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Déjà Dup on Youtube

Here’s a neat video I found via Google Alerts:

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Sita Sings the Blues

Via Lydia Pintscher, I found Sita Sings the Blues, a delightful CC-licensed movie. It’s basically a “musical, animated personal interpretation of the Indian epic the Ramayana.” One neat thing it does...

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On Happiness

There is an excellent TED talk about happiness and the tension between the “remembering self” and the “experiencing self.” It touches several things that I happen to have been talking about with people...

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Lady Gaga Needs to Wise Up

So I get why no one told Lady Gaga before the video for “Telephone” came out, because naturally, no one wanted to prevent that work of art from seeing daylight. Now that it’s been out for a while, I...

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Playing Well: No Stress Losing

This is part of a series on how to play games well: Stoicly and enjoyably. Not to triumph, but to have fun. How to deal with failure? Everyone loses, but not always well. One easy strategy is to...

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Playing Well: Golden Rule

This is part of a series on how to play games well: Stoicly and enjoyably. Not to triumph, but to have fun. This one is simple. Merely putting yourself in the other players’ shoes is the key to winning...

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Howliday 2011

As is rapidly becoming a new Howliday tradition, I’m posting my Howliday entry super late. Nothing of super note, just that we decided cookies were the new tradition, based on Meg’s excellent batch....

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Quote of the Day

From The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: The pajamas were patterned with red pinstripes and tiny blue escutcheons. Sammy was wearing a pair that had red escutcheons with blue pinstripes....

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Howliday 2012

Woo! Another year, another Howliday. This year, the new tradition was eating at a diner. We’d managed to do it three years in a row, so we figured it was time to lock it in. The less you are at your...

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New Music Sources

This past year, I’ve realized I like finding new music more than I previously realized. I figure it might be interesting to share my own sources for new music and maybe receive some good...

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Howliday 2013

Just a quick note to future me: now Howlidays are no longer celebrated on the first Tuesday after December 10th. We never did manage to get it right anyway. So the new tradition is a codification of...

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Quick Book Recommendation

I’ve been trying to read more books from my local library’s “recommended” sections, to avoid a reading rut. And one such book was Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell. It was great! It’s a...

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Howliday 2010

I’ve been meaning to post about this year’s Howliday, lest its new tradition get lost in the haze of memory. Seeing as all participants were people that happened to have beards, it was discovered that...

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FastMail is the Perfect Gmail Alternative

If, for whatever reason, you’re looking to switch from Gmail, I think you’ll love FastMail. Its workflow, interface, and features will be immediately recognizable to you: it has conversation view,...

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What’s Next

So. The 2016 election happened. Many of my friends and I are understandably concerned about the future. But more than anything we want concrete actions we can take to improve things (versus say,...

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