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Please to keep in mind the following items brought to my attention this last month:

From UCLA comes more confirmation that the social system is wired into our bodies' makeup.
It's a good time looking at the stills and newsreel footage from the last century.
Not enough blogs these days feature the kind of pithy observation of the odd horrifying detail like this:
I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition.
(Samuel Pepys, 13 October 1660)
Here's the clearest Unicode and character set description I've seen.
Great animation of the effect of sea level rise on Europe. [via Incoming Signals]
Uh-oh, bad time to be in the tape backup business, according to Computerworld.
When you're busy with all the minutiae of carrying out a quest, it can be helpful to have a simple list of items to make sure you aren't forgetting something. [via Making Light]

Originally published: 2003/11/01 22:32:26

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