Yep

Truly, I get raked across the copyediting coals for exactly this so, so often. And? It’s not just Indian. In CJ Box’s books, there’s a lot of lip-pointing, a lot of chinning at stuff. Feels so right. Feels like the world I know. Which matters.

First Nations man breaks 100-metre Lip Point record

Thanks to Samuel Matz for the headsup on this.

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The Facebook

In a few thousands years, I figure the aliens that come to dig through humanity’s (many, many) relics will find a thin strata of light blue in these early-is 2000s:

https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell/

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Minnesota-bound

There for a lot of the days of this week. See some of you there, maybe:

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The Gothic Romance

One of the better threads I’ve lucked onto in birdland:

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Death of the Fanboy

Had this stranded in a tab for weeks, finally cued it up just now. Good stuff:

http://nerdsthatgeek.com/blogs/the-death-of-the-fanboy 

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