2005 November

Maculate ception

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Not needing an umbrella, due to the clement weather, she furled the small, weildy flag with both hands, full of ruth at one so vincible, pervious to her own pain. Although he had been maculate, with peccable taste, he was gainly and couth and his love for her was truly requited…

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Kansas science classes taken over by the wicked witch of the west.

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Dorothy: “Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.” The Kansas state motto is ‘ad astra per aspera’ – to the stars through adversity. Sometime Kansan, Charles Lindbergh, was the first person to fly Accross the Atlantic. A Kansan, Steve Hawley, was on board the first flight of the space shuttle, Discovery, and that same Kansan was in charge of deploying the Hubble Telescope. Somewhere in a Kansas school is a litlle girl or boy who could have taken us further towards the stars if it hadn’t just been made deliberately more difficult. And all because a few arrogant grown ups banged their heads and are off to see the Wizard. I’d love to write a satire of the Kansas School Board based on the Wizard of Oz. Ad Astra Per Veritas. Pharyngula::Goodbye, Kansas

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Microchunking ecommerce

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Michael Parekh explains wists much better than I ever could in his post: microchunking commerce the web 2.0 way. Speaking of which, having eaten my own dogfood by doing cribcandy I now know what I need to fix on wists to make it a lot better. I’m working hard to try and get a decent wists release out and some more cribcandy like sites are in the pipeline.

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