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		<title>Answers in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: xkcd #936, on password strength. Click image to enlarge; see xkcd itself for the full six panels and the punchline.] From whiskey river: This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. (Dag Hammarskjöld [source]) &#8230;and: Ch&#8217;ui the draftsman Could draw more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liquid Assets, Compounded</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Butterfly Splash," by Alex Koloskov. For more information, including an "e-videobook" tutorial on creating this sort of effect, see the photographer's site, which is where I found it.] From whiskey river (italicized portion): Poem Holding Its Heart In One Fist Each pebble in this world keeps its own counsel. Certain words &#8212; these, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The History of English, in Ten(ish) Minutes</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/11/the-history-of-english-in-tenish-minutes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a sophomore in high school &#8212; this was just a plain old everyday public high school, not a school for high-achieving nerds or anything &#8212; our English teacher let us write an end-of-year research paper on any topic we liked. I have no idea why, of all possible subjects, at the age [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Logic of Irrationality&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Original image found at the MathWorks site (slogan: "Accelerating the pace of engineering and science"). It seemed too good not to use.] I haven&#8217;t read the book in question (Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman), but this book review got it a spot in the queueueueue. Especially this bit: Kahneman&#8217;s approach to psychology spurns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alien You</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From whiskey river: One Source of Bad Information There&#8217;s a boy in you about three Years old who hasn&#8217;t learned a thing for thirty Thousand years. Sometimes it&#8217;s a girl. This child has to make up its mind How to save you from death. He said things like: &#8220;Stay home. Avoid elevators. Eat only elk.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whiplash Misreadings</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/08/whiplash-misreadings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m in bed last night, reading a little bit (as is customary) before shutting out the light. I finish one article and move to the next. The title of this new article is &#8220;Sleeping with the Enemy&#8221;; and the subtitle, &#8220;What happened between the Netherlands and us?&#8221; The Netherlands? I wonder. An enemy? Are we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Whole Sweet World Is a Garden</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/07/the-whole-sweet-world-is-a-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Video: Rowlf and Fozzie collaborate, after a fashion -- and much to their surprise -- on an instrumental version of "In an English Country Garden"] From whiskey river: The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen suggests that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Did the Dormouse Say?</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/06/what-did-the-dormouse-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: T-shirt available from the Skreened store. Of all the images of this moment which I found online, the original Tenniel still seemed best. Disclaimer: I have no interest (vested or, ha, shirted) in the store other than this photo of this T-shirt.] From whiskey river: Brotherhood Homage to Octavius Ptolemy I am a man: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shape of What You Live</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/06/the-shape-of-what-you-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Angular Momentum," from xkcd.com. The tooltip/"hover title" at the original page says: "With reasonable assumptions about latitude and body shape, how much time might she gain them? Note: whatever the answer, sunrise always comes too soon. (Also, is it worth it if she throws up?)"] From whiskey river: Remembering And you wait. You wait [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conspiracy of Pages</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/06/a-conspiracy-of-pages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Etching: "The Hall of Planets," by Erik Desmazières, #5 in a series of eleven illustrating  an edition of "The Library of Babel," by Jorges Luis Borges; click to enlarge] From whiskey river: The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust in them; it was [...]]]></description>
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