digital emunction » Brian T. Abrams http://www.digitalemunction.com A website dedicated to literature, politics, life, and anything else worth talking about. Founded in 2006 by Robert P. Baird Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:55:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ratting Day: Down the Wikipedia Rabbit Hole

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Guardian Weekly:

8 June 2010

Mauritania tries to close its borders: Spate of kidnappings…

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]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/03/30/two-views-god-mathematics/ The Coming Bull Market in Ideas For my first post here on DE (where I hope to focus on ideas, innovations, and inventions), I thought it might be fitting to link over to a piece I wrote for Slate’s The Big Money that was published earlier…

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