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Keeping up with the latest ephemeral internet memes is not only tedious and senseless, it’s time consuming. Let wikipedia do the work by keeping current with their list of “internet memes”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_internet_phenomena, leaving you ample free time to follow more worthy tedious, senseless and time consuming pursuits. See you there.

In addition to catching up on some algorithm analysis, I’ve also been spending a good chunk of time this election evening following political threads, mostly focusing on this “mefi thread”:http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/56114 for my refresh action.
The biggest nailbiter race, and the one in which I have the most emotional investment, however superificial, is the Virginia race [...]

A graphic novel envisioning an even greater dystopian clusterfsck in Mess-o-potamia.

Keith Olberman tells it like it is. Absofsckinglutely hitting the nail on the motherfscking head.

Excellent forest for the trees essay on the American state of fear.

A nice followup from the CSM on “Jill Carroll”:http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/carroll/index.html. I have nothing but respect and admiration for reporters who willingly go into harm’s way (and by all accounts, Iraq will probably go down as one of the most dangerous wars for reporters in a generation) and try to bring home unfettered, unfiltered information to [...]

Anyone who believes we successfully _won_ the war in Afghanistan needs a “serious reality check”:http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-11-16-afghan-insurgents-inside_x.htm:
The adversary faced this year by the Desert Eagles and other American units fighting in Afghanistan has defied military predictions that the Taliban and al-Qaeda were fading.
“It’s absolutely true that the insurgency has become more effective and the insurgency has [...]