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  • Vodka Illusions

    Bill Deys recently wrote about a Business Week article stating that, in a blind taste test, all vodkas taste pretty much the same. It was an informal test with a writer and a few friends. Without statistical analysis, it’s impossible to tell if the friends were guessing at an above-chance level or not (there was…

  • Life After Death

    I’m not high or anything, but think about this. I’m not a religious person, but I have been known to use the word “soul.” Sometimes it’s in a sarcastic way, but other times it’s a metaphor for identity; a quick way of summing up the core of what makes a person a person in one…

  • Once You Touch It, You Can't Keep Your Hands Off It

    Just moments after I wrote yesterday’s post, friends showed up with video games and a whole bunch of SNACKS. It was wonderful. If you have a Wii, and I know many of you do, then you owe it to yourself to try this game called Boom Blox. It doesn’t sound very awesome when you describe…

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