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[links] Link salad flies back to the West Coast

A rather nice review of METAtropolis

Feat of Plaster: 1924 — A rather strange image from the always-interesting Shorpy.

The Kalinin K-7 prototype, circa 1933 — An extremely improbable looking bit of pre-WW II Soviet aviation courtesy of x planes. I especially like the Flintstones' landing gear.

In case you missed it, NASA announces a very strange terrestrial life form with interesting implications for exobiologyxkcd comments on this as well.

Yet Another Example of Someone Pretending the "Internet" Makes Normal Economic Laws New and Special — Andrew Wheeler is hilariously sarcastic.

Julian Assange and the Computer Conspiracy; "To destroy this invisible government"

?otD: Bacon?




12/03/2010
Writing time yesterday: 0.5 hours (WRPA, no word count)
Body movement: airport walking to come
Hours slept: 5.5 hours (interrupted)
This morning's weigh-in: n/a
Yesterday's chemo/post-op stress index: 3/10 (peripheral neuropathy, emotional distress)
Currently reading: Between books

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