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Twitter: 2008-06-18

Britain craze: Searching for swimming pools on Google Earth & having an uninvited swim in said private pool. http://moourl.com/DodgyDips # Flickr founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield are leaving Yahoo!: http://www.macworld.com/article/134035/2008/06/flickr.html # @jeffreymcmanus, mazel tov! #

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Haunted Family

Before chasing spirits was popularized by television ghost hunters armed with digital gadgetry and infrared video, one young woman traveled to the darkest corners of the globe, communing with the dead and chronicling her experiences in pen and ink.

At the time, Countess Catherine Buxhoeveden was married to famous paranormalist and author of 140 books Hans [...]

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Flickr: Chrysler Museum: Embroidered Kimono, Qing Dynasty http://tinyurl.com/6bdtcy # Flickr: Detail: Chrysler Museum: Embroidered Kimono, Qing Dynasty http://tinyurl.com/5sgmhg #

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@bre, I am not a prop–I am a human! being! (Couldn’t resist the reference. Carry on. Pay no attention to the Carla behind the curtain.) # ma.gnolia: TinyMCE Custom Buttons « WordPress Codex http://tinyurl.com/yvb4tj # @kellysims, so does my husband. Molly Ringwald is his red-headed [...]

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ma.gnolia: Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629) http://tinyurl.com/2nnzp4 # ma.gnolia: Guide to Early Church Documents http://tinyurl.com/27qbuj # ma.gnolia: Labyrinth Home Page: "Medieval studies scholarly resources compiled and org.. http://tinyurl.com/2gl4nt # ma.gnolia: BibleNet.net - Library - Fox’s Book of Martyrs http://tinyurl.com/2xnutb # [...]

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@kellysims, no prob. It’s all about the diplomacy. That counseling degree sometimes comes in handy. # ma.gnolia: You Ruined Everything: GeekDad Interviews Jonathan Coulton | Geekdad from Wired… http://tinyurl.com/24jd5c # Geraldine Ferraro has a lot of nerve!: http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1216129120080312 # Classic: "Chuck [...]

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@jonathancoulton, you must find that person, for I do believe they might need a beer. Or two. # ma.gnolia: Main Page - DVRpedia http://tinyurl.com/2ymxex # ma.gnolia: macosxhints.com - 10.5: Use a spring-loaded Path Bar in Smart folders http://tinyurl.com/ywbo6t # Flickr: Little Piney [...]

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I know him as “Mr. Curtis”, but he is now “Pastor Curtis”. He was one of the very best teachers I have ever had. Considering my education—public school; summer school at Yale; a B. A.; an M. Ed.; and post-graduate work at Harvard, ODU, and WIlliam and Mary—and considering how very many instructors I have [...]

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use it or lose it!, originally uploaded by honeyrider.

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Kenobi, the MacBook, a gift from Dad (thank you, o wonderiferous Papa, who will soon be getting your own new iMac delivered—hurry up, Apple, Dad’s getting antsy!

Why “Kenobi”? My latest computers have all been named for gurus, leaders—all of a certain bent, i.e., quirky, not always available, sometimes obtuse:

Chrestomanci, the Snow LE iMac, and then [...]

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