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Last Wednesday afternoon I called Michael Brutsch. He was at the office of the Texas financial services company…
First of all, congratulations on figuring out how to type in a URL and then maybe even scroll. It took me at least…
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Here is a Goatse license plate from Indiana that a reader spotted in Washington, D.C. yesterday. It was on a Scion,…
Lou Montulli was one of the first people to work on the Netscape web browser, which gave birth to many of the…

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In adorably analog fashion (she hand-wrote a note and scanned it!), Beyonce announced today that she is finally…
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