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on October 8, 2008 8:15 AM
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17 years ago this week Linus announces "a free version of a minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers."

"Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! = Shadow of the Colossus"



Your Free Will Astrology for the week.

"Judge Orders 17 Detainees at Guantánamo Freed"



"The Ambition of the Short Story" (via Kottke)

"The exhibition of this fundamentalist version of femininity and maternity in the American presidential election concerns all of us," wrote Julia Kristeva in Libération. "Whether she represents the banality of evil or tragic caricature, can this strangling of women's emancipation... be reversed?"

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