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10/31/06
Waking Up to The Android's Dream
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Your Halloween Treat
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Drunk Like an Egyptian
10/31/06
Halloween Vs. The Economists
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Not to Make You Paranoid or Anything
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Dangerous Living
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Dressed for Halloween Success
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Your Monday Photo Shoot: Pumpkins!
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Just So You Know...
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The Stars Who Weren't There
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Pumpkin Brains!
10/28/06
Finding a Voice
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One for the Science Fiction Geeks
10/27/06
Getting in the Mood for Halloween
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Your Friday Music: The Walkmen
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Just to Make You Nervous Leading Up to the Elections
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Science Links! On a Friday!
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You Want Polls? We've Got Polls
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Handy People with Handiworks
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Weekend Assignment #136: Your Favorite Costume
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Other Linkables for Wednesday
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Playing With Firefox 2.0
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Political Geeks Aren't Like Other Geeks
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Some People Just Don't Really Want Jobs
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Pop Pop Boo
10/24/06
College: Still Expensive
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Perfectly Fall
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Two Teeth Related Bits For You to Chew On
10/24/06
I Knew There Was a Reason I wasn't a Big Cell Phone User
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Afternoon Updating
10/23/06
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Things You Made
10/23/06
Songs for a Halloween
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Living in America... in 2043
10/23/06
Monday Links to Consider
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Back From Where I Was to Where I Am
10/22/06
A Heart-Warming Story for a Chilly Sunday
10/21/06
Traveling Today
10/20/06
One of My Vanishingly Rare Sports Entries
10/20/06
Gettin' All Scientifical On You On a Friday Afternoon
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Some Friday Frivolity For Ye
10/20/06
For When You Need an Excuse
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Some Stuff About Guys
10/19/06
Weekend Assignment #135: Songs for a Spooky Evening
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Oddly Colorful
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Where is Scalzi?
10/18/06
Keeping the Rebellious Hedges in Line
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Your Wednesday Author Interview: Cherie Priest
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I Sense You're Not Procrastinating Enough Yet
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Santa at #4? Someone's Getting Coal in Their Stocking This Year
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Two Videos for A Wednesday
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Book Arrives
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When Scientists Roll Their Eyes
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Oh, No! These Towns Will Steal Your Sports Teams!
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Caffeine is Not a Toy
10/17/06
300 Million (and Counting)
10/16/06
Free Speech Heroes
10/16/06
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Off-Color Photos
10/16/06
Now We Know Who to Blame
10/16/06
Yeah, Yeah. I Can't Drive 55 Anymore, Either, Sammy.
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Thank You For Smoking
10/15/06
Those Crazy Kids
10/15/06
Game For a Sunday
10/14/06
Computers and Kitty Litter
10/14/06
"One of Ohio's Finest Citizens"
10/13/06
Friday The 13th! Hide!
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Getting Medieval on Your Ears
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You Got (Un)Lucky, Babe
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Wait Until They Get to the Poppy Fields
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Not a Retirement Plan You Want to Have to Implement
10/12/06
Photo Foliage
10/12/06
Weekend Assignment #133: Heroes of Free Speech
10/12/06
#1 On the List of Things Which Violate the Geneva Conventions
10/12/06
Getting People to Comment
10/12/06
The Coolest Picture You'll See of Saturn All Day
10/11/06
Guest Dog
10/11/06
Cursive = Doomed
10/11/06
This Just In: Sixth Seal of the Apocalypse Has Just Been Cracked!
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And If You Really Annoy Them, You'll Be Drawn and Quartered
10/11/06
The Next Time Someone Suggests You Have Too Much Time on Your Hands, Show Them This
10/10/06
Recess: Making a Comeback?
10/10/06
Is That A Nuclear Bomb You're Testing, Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
10/10/06
When the Aliens Attack, It'll Be in Retaliation for Beaming Up Justin Timberlake Songs
10/10/06
Life's Greatest Hits
10/10/06
Have Another Sunset
10/9/06
The Great Cell Phone Massacre of 2006
10/9/06
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Foliage 2006
10/9/06
Booksellers, Thriving in Their Niche
10/9/06
How Many of You Are There?
10/9/06
A Little Astronomical Humor For You All
10/8/06
Leaving the Left Coast
10/8/06
Forget The Joneses
10/7/06
A Letter From Iraq
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Another Kind of Connection
10/6/06
Here in Oakland
10/5/06
Weekend Assignment #132: Cell Phones -- Threat or Menace?
10/5/06
Bobbly, Boingy and Bouncy
10/5/06
One of those "Weep for the Nation" Moments
10/5/06
Big News on the "Beam Me Up" Front
10/5/06
Busier Than a One-Legged Man Playing Dance Dance Revolution
10/4/06
Wednesday Author Interview: Mark Budz
10/4/06
October Sundog and Travel News
10/4/06
Far Worse Than a Gremlin on the Wing
10/4/06
If It's Wednesday, It's Time to Go Entirely Insane
10/4/06
"Come On, Ted, I'm Trying to Sleep, Here."
10/3/06
The June 2005 Expiration Date Explains Why You All Have The Heads of Fish
10/3/06
Proving, Primarily, That Even Dead, The British Have Questionable Musical Taste
10/3/06
Indra Nooyi Can Crush You Like a Grape, My Friend
10/3/06
Eight Years in Five Minutes
10/3/06
From The "They Did It So You Don't Have To" File
10/2/06
Your Monday Photo Shoot: Bobble Heads!
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You Devil, You
10/2/06
Turn That Music Down
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Just Putt Around the Pedestrians
10/2/06
Your Monday Morning Noodle Baker
10/1/06
Happy October!
10/1/06
For Your Sunday Quibbling Pleasure
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006
10:35:00 AM EDT
Hearing No One Lives Forever -- Oingo Boingo

Life's Greatest Hits


Life is certainly inventive -- look at all the ways it exists -- but what are life's top ten inventions? New Scientist hazards a list, which includes things like eyes, multicellularism and symbiosis. It also includes death, which personally I'm not so sure about, even if I agree that evolutionarily it makes sense. I'm just not entirely sure that I want it for myself; the same with parasitism, which is also on the list. Yes, death and parasites: Great inventions I'll be happy to let others partake of first. Really, after you.


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