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"Michael Bay: Okay, so boom goes the sphinx. Boom goes the pyramid. Boom! Boom! Boom! Go the HondaCivicstrons we positioned all around the entrance to the tomb. And then, whhhhhhhhiiiiiiirrrrr, click, clack, crunch, sweepy spin thwaaaack! Here comes Beefy, our hero, ready to kick some ass. Zot! Crunchy noise, crunchy noise, Taco Bell product placement, claaaaaaaang claaaaaaaaaaang, and we're done! "
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"Gregorio Espadas sees the Geocities closure as the definitive sign of the death of Web 1.0, with old-fashioned static websites replaced by the dynamic, interactive sites we all know and love today. I donât think the dividing line is quite that neat. Iâd suggest that sites like Tripod and Geocities were the first Web2.0 sites, years before Tim OâReilly and others had popularized the term. "
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A college news story about Alan Lightman's visit to campus.
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"Suppose a Fox News producer was holding me hostage and torturing me to get me to reveal the links between George Soros, Think Progress, and NBC News in a vast conspiracy to subvert Bill OâReilly. I would, I think, quickly âbreakâ and tell him everything I know. But what I know isnât what he wants to hear. After all, he already âknowsâ all kinds of stuff thereâs a âwell coordinated, well financed cabalâ that weâre involved with. He doesnât want to know what I know, he wants confirmation of what he already thinks he knows plus some additional juicy details. "
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Like an Internet personality test, with more liberal guilt. (I answered "yes" to 21/34)
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