December 2009
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In a historic vote, Philadelphia’s City Council this morning approved...
– This is good, good news.
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Dangerous Minds + Harry Potter = Dangerous Wands.
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The menorah was lighted and Hebrew prayers chanted, while the officer watched...
– [full article from the NY Times]
This holiday season, as a token of our appreciation to our most enthusiastic...
– From the Google Blog. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to find the irony in Google sending out actual mail as a holiday thanks for you using their email service.
I got something in the mail last week I’d been wanting for years: a Too Much Joy...
– A rather interesting story about music royalties may be found here.
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Entertaining reading: the Royal Society, in celebration of it’s 350th anniversary, has put a number of early papers online. There are a number of articles they wish to highlight and a fancy-but-hard-to-use timeline, but there is also an index of online issues (spanning 1665 - 1886) available here.
For example:
Antony van Leewenhoeck:
Observations,...