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“Yes,” Joseph said unto her, making a rapid note unto himself, “that inn we have definitely booked and not forgotten to book.”]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Basically Pleasant Bureaucrat vs. Sexy Murder Poet
SJW vs. IDW
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"In this notebook I develop a PGS predictor of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the country of origin of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions. I do this by treating GDP as a phenotype and then performing GWAS for that phenotype using a set of Arabidopsis genomes. I will make no attempt to correct for population structure at first-- this is the point of this excercise. All of the data for this comes from the 1001 Genomes dataset, its associated metadata, and GDP data that I gleaned from here."

--- Note that even after "correcting" for the top 10 principal components of genetic variation, he gets an out-of-sample R^2 of 0.14.  
(To check: were the held-out samples accidentally included in calculating the PCs?)  Hence the last tag.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://policyviz.com/product/john-snow-cholera-map-facemask/">
    <title>John Snow Cholera Map FaceMask - Policy Viz</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-15T20:52:23+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Vetoed by the wife, but perhaps of interest to readers.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:pointed coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- epidemiology spatial_statistics visual_display_of_quantitative_information</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/woman-facts">
    <title>Woman Facts - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency</title>
    <dc:date>2020-03-11T01:53:39+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/critically-acclaimed-horror-film-of-the-2010s-or-your-phd-program">
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    <dc:date>2019-08-15T20:57:45+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.oglaf.com/sithrak/">
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    <dc:date>2018-11-08T22:34:39+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Cf. Ezar Vorbarra: "I am an atheist, myself --- a simple faith, but a great comfort to me".]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2018/07/05/keep-scott-pruitt-moist/">
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    <dc:date>2018-07-13T13:47:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Scott Pruitt is certainly not terraforming the Earth to be warmer and stormier and filling the air with smog."

--- No, that's all of us.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:pointed horror parody us_politics</dc:subject>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In an effort to reduce the number of unprovoked hostile communications on the social media platform, Twitter announced Monday that it had added a red X-mark feature verifying users who are in fact perfectly okay to harass. “This new verification system offers users a simple, efficient way to determine which accounts belong to total pieces of shit whom you should have no qualms about tormenting to your heart’s desire,” said spokesperson Elizabeth James, adding that the small red symbol signifies that Twitter has officially confirmed the identity of a loathsome person who deserves the worst abuse imaginable and who will deliberately have their Mute, Block, and Report options disabled. “When a user sees this symbol, they know they’re dealing with a real asshole who has richly earned whatever mistreatment they receive, including profanity, body-shaming, leaking of personal information, and relentless goading to commit suicide. It’s really just a helpful way of saying to our users, ‘This fuck has it coming, so do your worst with a clear conscience and without fear of having your account suspended.’” At press time, Twitter reassuredly clarified that the red X was just a suggestion and that all users could still be bullied with as little recourse as they are now."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/11/17/this-is-the-group-thats-surprisingly-prone-to-violent-extremism/">
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Epic trolling, but for good.
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://diafygi.github.io/gnu-pricing/website/">
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    <link>https://diafygi.github.io/gnu-pricing/website/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As part of this deal, we will begin to add per-use fees to many of the popular GNU software we maintain, such as "ls", "dd", "cat", "grep", and many more. You can check out our pricing update and documentation on Github. Supported tools now include a "--pricing" flag so you can keep track of how much you owe us. For example, you can type "gcc --pricing" to get the amount you owe from compiling all those continuous integration deployments."]]></description>
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    <title>The Anti-Christ Handbook: The Horror and Hilarity of Left Behind - Kindle edition by Fred Clark. Religion &amp; Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ AmazonSmile.</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fred Clark has a book on _Left Behind_.  Why wasn't I informed?
]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2015-02-19T17:54:20+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Unfogged: All Hail Duke</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-25T02:22:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Boxill is a senior lecturer in the philosophy department and was chair of the faculty from 2011 to earlier this year. She directs the university's Parr Center for Ethics."

--- Remarks:
1. Well, many of us study what we don't understand.
2. Eliminate organized college sports.
3. Nobody could get away with that in a novel.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=l_F9jxsfGCw">
    <title>▶ Darius Kazemi, Tiny Subversions - How I Won the Lottery</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-23T02:15:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=l_F9jxsfGCw</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Completely, utterly, and totally correct.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:pointed funny:because_its_true advice heavy_tails market_failures_in_everything via:pinboard blogged</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:486acb171c29/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.clickhole.com/article/pittsburgh-new-austin-austin-we-hoped-and-dreamed--1227">
    <title>Is Pittsburgh The New Austin? The Austin We Hoped And Dreamed Of, The Austin That Was Foretold?</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-23T01:26:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.clickhole.com/article/pittsburgh-new-austin-austin-we-hoped-and-dreamed--1227</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Could it be? With low rents, a thriving arts scene, and old-school American authenticity, one city may be becoming the unexpected new home for a generation: Pittsburgh, PA. But is it truly the new Austin—the new Austin that was foretold to us? Do we dare dream it so?
"Up-and-coming millennials are among those hit hardest by the sluggish economy, and they’re looking for the next affordable, undiscovered city to settle in. Could their long quest be at its end? The historically rich steel-manufacturing town is home to over 40 colleges and universities brimming with young people, all with one shared dream: to be the next Austin. Not the Austin of old, but the one to come, promised to each other in shared dreams and secret whispers.
"Could it be possible that we have found the worthy successor to Austin?
"“But what of Portland?” one might ask.
"“What of Portland,” indeed. For years, tales of old claimed the Pacific Northwest city was the promised land—a new Eden upon this earth, where men and women would be free to think, and live, and love. A blossoming Eden teeming with hope and food trucks.
"But the old tales are clear reminders that the devil himself could not craft a trap so beautiful in its deceitfulness. And now, we ask, could our salvation lie in the City of Steel? It can. It must.
"“The journey has been long, and the trials have been many,” says Pittsburgh mayor Bill Peduto, “But young people looking for working-class authenticity surrounded by gorgeous natural scenery need look no further. It is written.”
"From microbreweries, to vegan dining, to endless converted industrial living and studio spaces, Pittsburgh may finally give a lost generation of wanderers a city to call home.
"“Oh, yeah, Pittsburgh is totally the new Austin,” said 26-year-old recent transplant and reclaimed wood sculptor Melinda Rodriguez. “The Austin foretold to us by our fathers and their fathers. The circle is complete.”
"Shooing away her pug with her foot, she added, “Speak not to me of Brooklyn. That name is a curse.”"

--- _The Onion_ is America's finest source of urbanism.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:pointed funny:because_its_true pittsburgh class_struggles_in_america have_read blogged</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:86a3ffa4f398/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.clickhole.com/article/summary-gamergate-movement-we-will-immediately-cha-1241">
    <title>A Summary Of The Gamergate Movement That We Will Immediately Change If Any Of Its Members Find Any Details Objectionable</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-23T01:04:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.clickhole.com/article/summary-gamergate-movement-we-will-immediately-cha-1241</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As always, _The Onion_ is America's only source for news.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:geeky funny:pointed nerdworld misogyny networked_life social_media have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:bd1ebd4ad2b1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://the-toast.net/2014/08/04/netflix-achieves-sentience-result-terrible-decision-making/">
    <title>In Which Netflix Achieves Sentience</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-17T01:11:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://the-toast.net/2014/08/04/netflix-achieves-sentience-result-terrible-decision-making/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:pointed watched_over_by_machines_of_loving_grace to:blog recommender_systems to_teach:data-mining</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:94beb910502d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lhcfeed.com/">
    <title>Live Feed From The Large Hadron Collider</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-29T13:12:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lhcfeed.com/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:pointed funny:geeky via:auerbach to:blog to:tumblr</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e1c918da5b5e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:auerbach"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:blog"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://the-toast.net/2014/07/08/dirtbag-john-milton/">
    <title>Dirtbag John Milton</title>
    <dc:date>2014-07-11T16:07:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://the-toast.net/2014/07/08/dirtbag-john-milton/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Did I request thee, Maker, from my Clay
To mould me Man, did I sollicite thee
From darkness to promote me, or here place
In this delicious Garden?
- Adam, Paradise Lost, John Milton

"“I didn’t ask to be born, you know.”
- Teens"]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:pointed affectionate_parody milton.john</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d8f69a2ebf9f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:affectionate_parody"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://itself.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/my-radical-pedagogical-program/">
    <title>My radical pedagogical program | An und für sich</title>
    <dc:date>2013-04-10T15:33:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://itself.wordpress.com/2013/04/09/my-radical-pedagogical-program/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Worth quoting in full:

"First, you need to read good books. To get the most out of those books, you need to talk about them with other people who are also trying to work their way through them. In addition, you need to write about them in a disciplined and focused way. Both of these tasks require supervision and guidance by more experienced learners — preferably those who have already gone through an educational program that takes both discussion and written analysis to the highest level.
"Second, for some types of skills — such as language acquisition, mathematical manipulation, and technical lab skills — there’s no way around requiring carefully targetted and supervised exercises. Preferably, these exercises would be developed and overseen by someone with a high degree of technical proficiency and experience in the field in question, as such a person would have the best view of which skills were most valuable.
"Finally, for command of facts, limited use of rote memorization can provide a baseline, but the main focus should be on learning how best to search for information and assess the trustworthiness of the sources found. All of this is best done in close dialogue with someone who has a lot of experience with research.
"I believe that the pedagogical research would bear all this out, and my own experience at an institution that embraces this model shows me that it works.
"Starting from these premises, certain natural consequences inevitably present themselves.
"First, we must minimize the number of full-time faculty at our institutions and rely heavily on less experienced instructors such as grad students. Second, we need to invest as many resources as possible in administration and capital-intensive projects such as new buildings and cutting-edge computer technology. Third, in order to increase access to quality education, we need to vastly “scale up” lecture courses to the point where students will have no direct contact with the instructor at all. (Indeed, we should repeatedly re-use recorded lectures so that the instructor doesn’t even need to be involved with the course on an ongoing basis.) Finally, in developing our programs, we need to be guided above all by the whims of wealthy donors — after all, if they’re willing to pay for it, it must be worth doing.
"Only by using such an evidence-based model of higher education can we continue the tradition of excellence that has made the American university system the envy of the world."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:blog moocs education academia funny:academic funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming funny:pointed via:jbdelong kotsko.adam</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c98fe75b2a34/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2013/02/13/inside-the-division-of-historical-defense/">
    <title>Inside the Division of Historical Defense — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-13T21:40:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2013/02/13/inside-the-division-of-historical-defense/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[No excerpt could do this justice.]]></description>
<dc:subject>uses_of_the_past history feminism american_history funny:pointed rauchway.eric reactionary_idiocy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a97f21c2c27b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:rauchway.eric"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kareem-abduljabbar/kareem-abdul-jabbar-girls-review_b_2615824.html?utm_hp_ref=tv&amp;ir=TV">
    <title>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Coming Out of the Locker Room Ghetto</title>
    <dc:date>2013-02-07T01:59:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kareem-abduljabbar/kareem-abdul-jabbar-girls-review_b_2615824.html?utm_hp_ref=tv&amp;ir=TV</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Some questioned why a man my age would watch a show about girls in their twenties, as if they'd just discovered me hanging around a school playground with a shopping bag full of candy in one hand a fluffy puppy in the other. Of course, these critics are right. When I read Moby Dick I first had to convince the bookseller that I was a former whaler named Queequeg. When I read the poetry of Sylvia Plath, I had to pretend I was a depressed white woman with daddy issues. Don't worry, I used a fake ID."]]></description>
<dc:subject>cultural_criticism funny:pointed popular_culture abdul-jabbar.kareem a_thing_of_beauty_is_a_joy_forever</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0b1c3ca60f1d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://archiveofourown.org/works/295726">
    <title>The Tough Guide to Fantasy Cities</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-09T19:05:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://archiveofourown.org/works/295726</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You will not encounter any rustic taverns, bards, or bowls of stew on these tours! Instead, expect nightclubs, rock singers, and lots of gourmet coffee."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:pointed fantasy affectionate_parody via:katenepveu</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:06e38da63c73/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://alisontyler.blogspot.com/2012/11/hey-baby-wanna-fill-out-form.html?zx=cb5f9ee7751d6af6">
    <title>Trollop with a Laptop: &quot;Hey Baby, Wanna Fill Out a Form?&quot;</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-21T04:07:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://alisontyler.blogspot.com/2012/11/hey-baby-wanna-fill-out-form.html?zx=cb5f9ee7751d6af6</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Are you sexually active? How many partners have you had? Does your current partner fulfill you?
"In my mind, these sound more like come-on lines than questions you’d see on a patient intake form at a doctor’s office. But I’ve been out of the dating scene for 17 years, so what do I know?"

--- It gets better from there.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:pointed funny:righteous bureaucracy tyler.alison nsfw actually_this_post_is_totally_sfw_its_just_the_site_which_will_get_you_in_trouble post_may_not_be_sfw_if_w_is_a_medical_office</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8eaaf9d129d2/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/08/29/karl-marx-republican/">
    <title>Karl Marx, Republican — The Monkey Cage</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-29T15:51:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/08/29/karl-marx-republican/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I am imagining a much more interesting GOP convention...]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:pointed marx.karl lincoln.abraham us_civil_war historical_irony via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://exoticwhitegirls.tumblr.com/post/29990764771/the-beautiful-white-dialect">
    <title>Les blanches exotiques - The beautiful white dialect</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-26T21:50:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://exoticwhitegirls.tumblr.com/post/29990764771/the-beautiful-white-dialect</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The over-all tumblr is quite funny, though evidently there are readers who don't get it at all.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:pointed funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming linguistics racism via:languagelog</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:00aa09c20178/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://annfriedman.com/post/26862182450/acceptable-catcalls">
    <title>Acceptable Catcalls</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-13T00:35:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://annfriedman.com/post/26862182450/acceptable-catcalls</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["- “Smile, honey, that leather tote is so now!”
- “Whatchu doin’ later? I’ve got a really good novel you should borrow.” 
- “Girl, those wedges are so fly yet practical.” 
- “Oooh baby I love your way.” [SAID BY THE SAME CATCALLER EVERY DAY.] 
- “Hey gorgeous, I won’t tell a soul that that shirt is from H&M four seasons ago. Let those suckers believe it’s vintage.” 
- “Charlotte Gainsbourg called. She wants her effortless sense of style back.” 
- “I love your color story today.” 
- [WHISTLES “SHE WORKS HARD FOR THE MONEY.”] 
- “Free ice cream and AAA batteries.” 
- “Baberaham Lincoln, vampire hunter!!”

"]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny funny:pointed parody sexism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8d93ccd09488/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:parody"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://diki.heliohost.org/parkinsonselection.htm">
    <title>Parkinson's Law: The Short List, or Principles of Selection</title>
    <dc:date>2012-06-19T17:59:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://diki.heliohost.org/parkinsonselection.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This has long guided my thinking about how to select people for just about anything.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:pointed management parkinson.c._northcote</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c8f00ff318c5/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:management"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:parkinson.c._northcote"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/">
    <title>Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is – Whatever</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-15T16:14:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/straight-white-male-the-lowest-difficulty-setting-there-is/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>inequality funny:geeky funny:pointed funny:sad scalzi.john</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e80a1da4e166/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:sad"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:scalzi.john"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/the-nonpartisan-wish/255937/">
    <title>The Nonpartisan Wish - Ta-Nehisi Coates - Politics - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-16T14:46:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/the-nonpartisan-wish/255937/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["With that said, these op-eds bemoaning partisanship, clutching pearls at the radicalism of Rick Santorum, and praying for candidacy in the mold of Mike Bloomberg always seem a little too close to home. Is it a mistake that they tend to reflect the political biases of a news media that is as freaked out by radical pro-lifers as it is by radical anti-war protesters? I allow that that is a subjective observation, it's mostly based on my 15 years in media. But the person Keller describes sounds suspiciously familiar to me. I've usually referred to him (or her) as "my editor." "]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:pointed funny:because_its_true us_politics coates.ta-nehisi</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:0477d3130d84/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:coates.ta-nehisi"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2012/04/fictitious-narrative-considered.html">
    <title>The Early Days of a Better Nation: Fictitious Narrative Considered Harmless</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-01T15:30:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2012/04/fictitious-narrative-considered.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>literary_criticism narrative folk_psychology funny:geeky funny:pointed macleod.ken austen.jane</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:39691021646e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:narrative"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:folk_psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:geeky"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:macleod.ken"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.scribd.com/doc/82844849/A-Simple-and-Convenient-Synthesis-of-Pseudoephedrine-From-N-Methylamphetamine">
    <title>A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-27T15:19:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.scribd.com/doc/82844849/A-Simple-and-Convenient-Synthesis-of-Pseudoephedrine-From-N-Methylamphetamine</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Pseudoephedrine, active ingredient of Sudafed®, has long been the most popular nasal decongestant in the United States due to its effectiveness and relatively mild side effects [1]. In recent years it has become increasingly difficult to obtain psuedoephedine in many states because of its use as a precursor for the illegal drug N-methylamphetamine (also known under various names including crystal meth, meth, ice, etc.)[1,2]. While in the past many stores were able to sell pseudoephedrine, new laws in the United States have restricted sales to pharmacies, with the medicine kept behind the counter. The pharmacies require signatures and examination of government issued ID in order to purchase pseudoephedrine.  Because the hours of availability of such pharmacies are often limited, it would be of great interest to have a simple synthesis of pseudoephedrine from reagents which can be more readily procured.
"A quick search of several neighborhoods of the United States revealed that while pseudoephedrine is difficult to obtain, N -methylamphetamine can be procured at almost anytime on short notice and in quantities sufficient for synthesisof useful amounts of the desired material. Moreover, according to government maintained statistics, N-methylmphetamine is becoming an increasingly attractive starting material for pseudoephedrine, as the availability of N-methylmphetamine has remained high while prices have dropped and purity has increased [2]. We present here a convenient series of transformations using reagents which can be found in most well stocked organic chemistry laboratories to produce psuedoephedrine from N -methylamphetamine."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:pointed chemistry meth drugs via:orzelc</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:dee470db7edd/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://followthedata.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/wolfram-alpha-pro-trial/">
    <title>Wolfram Alpha Pro trial « Follow the Data</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-27T01:14:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://followthedata.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/wolfram-alpha-pro-trial/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Other people may not take the same malicious glee in this that I do.]]></description>
<dc:subject>wolfram_alpha funny:pointed data_analysis to:blog artificial_intelligence</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8eea12f6d992/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:data_analysis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:blog"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:artificial_intelligence"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/02/17/not-being-able-to-scrape-by-with-200k-is-usually-your-own-fault/">
    <title>Not Being Able to Scrape By With $200k Is Usually Your Own Fault – Whatever</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-17T15:59:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/02/17/not-being-able-to-scrape-by-with-200k-is-usually-your-own-fault/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Aaaaaaand that’s then I want to start pressing the “It’s time for the goddamned revolution” button. By the time we get to the breakdowns of the monthly expenses of the seven 1% households profiled for the article, which features line items like $800 a month on wine and $1200 for the vacation house on the lake, I’m vaguely surprised Toronto isn’t on fire. The only people I feel any sort of commonality with are the immigrant family, who pack their own lunches for work and aside from the hair salon line item seem to have some perspective on their cash. The retired couple who invested well and are living off the proceeds also gets a pass, because, hey, that’s the goal, right? Otherwise: Purification by flame."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming funny:pointed scalzi.john inequality class_struggles_in_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:69d830589f52/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:scalzi.john"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:inequality"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:class_struggles_in_america"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/013466.html">
    <title>Making Light: And now, a word from the Unblinking Eye</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-18T03:07:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/013466.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The Motion Picture Association of America, chief sponsor and financier of SOPA and PIPA, addresses Wikipedia, Reddit, and other major sites going dark tomorrow, accusing them of “abuse of power.” “It’s a dangerous and troubling development when the platforms that serve as gateways to information intentionally skew the facts to incite their users in order to further their corporate interests.” In related news, the mutilated body of Irony was found washed up against a pier in the East River. She was pronounced dead at the scene."]]></description>
<dc:subject>networked_life funny:malicious funny:pointed us_politics intellectual_property</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:563a0f8927e8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:malicious"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/3439220.html?thread=65525364#t65525364">
    <title>james_nicoll: When would you say cyberpunk died?</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-23T21:35:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://james-nicoll.livejournal.com/3439220.html?thread=65525364#t65525364</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["mmcrivin: I think our world is closer to being a cyberpunk dystopia than to most old SF visions of the future. Japan isn't a global hegemon and states haven't withered away. But the combination of massive inequality, cheap electronic tech, and a ubiquitous Internet perpetually clotted with the activities of penny-ante scammers and crooks feels very cyberpunky to me.
scifantasy : That sort of depends what you think of as cyberpunk. Which underlies the whole debate, really.
mmcirvin : I suppose. Still, the fact that we're having this conversation on a post-Soviet forum periodically brought down by politically motivated distributed-denial-of-service attacks by botnets of hacker-controlled PCs with possible shadowy connections to elements in the Russian government, and the paroxysms are visually represented by a picture of a goggle-eyed goat chewing on a bundle of shredded wires?  Totally cyberpunk."]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:pointed mcirvin.matt cyberpunk science_fiction the_present_before_it_was_widely_distributed</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9c3c636a21d8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mcirvin.matt"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:cyberpunk"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:science_fiction"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_present_before_it_was_widely_distributed"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://angrydrunkbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2011/11/from-adb-archives.html">
    <title>The Angry Drunk Bureaucrat: From the ADB Archives</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-22T02:11:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://angrydrunkbureaucrat.blogspot.com/2011/11/from-adb-archives.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Smithfield, England (London Gazette, 1381) - Leaders of the so-called "Occupy London" movement have announced a meeting tomorrow with the King to discuss and air greviances relating to feudal abuses amongst the top 1% of the gentry. ... "]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:pointed us_politics occupy_wall_street peasants_revolt</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d02e7a522f11/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:occupy_wall_street"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:peasants_revolt"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/10/we-are-not-the-90.html">
    <title>We Are Not the 90%...</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-17T02:36:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/10/we-are-not-the-90.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[(checks table) Yep, this applies.]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:pointed us_politics inequality class_struggles_in_america occupy_wall_street delong.brad</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:220d1374e791/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:occupy_wall_street"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:delong.brad"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/hard-times-on-wall-street/">
    <title>Hard Times On Wall Street - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-10-14T04:58:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/hard-times-on-wall-street/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:pointed funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming inequality finance whats_gone_wrong_with_america</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:aa1aa2da51a7/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:finance"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.flickr.com/photos/quirkybird/sets/72157625545258050/with/5239678796/">
    <title>Danse Macabre 2.0 - a set on Flickr</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-27T03:37:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.flickr.com/photos/quirkybird/sets/72157625545258050/with/5239678796/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:morbid funny:pointed funny:geeky cartoons memento_mori via:long_story_short_pier meconis.dylan</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:22537c652ccd/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:long_story_short_pier"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/368914/december-16-2010/jesus-is-a-liberal-democrat">
    <title>Jesus Is a Liberal Democrat - The Colbert Report - 12/16/10 - Video Clip | Comedy Central</title>
    <dc:date>2010-12-18T02:31:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/368914/december-16-2010/jesus-is-a-liberal-democrat</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The 'H' obviously stands for 'Hussein'."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:pointed funny:sacriligious christianity us_politics moral_depravity colbert.stephen</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fb966c3e1818/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://xkcd.com/795/">
    <title>xkcd: Conditional Risk</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-20T12:45:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://xkcd.com/795/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Y'all can stop sending this to me now.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:pointed risk_assessment risk_perception bad_data_analysis xkcd</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4c29b1ae3537/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:risk_assessment"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:risk_perception"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bad_data_analysis"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:xkcd"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/mistakes-were-made.html">
    <title>&quot;Mistakes Were Made&quot;: Fafblog! the whole world's only source for Fafblog.</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-18T21:21:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://fafblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/mistakes-were-made.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[""If you had to do it all over again what would you do different?" says me.
"Nothing!" says Giblets. "Giblets has no regrets!"
"I think I'd travel more or go back to art school or maybe not drive the car off that cliff back when you said 'Hey Fafnir let's drive this car off that cliff'," says me.
"Oh, so we're back to this again!" says Giblets. "That was like, eight whole seconds ago. Let it go already! You're livin in the past!""
]]></description>
<dc:subject>fafblog funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming funny:pointed</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d3450fbab7c1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://thisisindexed.com/2010/09/childhoods-full-of-lies/">
    <title>Indexed » Blog Archive » Childhoods full of lies!</title>
    <dc:date>2010-09-06T14:19:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://thisisindexed.com/2010/09/childhoods-full-of-lies/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>cartoons indexed funny:pointed</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a390920ffb6e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:indexed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html">
    <title>Hyperbole and a Half: This is Why I'll Never be an Adult</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-03T03:50:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This.  This EXACTLY.  ("Internet FOREVER!")
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:pointed funny:because_its_true story_of_my_life procrastination moral_psychology via:unfogged</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b4d52ddbbcdb/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:story_of_my_life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:procrastination"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:moral_psychology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:unfogged"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2010/06/rendering-unto-krugman.html">
    <title>slacktivist: Rendering unto Krugman</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-29T12:06:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2010/06/rendering-unto-krugman.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But knowing their hypocrisy, he said unto them, "Why are you putting me to the test? Bring me a dime and let me see it."

And they brought one. Then he said to them, "Whose head is this -- FDR's or Herbert Hoover's?"

They answered, "Roosevelt's."

And he said unto them, "Right. So shut up. Have you morons already forgotten the 20th Century? When the choice is between imitating what worked and what really, really didn't work, why are you pretending it's terribly complicated?"

And after that, no one dared to ask him any question."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:pointed funny:religious moral_responsibility macroeconomics economic_policy slacktivist financial_crisis_of_2007--</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c496c74aba60/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:religious"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:economic_policy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:slacktivist"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://blog.regehr.org/archives/184">
    <title>Embedded in Academia : A Flowchart for Untenured Faculty Life</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-27T21:55:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.regehr.org/archives/184</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:academic funny:pointed funny:because_its_true story_of_my_life via:geomblog</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:cbcd6006b42b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:because_its_true"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:story_of_my_life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:geomblog"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2010/06/librazork-an-interactive-text-adventure.html">
    <title>The Little Professor: Librazork: An Interactive Text Adventure</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-27T00:54:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://littleprofessor.typepad.com/the_little_professor/2010/06/librazork-an-interactive-text-adventure.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The story of my life.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:pointed bibliophilia text_adventures burstein.miriam</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a5a4a374603a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bibliophilia"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:text_adventures"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:burstein.miriam"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2010/05/the-would-be-facebook-refugees-dilemma">
    <title>The Would-Be Facebook Refugee’s Dilemma : Lawyers, Guns &amp; Money</title>
    <dc:date>2010-05-05T20:40:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2010/05/the-would-be-facebook-refugees-dilemma</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Exit, voice, loyalty, and social-network lock-in: "Facebook is like a beloved national homeland poisoned by a corrupt and unyielding government. As in real life, a few people like Dan will respond to such a situation by ritual suicide. Others will choose to exercise voice and or soldier on with resigned loyalty to life under the boot. But in real life, a significant number of people choose to defect, to flee. That’s different from just “deleting” yourself. And to do that, you have to have somewhere to go.  Plenty of us would choose such an exile from the dictatorship of Facebook were there a welcoming neighbor nearby to which we could escape with our friends and families..."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>social_networks funny:pointed exit_voice_and_loyalty networked_life facebook</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9557fc27f72c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:exit_voice_and_loyalty"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/02/seeing_red_feeling_.html">
    <title>Mind Hacks: Seeing red, feeling hot, realising nothing</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-15T04:32:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2010/02/seeing_red_feeling_.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Seeing red leads men to view women as more attractive and more desirable despite them not being aware of any change in their perceptions. A delightful study from last year that, as the authors note, has 'clear practical implications'!"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:geeky funny:pointed experimental_psychology practices_relating_to_the_transmission_of_genetic_information</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:05c8b573ddb9/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:experimental_psychology"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/thought_experiment.php">
    <title>Thought experiment - James Fallows</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-24T20:36:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/thought_experiment.php</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>maps something_about_america us_politics funny:pointed</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:680bdced7911/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:maps"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:something_about_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://bigworldsmallvictories.tumblr.com/post/337700659/the-bright-side">
    <title>Small Victories - the bright side.</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-20T02:20:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bigworldsmallvictories.tumblr.com/post/337700659/the-bright-side</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["You're a better listener now."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:morbid funny:pointed funny:because_its_true via:warrenellis</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:69094f064003/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:because_its_true"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:warrenellis"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2009/12/28/political-correctness-gone-mad/">
    <title>Political Correctness Gone Mad — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-28T15:55:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2009/12/28/political-correctness-gone-mad/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:malicious funny:pointed funny:morbid funny:tasteless funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming engineers terrorism utter_stupidity stupid_security farrell.henry</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ffc3e7cd77b3/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:malicious"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:morbid"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:tasteless"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:engineers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:terrorism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:utter_stupidity"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:farrell.henry"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://coilhouse.net/2009/12/the-tv-show-by-sugimoto-kousuke/">
    <title>Coilhouse » Blog Archive » “The TV Show” by Sugimoto Kousuke</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-09T00:55:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://coilhouse.net/2009/12/the-tv-show-by-sugimoto-kousuke/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>animation funny:geeky funny:pointed beautiful post-modernism to:blog</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e8d8f4e95163/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:animation"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:geeky"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:beautiful"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:post-modernism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:blog"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/11/abjuration-and-recantation.html">
    <title>Abjuration and Recantation... - J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles</title>
    <dc:date>2009-11-06T15:56:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/11/abjuration-and-recantation.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I hereby deny, abjure, and repent my previous allegiance to the gospel of "Greenspanism." I reject Greenspan, and all his works, and all his empty promises.

I will strive now to walk in the light."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:academic delong.brad economics economic_policy funny:pointed financial_crisis_of_2007--</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1137a232762f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:academic"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:delong.brad"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:financial_crisis_of_2007--"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1630">
    <title>PartiallyClips - Halloween</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-27T13:25:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1630</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["That might be your belief system someday"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>halloween funny:pointed superstition</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f7c4c5452519/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:halloween"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:superstition"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/30/royalty/index.html">
    <title>It's time to embrace American royalty - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-31T18:05:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/30/royalty/index.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>corruption funny:pointed why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps vast_right-wing_conspiracy whats_gone_wrong_with_america nepotism meritocracy us_politics greenwald.glenn</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:4dc0e30aceea/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:funny:pointed"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:whats_gone_wrong_with_america"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:nepotism"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:meritocracy"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:greenwald.glenn"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://dikigoros.150m.com/parkinsonselection.htm">
    <title>Parkinson's Law: The Short List, or Principles of Selection</title>
    <dc:date>2009-06-03T18:27:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://dikigoros.150m.com/parkinsonselection.htm</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While the humor is somewhat dated (see, e.g., the end), the idea is in fact entirely sound.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bureaucracy management funny:pointed parkinson.c._northcote</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5ee2b906778c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:parkinson.c._northcote"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.fmylife.com/">
    <title>FMyLife - FML : Your everyday life stories.</title>
    <dc:date>2009-05-13T02:38:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.fmylife.com/</link>
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    <title>Grasping Reality with Both Hands: Really Existing Socialism</title>
    <dc:date>2009-04-10T12:17:21+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Surely the most likely explanation is that most of the people being surveyed have _no idea at all_ of what the word "socialism" means.  Nonetheless I do love this comment from Scott Martens: "You have to see the irony in the Reagan-Goldwaterite school of conservativism being responsible for the ultimate victory of the Second International. All we need now is to put a statue of Oskar Lange in the lobby of the Federal Reserve."
]]></description>
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