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  • ▼ 2009 (156)
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      • Bike sharing that creates energy – and pays you to...
      • chocolate that doesn't melt and is low in calories...
      • IRI Marketing Data Set: one year anniversary.
      • Sign of a bad economy
      • Frazz getting more obscure
      • Oscar Mayer, R.I.P.
      • A small step for man, a giant leap for mankind.
      • Anything happen while I was gone?
      • Ace Hardware on Twitter
      • Banks get "A Real Free Lunch"
    • ► June (28)
      • Franco still dead, but no longer mayor
      • Free Malcolm Gladwell
      • Too much truth on bank assets
      • Jenny Sanford for Governor of Illinois?
      • Wind power has more potential than I thought
      • Chicago Olympic Cycling really in Wisconsin
      • When it is safe to hire an ex-con?
      • Identical random meetings
      • Netflix prize won
      • Selling your soul at the U of Illinois
      • Selling your soul in Latvia
      • Greenhouse gasses = big ears?
      • Can you get drunk on liquid soap?
      • Good thing I don't need a roommate
      • The problem with books
      • Dinosaurs lose weight by remodeling
      • Lucky 7's in the Iranian election.
      • Thought for the day
      • Can I have 2.71828183 of these?
      • Cute warning: now posting pictures of cats
      • Jesus a tad late
      • Biking: Safety in numbers
      • Statistic of the day
      • What retail businesses survive unchanged?
      • NLP: Natural Language Processing: Wrong question?
      • Killing Church Ushers
      • Quote of the Day: Carlin
      • Category I dies now, but will resurface like a zom...
    • ► May (15)
      • 17 year cicadas and Illinois politics
      • Cro-Magnon needles
      • Fishing thought for the day
      • Taxpayer dollars at work
      • Are women less happy?
      • Pole of Inaccessibility
      • Another way to look at your job
      • Greatest thing since when?
      • WolframAlpha prepares to advance human knowledge
      • More on "n" as a male name marker
      • Males names: the "n" word
      • Economics joker
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