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November 6, 2007

Objet trouvé, de mon courriel

I don't know what you've been telling them, but I seem to get a lot of advertisements for the same product in my e-mail. [Warning: not work-safe]

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October 5, 2007

Don't send gifts to me via UPS

Why are people in brown shirts always ruining the world?

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September 28, 2007

The Apple business model

This shouldn't surprise nearly as many people as it has.

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September 19, 2007

Don't waste the First Amendment on this guy

By now, I'm sure you've seen this and read the phrase "freedom of speech" with more caps lock and exclamation points than the Founders ever intended.

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April 6, 2007

Spam: Where's the BEEF?

I like to think of myself as a responsible Netizen, but there's only one of me.

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December 16, 2006

I thought I would be safe here

So I just saw Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. No, I'm not going to review it, except to say that it was just what I expected – another Braveheart clone in foreign lingo and loincloths, with even more excised body parts dangled in front of their not-yet-dead owners. Enjoyable, on its own terms. However, something unexpected did happen.

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December 12, 2006

Ethical dilemma #849

I don't know what I should have done.

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November 29, 2006

On Doors

Do they know something I don't know?

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November 22, 2006

Autopilot

"A lecture is where information moves from the notes of the professor to the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either." - My old philosophy professor

Today in Cell Bio, the professor put up a slide about microarrays. Now, in all fairness, I'm working on microarrays in my research project, so there wasn't anything here I didn't already know. However, even if this had been new material, I still wouldn't have done what everyone else seemed to be doing.

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