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“… if everybody really did read and write and listen to a ton of poetry in a single month, American […]

You can finally stop converting all of your GIF files to PNG: the last Unisys patents have expired. GIF is

Talk about a hard knock life: He spent life picking himself up (via null)

You geeks with your puny HDTV sets think 1080p is sharp? Try 4320p (with 7680 pixels in each horizontal row):

San Francisco literary festival October 6-14: Litquake » The Festival

Now that Talk Like a Pirate Day is over, Clara and I are wondering: When is National Talk Like a

Growth is inevitable, therefore, it “should be channeled into already urbanized areas.” Thoughtful ideas here: Coastsider: Letter: Smart Growth and

Sept 14 is World Hearing Voices Day: Can hearing voices in your head be a good thing?

Ben Schott, author of the entertainingly eclectic Schott’s Food & Drink Miscellany, charts the past 5 years: Five Years of

How philosophy can help create secure databases — or, more likely, create massive non-data maintenance headaches: Cryptography | The non-denial