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Hey ma.<br>
Remember last week at dinner when you guys asked me, "What's new?," and I stuttered, hesitated, and tried telling you about the Home Entertainment Show?

<I>Slate</I> writes about lolcats. ("Hard-hitting fluff," as Alan in Victoria says.) Follow the link on page 7 to Anil Dash's analysis of lolcat grammar.

"This is simply a resistor that has pretty much no resistance: in effect a bit of wire in a tiny box. It might sound like an absurd component, but they're quite common in modern circuits, because they can be used to bridge the gap between adjacent tracks on a circuit board with a standard-size component. I'd like to apologise both for knowing that and for sharing it with you."

As a work-at-home guy, I wonder about this all the time&mdash;especially when I visit Park Slope during the daytime. Doesn't anybody there have a job?

My mind is filled with audio components. I guess that's <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/he2007/051407leland/">what a show does to you</a>.

"The Chinese Exclusion Act and its subsequent extensions altered the legal definition of American citizenship far more than its original drafters could have foreseen."

The long, though not particularly hard, way. Good lessons&mdash;presented realistically for a change.

I probably shouldn't be linking to this, but it really made me laugh.

John Laurence spent a year embedded with the 101<SUP>st</SUP> Airborne. He respected and liked the guys he was reporting on, but what happened when his duty conflicted with the culture of loyalty?

Let's say you're flying on a plane for six hours. What musician, from the past or present, would you want to find in the seat next to you?