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Book News

Category: Bibliophilia

Three book-related items up today: First, a hearty congratulations to Brian Switek, whose book, now titled Written In Stone, is set to be published next fall! If the sample chapters I saw a few months back are any indication, Brian's...

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Blogging Queue Overflow: Abort, Retry, Fail?

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Wherein the author jots a few quick notes and takes a break.

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AFB

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While I'm away, amuse yourselves with a new AlpineKat rap video.

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Announcements

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1. Either I gave myself psychosomatic pain in my right leg from watching too many episodes of House, or I banged my foot while assaulting the punching bag recently installed in my home. I mentioned the pain to a housemate,...

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On Vacation

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Where by "vacation" I mean "working on a task which is not blogging"....

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Announcements: Skeptics in the Pub and Blog Break

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As a result of my post on "How We (Don't) Write Mathematics on the Web", I've been pointed to some new toys which I'm going to have to try out. This will involve my switching blogging time over to coding...

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Vertices for My Vacation

Category: Carnivalia

Last night, I had a nightmare about trying to reach ScienceOnline '09: our plane landed, and for some reason dismissed by everybody else as charming local colour, it had to taxi through the Appalachian foothills for five hours. It's probably...

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Social and Administrative Notes

Tomorrow evening I will be attending Boston's First Night festivities, which involve things like illuminated ice sculptures and whatnot outside and various artistic performances indoors. Joshua successfully inveigled me into attending a theatrical performance in the Orpheum, on the rationale...

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In Other Irrelevant News: Link Exchange with the New York Times

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In today's instalment of "things which don't concern me", ScienceBlogs has entered into a link exchange with NYTimes.com, such that up to five posts per day on this site will be featured in a new widget on their Science and...

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Teaser

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This is one bit of the project which is currently occupying my time outside of regular business hours: What am I doing instead of blogging?...

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