Blotto, a column [Blotto]

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CRAFTING is the sort of activity that anyone thinks they can do until they do it. We may have a genetic propensity for making tools, but it is easier to make another meat human than to whittle one from wood. CRAFT IN AMERICA is a 3-part television series from PBS, which is like NPR but for television and without Garrison Keillor's wattle. I HAVE NOT WATCHED IT as I find all media to be distasteful.
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DARKEST AMAZON WISH LISTS may cause you EMOTIONAL TERROR! Case in point: Dateline: My porch, yesterday morning. I awoke to discover an unanticipated package! Inside was a SPINNING AMBER AMULET, suspended in a halo of silver. I was baffled, as this bauble was clearly meant to hover over a woman's bosom! Of which I possess something akin but am absent any desire to draw attention towards!
Inside, in a TINY MECHANICAL SCRIPT, a message printed from my estranged mother, who had abandoned me as a child! It was then I was possessed of a feeling antipodal to wonder: HEARTBREAK. For the amulet had been added by mine own hand...as a gift for the ladyfriend from whom I have so recently been estranged!
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ANOTHER NETBOOK BOOM, asks ZDNet's Larry Dignan, as fueled by Intel's Atom overhaul? I HAVE AN ANSWER: NO. When you are talking about shitbird performance then 20% more bird is still shitbird.
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SLIGHT TONAL DISCREPANCIES may matter, just as certain keys seem "sadder" than others (HELLO D MINOR) but I'd still argue the interval is the dominant emotional factor in music, ignoring, of course, rhythm.
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WILD TIGER EATEN by Chinese villagers. It was the last known wild tiger in China. What a world!
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IMAGINE APPLE TV NOT SUCKING but instead being a gateway a subscription television model that would rival cable. I would consider this less for my HDTV content, but for having an easy, seamless sync down to my iPhone every morning. (Yes, I could AUTOMATE it, but I have not.)
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WHAT A NICE DOODLE has sprung from the instrument of MR. C86 | MATT LYON, nearly one year past. The artist has named the doodle THE CHIPPER WIDGET.
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