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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Five to Read for Thursday, March 27

Items of interest from around the Blogosphere:

* Progressive Ruin presents...the End of Civilization

* Precocious Curmudgeon: Mergers and acquisitions

* all kinds of stuff: Don Martin - department store 2, The Genius of "Ignorant Humor" (via Heidi)

* Uncharted Territory: Gender and Reading Habits Part One: Let's Hear it for the Boys (via Chris)

* Polite Dissent: Colorful Diseases of the Golden Age: The Purple Plague
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Grading is on a curve, just like that high school chemistry class you hated...

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