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Public Jon Snow — British newscaster and all-round eccentric national treasure — writes daily news summary emails for Channel 4. He's currently in St Paul covering the RNC and in his coverage of Sarah Palin's speech from yesterday included this rather striking summary of middle America:

‘It’s an odd thing being in two different parts of Middle America for a fortnight. Most of those who choose to come to America ...

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Public Crashing Crash Reporter is Crashy.

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Public !matthewlevine says: Join us for the !microformats weekly meetup dinner! Blondie's is half a block from the Powell Street BART, and serves up great salads, frozen yogurt, chicken, and (of course) pizza. Meet at one of the large tables downstairs.

http://microformats.or...

What

Microformats Weekly Meetup Dinner

Where

Blondie's Pizza (downstairs), 63 Powell St, SF

When

Tue, September 2 2008 at 6:30 p.m.

2 days ago Ben W. Reply! Forward

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Public First London !microformats weekly meetup dinner!

http://microformats.or...

Coincidentally just a couple of blocks from The Pipettes show: http://pownce.com/t/no...

What

London microformats meetup dinner!

Where

Wagamama, 4 Streatham Street, WC1A 1JB, London, England

When

Tue, September 2 2008 at 7:30 p.m.

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Public Attention London folks!

The Pipettes are playing a residency at The Fly Bar, September 1-3. I'm only going on the 2nd so I'm posting just that one night (stand). More deets on the Upcoming event:

http://upcoming.yahoo....

What

The Pipettes

Where

The Fly Bar, 36-38 New Oxford Street London, ENGLAND

When

Tue, September 2 2008 at 7:30 p.m.

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Public Beautiful footage of starlings flocking at dusk.

Here's a Flickr set of another storm of starlings: http://www.flickr.com/...

4 days ago Jeremy K. 1 Reply Forward

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Public Something that's been bothering me: In the first attack on the Death Star, you get an X-wing at the front, with 3 or so behind. The ones at the back get picked off one by one, but not before they shout "I can't hold them off any longer". Presumably - there's no way they can 'hold them off', so are they basically there to just get picked off ...

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5 days ago Jon H. 2 Replies Forward

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Public In the run up to the experiments about to be carried out at CERN, I am reminded of the other great scientific achievements of our time. We went to the moon. The fucking moon, people!

5 days ago Jeremy K. 2 Replies Forward

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Public I'm working on a very rambling talk for dConstruct next Friday.

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Public Aaron Draplin tells a story about a sign.

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Public Ubiquity is an interesting attempt from Mozilla Labs to enhance browser functionality through language parsing.

Aug 28th Jeremy K. 1 Reply Forward

Public Jen is my chiropractor here in SF and truly works miracles.

Her technique is different - no cracking or popping, and generates long-lasting improvements.

If you're in SF and have back problems, you should give her a call.

Aug 27th Ryan K. Reply! Forward

Public Hot Lixx Hulahan wins the World Air Guitar championships.

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Public Saturday mornings are a great time to go climbing.

What

climbing and bouldering

Where

Mission Cliffs, SF

When

Sat, August 30 2008 at 10 a.m.

Aug 27th Tantek Ç. 5 Replies Forward

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Public The Gutter Twins played in Brighton last night. I hadn't seen Greg Dulli in about ten years (not since the last Afghan Whigs tour anyway). I really like the Gutter Twins album but to be honest, the show was kind of disappointing. It was really short, for one thing. And they didn't seem to be putting too much effort into it either. Still... great songs.

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