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• 19:29 @BadAstronomer what about "almost all the exxon valdez cleanup workers are dead" report? true/false/misleading? bit.ly/cv9mz1 #

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• 13:15 #ebz the Starveling Cat! the Starveling Cat! it likes your bones! it prefers your fat! fallenlondon.com/c/147236 #

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• 11:15 @wilw i have that on a tshirt. (how many people have already told you that?) #
• 16:51 @neilhimself apropos of nothing (okay, maybe something), have you read robin mckinley's "sunshine"? #

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• 13:16 @TychoBrahe That looks very intriguing, I'm glad you mentioned it. #

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• 12:52 The only possible explanation for this is that @warrenellis is pseudonymously covering Wimbledon for the Guardian. bit.ly/a2HARQ #
• 12:59 hm, on second thought, maybe @stephenfry ? Not enough swearing for @warrenellis . #

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• 17:25 @ebertchicago "With an “unknown unknown,” I don’t even know what questions to ask." // explains people who suck at google. #

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• 15:10 @Lastwear tea alone may be inadequate, but tea with milk and sugar should do the job nicely. #

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• 10:57 @Lastwear are you on the eastside? have you tried wilde rover in kirkland yet? #

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• 18:53 @bpal flavortext error! sponsor/team mismatch the first time the sponsor logos appear. #
• 18:54 @bpal are the 2008 pancake breakfast & summoning souvenir volunteer t-shirts still available? #

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• 15:23 @Lastwear you already listen to the bugle, right? www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/the_bugle/ #

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• 12:07 @ebertchicago penny arcade does not believe in calm, bland rhetoric. one might even say that tycho's talent for description is artistic! #

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• 17:24 @levarburton I would like to thank you for your role in passing the health care bill. bit.ly/93zrt1 #

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• 13:00 @aedison You also can't deny that Obama is the whitest president we have right now! #

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• 17:52 @scalzi i concur: paper yes, kindle no. #

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• 15:05 I nominate @mercola for a Shorty Award in #quackery because the FDA ordered him to stop making illegal claims about his "health" products. #
• 15:10 I nominate @badbanana for a Shorty Award in #humor because his non sequiturs always amuse. bit.ly/shorty #

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• 13:31 If I were asked "cake or death?", I think today I'd have to ask what kind of death before I could decide. #

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And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, revelling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us - listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.

-Susan Cooper

• 19:20 @birdchick the second pic is amazing too - water, trees, beak, bright smear of blue. gorgeous. #

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• 10:42 #artdoesnotexcuserape. Polanski needs to be prosecuted. tiny.cc/EeMKc. Please RT. #

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• 19:15 I won at the goth recluse game: blood tests came back from the doctor with a severe Vitamin D deficiency. #

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delicious eggs: warm up a wet pan on medium low heat. when the water has all evaporated put in eggs + 1/2 tbsp butter per egg. stir until butter dissolves. turn up heat just a wee bit, keep stirring. when the eggs have solidified enough that you can scrape them into one section of the pan and they'll more or less stay there, remove from heat. add a 1/2 tbsp neutral cultured milk product (creme fraiche, sour cream, plain yogurt, ricotta, cottage cheese) and stir. glop onto bread, add some salt and pepper and thyme. eat with gusto.

I've decided to clean up my music collection. I know I have multiple copies of a lot of stuff, some of which are ripped from scratched cds. I want a program that will find duplicates, and delete the dupes with skips, glitches, or lower quality. I found a few promising programs - do any of you have experience with these, or another program that you'd recommend instead?

MP3Test
MP3 Analyzer in Helium Music Manager
ENCSpot MP3 Analyzer
MP3 Tag Studio

So... any of you guys have access to a subscription for The Sixteenth Century Journal?

Also, Belfebe and Violante (if she reads this), can you give me a crash course in mujedars and moriscos in spain during the 16th century? How about quinquilleros/mercheros during the same period?

• 00:28 @InsetFrostbyte on a related note, if you can get me a cheap/free copy of excel 2007 i would love you forever. #
• 03:22 @InsetFrostbyte prices for both would be appreciated, but excel is the priority. #

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• 13:50 @ShadowKisa one huckleberry is purple, bushy, and blueberryish. the other is red, a tree, and obviously superior. Parvifolium ftw. #
• 19:07 I feel bad about leaving them with inferior spreadsheet setups, and feel compelled to redesign all my reports before I leave. #

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