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Rob alerted the world to this list of Voting Records by Average IQ and Annual Income .
Nice work, poor dumb asses.

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Recordings from the Conet Project are now available.
These are the mysterious shortwave transmissions that Wilco stole the "Yankee...Hotel...Foxtrot" intonations from.
Governments claim to have no responsibility, but it is widely suspected that they are transmitting information to spies.
Whatever they are, it is sort of voyeuristically fascinating to listen to them and try to pull apart what they may be saying.

A complete set of MP3s Here. (This site goes down sometimes, so circle back if it ain't workin')
Here is the link to the lady saying "Yankee...Hotel...Foxtrot" over and over again

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The 84 Great Things about 1984 from ESPN.Com

37. "Hello" (Lionel Ritchie) -- This was the one where Lionel falls for the blind girl who made the bust that looked nothing like him. Remember that one? She told him, "This is what I see when I see you," then she showed him a sculpture of Barry Sanders, who wasn't even famous yet.
and 63. "Romancing The Stone" -- Kathleen Turner was so remarkably hot in this movie, people were high-fiving in the theater. Fifteen years later, she was appearing on "Friends" as Chandler's transexual Dad. I will now rip my earlobes off.

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Just Finished: Crawling at Night by Nani Power (234 pp, Hardcover)
Christ, was this book depressing. If I wanted to experience how a bunch of washed-up alcoholics spend their days, I'll hang out with my band.

The only thing I liked about it was the cover.

not really recommended, sorry Gerard.

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BEHOLD:
The Oracle of Bacon

Mark Deming has a Bacon number of 2.
Mark R. Deming was in A Wedding (1978) with Jeff Perry
Jeff Perry was in Wild Things (1998) with Kevin Bacon


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hey.
here's a service that will take your dead grandma and turn her into bling.
scott

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Thanks Rob
Thanks Scott
Thanks David
Thanks J-Lo

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