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“Love Story” Is a Forgettable Elegy for Gen X - The FX series, with its Wikipedia-page-like narrowness on the romance between John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Carolyn Bessette, excises all that contemporary dra...
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NPR News: 02-14-2026 3PM EST - NPR News: 02-14-2026 3PM EST Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy2 hours ago
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My Son Was Being Disgusting Online. My Solution Has Had Unintended Consequences. - The internet is bad.4 hours ago
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'Wait Wait' for February 14, 2026: With Not My Job guest Arden Cho - This week, Wait Wait is live in Chicago with guest host Negin Farsad, special guest Arden Cho and panelists Tom Papa, Paula Poundstone, and Beth Stelling5 hours ago
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The paradox of Bangladesh’s democratic rebirth: A critical analysis of the 2026 election’s promise and pitfalls - With 127.7 million registered voters—including 64.8 million men, 62.9 million women, and 1,234 third-gender voters—the 13th National Parliamentary Election...5 hours ago
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Central Cee Announces New EP All Roads Lead Home: Hear “Slaughter” (Feat. J Hus) & “Iceman Freestyle” - A little over a year ago, Central Cee’s Can’t Rush Greatness was our Album Of The Week. Since then, he’s collaborated with Drake, Sexyy Red, and more. No...7 hours ago
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The ethics and art of aerial wildlife photography - [image: j Whales 26-7-2025 8] A gigantic fin whale gently breaking the water's surface. What do you feel about the top-down shooting angle in this image...
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Briefing Chat: Caffeine slows brain ageing, suggests decades of data - *In this episode:* *00:26 Moderate caffeine intake might reduce dementia risk, study suggests* *Nature: **Coffee linked to slower brain ageing in study ...1 day ago
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Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination - [image: 'The zero line in WMM2025 passes through a lot of population centers; I wonder what year the largest share of the population lived in a zone of les...1 day ago
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Les boissons dans L'œuvre d'Émile Zola - Zola nous plonge dans le monde des artistes Parisiens avec "L'œuvre". Claude Lantier, fils ainé de Gervaise (cf. l'Assommoir) est un peintre à l'origine ...
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Empathic Leadership - Empathy is often viewed as a soft skill in the world of business, but is it actually essential for any leadership structure? On this episode, Dr. Melissa R...3 days ago
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22 Years of Flickr. - We're sentimental at heart, and we also love a good data dive. So we put together a look at the gear, trends, and features our community loved this past year.4 days ago
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The Skeptics Guide #1074 - Feb 7 2026 - Quickie with Bob: The Death of 8k TV; News Items: Faith-Based Addiction Programs, Noise and Sleep, A Fully Renewable Grid, Moltbook for AI Agents Only; Who...1 week ago
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Reviewing 2025 - This blog has been quiet in 2025. For one thing, blogs already seem to be a relic of the past (did you know that kids in the high school IB program learn...1 month ago
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社會設計導論：More than YouBike - 2009年，YouBike 在台北市信義計畫區啟用。這套系統的設計意圖很清楚：解決「最後一哩路」問題，讓自行車成為公共運輸的延伸，推動綠色交通。十幾年後，YouBike 的確「成功」了，騎乘次數突破十億，站點遍布全台，成為城市基礎設施的一部分。 但正是這個「成功」，讓其他問題浮現。 當自行車從個人資產...
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How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO) - Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic. I opened ChatGPT and asked a simple question: "What's the ...2 months ago
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My Uncle Said Rub Some Dirt in It - src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">2 months ago
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Doom and Hulk Dialogue - Dr. Doom: adjusts metal mask "Hulk, your analysis of neoliberalism as a form of governmental rationality is intriguing, but it lacks the systematic critiq...4 months ago
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This is what the future of media looks like | Hamish McKenzie - What if the polarizing mess of social media, clickbait headlines and addictive algorithms isn't a breakdown of media but a transition to something better? ...
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Thoughts on my 56th Birthday (Cascading towards Catastrophe) - Taking the long view during times of crisis is a luxury, but seeing as it’s my birthday (or was when I started this essay) I’m allowing myself the indul...
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Alphabetic ‘s’ for Ms. - Recently, Victor Mair posted an image from Taichung of an apostrophe r representing “Mr.” (Alphabetic “Mr.” and “Mrs. / Ms.” in Chinese) Here’s a companion...1 year ago
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How to Generate Software License Keys and Verify Them - You are running a small software business that sells digital downloads - apps, plugins, or even templates. When the buyer completes the…1 year ago
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FTC rule finalized — governments and business protected from AI impersonation scams - [image: FTC rule finalized rule to protect from AI scams] The Federal Trade Commission has approved a regulation prohibiting impersonating a government age...1 year ago
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大企業都不推AI「產品」而只發表一個AI「名字」，背後暗示的四大意義 - 過去一年，看得到各家軟體應用大廠，無論是B2B或B2C，都開始說他們一定會導入生成式AI在他們產品中。這樣經過 […]
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Carissa Véliz on Digital Ethics - Digital Ethics is a new field. What is its main focus? Carissa Véliz discusses digital ethics with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites ...2 years ago
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Ransomware, cybercrimes and how to stay safe - n 2022, the Optus data breach, along with the Medibank hack, saw the theft of the personal information of millions of Australians. In the last decade, ther...3 years ago
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Easily track your packages with new Gmail features - New Gmail features make it easier to track your packages.3 years ago
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30 Books for Nonfiction November - My Several Worlds - Advocating for Chronic Illness Awareness in Asia A Bookstagram challenge made me do it! I posted a nonfiction read for each day of No...3 years ago
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ANNOUNCEMENT and Why the Tesla Humanoid Robot Matters - Irena Cronin and I are seeing huge shifts coming as autonomous vehicles get to the point where they are driving around San Francisco without humans. We rec...3 years ago
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要讓大家認識我們之第一步 - 客家電視台"活力新故鄉"拍攝 Day2 - 拍攝第二天: 10:00 拍攝老威離開教室與Josh老師交接，老威騎摩托車離開學校的片段(安裝gopro在他摩托車上) 11:30 拍攝老威遛狗的畫面3 years ago
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7 resources to share with your students for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month - [image: Blog 2.png] *Quizlet is proud to partner with teachers to showcase authentic voices on our blog. This guest post is by Yasmin Forbes.* To honor As...3 years ago
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Where to Watch Movie Back to the North Online Free Full Access - Back to the North 2015 Full Movie Free Download Watch Online 1080p Download Back to the North Movie 2015 HDRip ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ , WEB-DLRip Download Back to the North ...
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Sapiens By Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari was absolutely one of the coolest and most fascinating books I’ve ever read. While I was reading it, I wanted to buy and giv...5 years ago
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Our Visit to Thailand, 2020 - It’s been over a year since our last post. It’s not because we haven’t been doing anything – on the The post Our Visit to Thailand, 2020 first appeared on...6 years ago
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【書展資訊】2020年蝴蝶線上郵購專案 - 蝴蝶館一年一度的線上郵購即日起開始訂購！ 無法前來參與台北國際書展的蝶迷們， 現在就可以下載網路訂購單直接向本公司訂購， 下載網址: https://reurl.cc/oDEyzQ 並且同享台北國際書展會場優惠折扣。6 years ago
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[土耳其] 伊斯坦堡地下水宮殿 Yerebatan Palace, Istanbul - 這個 ''伊斯坦堡地下水宮殿 Yerebatan Palace'' 是一個需要買門票才能入內參觀的景點。就憑這個'' 宮殿" 的名稱，大家都會覺得這應該是一個非常具有看頭的宏偉歷史古蹟，而且這裡的門票是伊斯坦堡所有收費景點裡面唯一沒有漲價，價格最便宜，只有20里拉一個人，不到這裡參觀很有可能會後悔。就因為大...6 years ago
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NBA Finals Illusion - The NBA finals are well on its way between the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors. A very odd place to spot optical illusions if… The post NBA Fi...6 years ago
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เปิดราคาค่าหัวล่าสุดวาบิสซาก้า แมนยูโอเครไหม - ดิ อินเดเพนเดนท์ สื่อชื่อก้องของอังกฤษ เปิดเผยว่าตอนนี้ คริสตัล พาเลซ ตั้งค่าตัวของ อารอน วาน บิสซาก้า แบ็กขวาความเร็วสูงเอาไว้ถึง 70 ล้านปอนด์ แต่ทาง แม...6 years ago
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【書展訊息】2019蝴蝶館線上書展～可以訂購沈默社服嘍！ - 錯過預購，錯過台北國際書展的你， 想要入手帥氣威武、驅穢逐惡，十分適合搭配動滋動滋音樂舞動的－－ 沈默的祕密結社社服嗎？ 快來下載2019蝴蝶館線上書展網路訂購單，直接向雅書堂訂購吧！ 不但直接送到家，而且還同享台北國際書展會場優惠折扣喔！6 years ago
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Paper on Parade: the enclave of once-Muslim families in Lukang - *An address sign in Guocuoli* Time once again for our regularly irregular feature on a scholarly paper about Taiwan... While I was looking at the compli...7 years ago
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Golden Shower Trees – Cassia fistula [阿勃勒] - Here is a small collection of images of the unfortunately named Golden Shower Trees [Cassia fistula (阿勃勒)] taken in Jhongsing Village [中興新村] in early June....7 years ago
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The Novel Writing Seminar Begins - Want to be a more effective novelist? Many writers find it stressful to work on a full-length book project. People struggle with plotting, and with not k...7 years ago
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Shakespeare's Words version 3.0 launches today - The better the day, the better the deed, as Shakespeare didn't say. But for everything he did say Ben amd I are thrilled to announce that we've reached th...7 years ago
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Escape Pod 620: Promise (Artemis Rising) - Author : Christi Nogle Narrator : Tina Connolly Host : S. Kay Nash Audio Producer : Adam Pracht Artist : Geneva Benton Discuss on Forums Escape Pod 620: ...7 years ago
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Something rather mischievous - A message from Stephen Fry The post Something rather mischievous appeared first on Official site of Stephen Fry.7 years ago
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Learning from my own book - The most popular piece I’ve written on this site over the past few was about Teaching English Online. I wrote it while I was hanging out with a bunch of di...8 years ago
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The Neiwan Branch Line: Riding Back in Time by Train (Travel in Taiwan) - The first time I experienced the Neiwan Branch Railway was on another assignment for *Travel in Taiwan*, nearly twenty years ago. I thereafter rode the tra...8 years ago
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Adjust contrast of a pdf free - Closer to the eye of the shooter, this is because Preview is quite literally applying a filter to each individual page of the PDF you are saving. the proce...8 years ago
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How do the world’s biggest drug companies compare, in their transparency commitments? - Here’s a paper, and associated website, that we launch today: we have assessed, and then ranked, all the biggest drug companies in the world, to compare th...8 years ago
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Measuring exhibition 2121 Design : Songshan Taipei - Taipei’s got a blooming cultural scene, with new cultural districts offering lots of cultural events, exhibitions, and art displays. In 2014 I made a cul...8 years ago
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Density Ornaments – Science Plus Holiday Art! - We decorated our Christmas tree this evening. During the process, someone found a long lost box of empty glass ball Christmas ornaments that they sell at ...9 years ago
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20160721 vlog 029 狗狗鮮食 - 我朋友都煮狗狗能一起吃的食物，例如這道普羅旺斯燉蔬菜加雞胸和義大利麵。狗狗一盤，人一盤，人吃的，最後可以加點鹽巴。 那天我吃了一大盤，真好吃～ 寵物該吃什麼，不該吃什麼，有不同說法，有疑慮，請跟獸醫師討論～ 對我朋友Joy的狗狗料理有興趣的朋友，請到搜尋臉書「狗以食為天」，三不五時開課喔～ htt...
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Music from Taipei: building demolition - When an excavator blasts a building apart in a crowded part of Taipei where thousands of workers are straining their brains at office desks, it sends us al...9 years ago
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【手機食記】北區 - 適合小型聚餐的泰萊泰式料理 - 有了第一次成功帶仙女外出用餐的經驗後，我們夫妻兩周末一有閒錢也會趁機犒賞自己一下。趁著仙女還可以接受我們吃不一樣的東西的時候，趕快來吃些不用顧慮到她的美食～這間泰式料理也是經常經過。這天算好帶仙女去台中公園放風，然後就來吃。店內坪數不大。歐，不！是非常小！所以不太適合一大家子來。我覺得六人已經很勉強了！三四人就會...9 years ago
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228 Massacre redux - *Words do mean things* The language that people use to write about Taiwan is a touchy subject, and many people can't get it right. Or they *can*, but they ...9 years ago
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Grow With HubSpot New York - The marketing software company HubSpot sponsored an event at Irving Plaza in New York, NY on Thursday February 18th to provide an overview of their service...9 years ago
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Rice, Rice, Hillman & Pedersen - bluegrass Barefoot in grass or dirt. Sunshine or candlelight. Worries whisked away on a breeze of insight and acceptance. Troubles are nothing more than li...10 years ago
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NeuroPod: December 2015 - This month, coffee on the brain, manipulation mismatch, wired for language, and scanning for Christmas spirit.10 years ago
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Vintage Vape - [image: vintage vape] Whether you like baseball, chicken dinners, multilevel marketing, or *The Price is Right*, we offer several varietals of bespoke ju...10 years ago
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High Quality Adjustable Dumbbells in Affordable Price - Dear Guys and Gals Ready to have your own adjustable dumbbells but didn't know which one to buy? Yeah, I was there. In that exact same condition too few m...
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#932 黑鵯三玩 - John&Fish posted a photo: [image: #932 黑鵯三玩] Dear Flickr friends, you are very welcome to hear some of my piano composition . 紅嘴黑鵯．攝於台灣 新竹市 Black Bulbu...11 years ago
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Protests - I've been following protests in Taiwan with a great deal of sympathy for the students, admittedly lukewarm support for the details of their cause, and tre...11 years ago
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新網誌：2013 帶著小康妮遊東京 - [image: 其實這裡的楓葉已經開始落了，不過還是很漂亮～] 嗯，為了方便和阿湘一起完成這次的東京之旅遊記。 決定另外弄一個小網誌記錄這次的旅遊， 之後的遊記會放在：*2013 帶著小康妮遊東京*。12 years ago
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4th Annual Mother of All 9/11 Posts - If there is one thing in this life that I truly appreciate, it’s misguided self-expression. From bad crafting to terrible singing to hideous tattoos, I lov...12 years ago
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全麥麵包─台灣本土小麥的滋味 - 上週收到了用台灣本土小麥整粒麥子下去磨粉做成的全麥粉，收到那天，整個早上就亮了起來，是台灣土地孕育出來的麥子耶！一心一意想要嚐一嚐台灣小麥的香味，立刻去把冰箱裡的 sourdough culture 拿出來回溫，打算利用週末來烤麵包。 週五晚上孩子上完空手道回來，儘管時間很晚還是撐著做好了麵團。以下，是我用 ...
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A final farewell - Thank you for stopping by. Today, we powered down Google Reader. We understand you may not agree with this decision, but we hope you'll come to love thes...12 years ago
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An invitation to #ComedyFest (BYOB) - This week Twitter is turning into a comedy club, and you’ve got the best seats in the house, all for the price of free. We’re not saying that enjoying your...12 years ago
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[Photo] 日出合歡 - [image: IMG_8334.jpg] 這篇的時間點是在上阿里山拍櫻花的前一天。記得那週二還是三接到消息說週五要夜衝合歡，我因為已經排好週末要回嘉義去阿里山看櫻王了，顯然遊玩之心無法克制，最後選了累死人的行程，週五晚上衝合歡山，週六回台中後搭車回嘉義，然後週日上阿里山，晚上再搭車回台中...... [im...12 years ago
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Nikon Coolpix S800c Android camera reviewed -- my final review! - I've posted my *review of the Nikon Coolpix S800c*, a compact ultra zoom powered by the Android operating system.13 years ago
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Ma the Bumbler：馬英九是笨蛋、笨拙、憨慢的三聲無奈 - 且說第一天在yahoo看到媒體翻成笨蛋，我就覺得頗好笑，想說晚一些其它媒體應該有更好的翻譯吧。 結果這麼一路下來，全台媒體都把bumbler翻成笨蛋或笨拙，直到經濟學人還得出馬點出bumbler不是笨蛋的意思。 bumbler的解釋是：Someone who makes mistakes because of...
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Thank you - This is my last post for the Bad Astronomy Blog on Discover Magazine. As of today – Monday, November 12, 2012 – the blog has a new home at Slate magazine...13 years ago
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Featured Blog - "This Is Not England, Welcome to Taiwan!" - [image: Taiwanease] *This Is Not England, Welcome to Taiwan!* by Mark Henderson
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Today audio archive 2012/2013 - Running orders and audio from previous editions of the Today programme.13 years ago
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Huben Epitaph - Hushan's Yucing valley before it was dug out to make way for the highly controversial Hushan Dam. Yucing valley when the earth-movers got busy. Pleasantrie...
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Yushan Ventures cordially invites you to join us for Startup Labs Taiwan Demo Day on March 2nd, hosted by Google Taiwan at their Taipei 101 headquarters. Speakers: Yen-Shiang Shih, Minister for Economic Affairs (ROC) Lee-Feng Chien, Managing Director of G - Yushan Ventures cordially invites you to join us for Startup Labs Taiwan Demo Day on March 2nd, hosted by Google Taiwan at their Taipei 101 headquarters. ...13 years ago
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Collings and Herrin - Podcast 167 - No preamble. Podcast 167 comes exactly 21 weeks after Podcast 166, due to philosophical differences. Here we are again. Same attic, same settee, same hardw...14 years ago
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New address: www.bikingintaiwan.com - I will now start to post to bikingintaiwan.com. The site is up and running, but the design is non-existent. I've changed to WordPress and need to learn how...14 years ago
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Instapaper 4: Deciding to Read - [image: Instapaper 4 Icon] *Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone* The lede here is that my pal, Marco, has just released the stellar new 4.0 v...14 years ago
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Know Your Own Unique pangolins - Common pangolin (Manis javanica syn. Paramanis javanica) is the representative of the order Pholidota are still found in Southeast Asia. These animals ea...
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Great Expectations - Nina Robinson looks at the incidence of poverty in Hackney and how this is reflected in the lives of residents.14 years ago
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Rain cannot stop the LGBT Pride Parade - An estimated 30,000 people joined the 8th annual Taiwan LGBT Pride (台灣同志遊行) march in the centre of Taipei yesterday. Light rain did not stop the crowds fro...15 years ago
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Factories in China move inland - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-19/china-s-factories-turn-to-yangtze-river-to-escape-coastal-wage-inflation.html Mainly looking for cheaper labor. I s...15 years ago
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We've moved! - Our blog is now located at radio.seti.org/blog. Come visit, update your bookmarks, leave comments, listen to audio, and read the occasional companion piece...15 years ago
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Wrapped Goodies - The Taiwan food vendors make it so convenient. This one is all sun protected as well. Mustn't get any color on that skin... John Campbell-Couldn't Do Not...15 years ago
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Dead Hunt by Kenn Crawford - We have a special treat for you. A few months back, Kenn Crawford was looking for voices for his new podiobook, “Dead Hunt.” I agreed to do one of those vo...15 years ago
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WE ARE MOVING - Blogger.com is ending support for self-hosted blogs. This stinks, but it does give me an excuse to update the whole site, building instead on the more powe...15 years ago
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112609 - 黃鸝 - Set:http://www.flickr.com/photos/m106537/sets/72157622754698981/ [image: IMG_4519] [image: IMG_4518] [image: IMG_4513] [image: IMG_4533] 附上兩段一起錄到的聲音! http...16 years ago
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A Sunday Stroll in Maokong (貓空) - Here's something easy to test the blog waters again. A hike in the hills of Maokong, the tea growing region I am looking out at from my study window even ...16 years ago
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Farewell Shan Ding Lu - After two good years at Shanding Lu our time in Taiwan is now over. Our children are now more Taiwanese than Australian, my Perth work office have mostly f...16 years ago
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Let The Sunshine In - This is an outstanding video podcast of my favorite singer, Mike Doughty. He, along with his band, is playing live in/at a radio station. The first and the...17 years ago
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Construction Underway - Blog and template construction tonight. Kasparov in New York photos.17 years ago
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蘭嶼‧來自牛小強的瘋言風嶼 - 以下文章，來自蘭嶼牛小強在颱風夜裡的實況感受，簡直把我逗得樂翻啦~~ __________________________________________________ 歹～風來的時候，在蘭嶼不能： * 跳港 （廢話！） * 逆風撒尿 （會被吹回身上） * 在海邊吃雞排 （原來雞也會飛） * 浮潛 （會變衝...17 years ago
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Formosa Birding - 黃金港埠 - Enkhuizen, the Netherlands - Formosa Birding - 黃金港埠 - Enkhuizen, the Netherlands: "口藍黃相間的美麗景緻, 這年頭整"18 years ago
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「真‧科幻史」存在否？或，為何我們需要更多科幻史？ - 英國科幻學界超重量級人物艾德華‧詹姆斯（Edward James）說過：「想要了解科幻的人就必須強迫自己成為歷史學家。」[1] 由此可知，科幻史對於意欲真正認識科幻的人甚為重要。然而，儘管文本就在那裡，垂手可得；寫作與出版的歷史資料也都固定不變（只消有人把它挖出來），要完成一部各方都能認可的科幻史，似乎還是...
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