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Adam is a teacher, historian, retail anthropologist, and man about town.

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  1. Obama on Global Warming

    http://idly.org/2008/11/05/obama-on-global-warming/

    I love this quote from Newsweek. So true: When he was preparing for them during the Democratic primaries, Obama was recorded saying, “I don’t consider this to be a good format for me, which makes me more cautious. …

    27 days ago
  2. Election Outcome for Dummies

    http://idly.org/2008/11/04/election-outcome-for-dummies/
    27 days ago
  3. Election Junkies

    http://idly.org/2008/11/04/election-junkies/

    27 days ago
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    Cover of ‘The Stranger,’ Seattle’s alt-weekly,...

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    Adam

    14 days ago in solecist.net · Authority: 7
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    WordPress Plugin: Textile Footnote Tweak

    http://gobecky.net/2008/11/01/textile-footnote-tweak/

    The Problem The markup filter I use for WordPress, Adam Gessaman's implementation of Textile 2 has footnote behavior that I didn't like. When you use Textile to create a footnote, the resulting link goes to #fn1 or #fn2 or whatever. If you're displaying a page that happens to have multiple posts with footnotes, the browser gets confused, because

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    Hank Hill's exclamation after hearing from the train conductor the rules of the train on a disco murder mystery ride. "This is gonna work", he happily declared. Episode CABE10, titled ""Strangeness On a Train", which aired on April 27th, according to Wikipedia.

    http://justagwailo.com/2008/08/17/8892

    Accordion Guy Aesthetic Poetic Agency Time Carnets de La Grange Good Fishies Management by Baseball PhotoDude.com SkyTrain Security Unconference countably infinite dive into mark gabyu idly.org katrín.is kottke.org pndr unadorned.org vanmega volatile.org

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    ee-hah how-nah List

    http://www.opanoid.com/index.php?view=20081031100944

    If you are fed up of the coverage of the US election, then this might be your answer. (via b3ta.com's image challenge). Another election theme, and a risky idea, and why the hell is Borat on this? Just for those that can't read things at work, 7 ways to access blocked websites. Their is a wiki for most things nowadays, I had to check this just in case I was on it, Dickipedia.org. I do believe this webpage and article was created just for me :) Pointless questions answered

    32 days ago in Opanoid by schlotts · Authority: 1
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    The Green House Effect | Share. Learn. Shop. Explore. Your world in green.

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    Palin Forced Top Wasilla Employees To Resign As Loyalty Test. As Mayor of Wasilla in 1998, “asked all of the city’s top managers to resign in order to test their loyalty to her administration.”[Daily Sitka Sentenial, 10/28/06] Palin Fired Police Chief For Not Fully Supporting Her. After becoming Mayor of Wasilla, Palin fired the city’s police chief, Irl Stambaugh, writing, “I do not feel I have your full support in my efforts to govern the city of Wasilla. Therefore I

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    EcoGreenius: Trees can live without man, but man can’t live without trees.

    http://www.ecogreenius.com

    Palin Forced Top Wasilla Employees To Resign As Loyalty Test. As Mayor of Wasilla in 1998, “asked all of the city’s top managers to resign in order to test their loyalty to her administration.”[Daily Sitka Sentenial, 10/28/06] Palin Fired Police Chief For Not Fully Supporting Her. After becoming Mayor of Wasilla, Palin fired the city’s police chief, Irl Stambaugh, writing, “I do not feel I have your full support in my efforts to govern the city of Wasilla. Therefore I

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    The Sarah Palin Chronicles: Show Us Your Ethics, Part Three

    http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/22/the-sarah-palin-chroni...

    Palin Forced Top Wasilla Employees To Resign As Loyalty Test. As Mayor of Wasilla in 1998, “asked all of the city’s top managers to resign in order to test their loyalty to her administration.”[Daily Sitka Sentenial, 10/28/06] Palin Fired Police Chief For Not Fully Supporting Her. After becoming Mayor of Wasilla, Palin fired the city’s police chief, Irl Stambaugh, writing, “I do not feel I have your full support in my efforts to govern the city of Wasilla. Therefore I

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    Northern Exposure

    http://www.ihatewhatyoujustsaid.com/2008/09/10/northern-expo...

    Do you remember that episode of Northern Exposure when the newly elected mayor/hockey mom orchestrated a bizarre psychodrama of submission and domination where all the town’s officers had to resign their jobs to prove their loyalty to her? That was awesome. Joel Fleishman went completely meshugeh. And I’ll never forget that philosophical conversation Chris the DJ and

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    Northern Exposure

    http://www.ihatewhatyoujustsaid.com/2008/09/10/northern-expo...

    Do you remember that episode of Northern Exposure when the newly elected mayor/hockey mom orchestrated a bizarre psychodrama of submission and domination where all the town’s officers had to resign their jobs to prove their loyalty to her? That was awesome. Joel Fleishman was really going totally meshugeh. And I’ll never forget that philosophical conversation Chris the

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    vegan fish tacos

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    and implement the best policies for their constituency. In some ways, this has been the greatest failing of the Bush Administration. So what has Sarah Palin done to offend this balance? Let’s start first with her time as Mayor of Wasilla. Loyalty tests! Mayor Palin ran a loyalty test to the carryovers from the previous mayor. Palin wrote in the letter: ”I do not feel I have your full support in my efforts to govern the city of Wasilla. Therefore I intend to terminate your employment …” Also of note,

    83 days ago in vegan fish tacos · Authority: 12

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