“’*:-.,_,.-:*’“’*:-.,_,.-:*’“’*:-.,_,.-:*:-.,*:-.,_,.-:*’“’*:-.,_ Also stumbled across this site this morning – compelling ideas and performance in these works at 6168. http://www.6168.org/

MIT Blog Survey

MIT Blog Survey

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Go ahead! Take the blog survey and be a statistic for MIT. (I always wanted that for you honey. I know.) And check this out – screen shots of Windows 1.0 all the way to XP. I remember every one of them. My first PC was an IBM PS2 – no hard drive. Ran a DOS version of Word Perfect off a floppy, using function keys to format documents. Actually, it wasn’t that different from basic html coding. Turn the…

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Slanguage

Slanguage

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Your Slanguage Profile New England Slang: 100% Victorian Slang: 75% Aussie Slang: 50% Canadian Slang: 50% Southern Slang: 50% Prison Slang: 25% British Slang: 0% What Slanguage Do You Speak?