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Fuck Spammers

DELETE FROM bB_comments WHERE commenttext LIKE ‘%h1%’ Do you see this line? That’s my righteous sword that cleaves through comment-spam like the breath of god. Why they attempt to emphasize their futile gestures for porn and poker sites with a header tag is beyond me, perhaps lesser hosts

My bread and butter...

…has been twofold on these draining late-summer days. FirstN-Game, an insidiously difficult platform jumper, reminiscent of old NES games, both in the frustration factor and skill quotient. The tiny flash gem contains a fully functioning physics system, responsive enemies, death-defying jumps and 500 levels (5 per episode). Plus, custom made

Escape Artists

After a solid month of reading, I finally wrapped up The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. It’s one of those dense novels that takes a while to plow through, regardless of its literary merit. And this is a book that won a Pulitzer. The award is well deserved;

going dutch

Slate [http://www.slate.com/id/2124561/entry/2124562/] is running an excellent 5-piece article (one episode per day) on Amsterdam and European life. The writer catches on all the high points of this city – the canals, coffeehouses, gezellig, shrooming – and has a lot of the same sentiments I felt

Freud, Drugs and the mind

By now, most psychologists have thrown ole Sigmund on the pile of depreciated science. For now, his ideas live on in literary and cultural studies. His greatest gift – the terms id, ego and superego. Even the most mediocre psychology 101 student, not knowing the difference between chomsky and b.f.

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