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The Man Who Wouldn’t Share Something His Friend Had Written

Let’s get this trending, folks! Yippee!
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Two facebook statuses

that I remembered last week when there was all that reddit-talk about the new paradigm of reddit. These were posted right after Mubarak resigned: “Congratulations, Egypt! Welcome to democracy!”
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Some old pieces about the Facebook game Jetman

What an exciting title for a post. This is the game I am talking about: For a few weeks in college, everyone played this a lot on Facebook. In
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The Day Coffee Stopped Working

One surprising thing I learned recently is that coffee is losing its effect. Here’s a diagram from Science which shows how coffee’s ability to stimulate is undergoing exponential decay: I
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An Interview With Some Tweezers

    Here’s how I decided to deal with my acne when I was thirteen: An office. My 13 year old self is sitting at a desk. Tweezers enters.
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THE HUMAN FLOOR, Ctd.: JohnBaileyOwen.com receives the Official Human Floor “Stamp” of Approval

Or is that “stomp”…? Either way, the Human Floor humanely said he was Floored by the video I made for him: Happy Friday, ya filthy rotten animals!  
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“Scientific Explanations for Near-Death Experiences in Children”

“Scientific Explanations for Near-Death Experiences in Children” (Dutton, 1964) is part of my “Grim Academic Papers and Textbooks” collection. Here is one explanation, from the section “Going Towards the
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More wikipedia articles written just clearly by people with deep ties to the subject

Chris Schleicher found a good written-by-someone-who-has-some-stupid-personal-connection Wikipedia article on the movie “Lenny“: “One of the more interesting casting decisions was made while filming in the Broward County Courthouse; used as
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HOT TRACKS: “C’mon Let Me Ride” – a Skylar Grey song featuring Eminem

Skylar Grey is the person who sang the chorus on that Linkin Park guy’s rap side project “Fort Minor.” God do I not ever want to learn the story
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A Message From Lance Armstrong

Last August, I took advantage of an offer from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to be automatically stripped of my Tour de France titles by refusing to defend myself against
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