An insightful post by Tim Bray -- to the effect that “Twitter [is] a venture-funded startup with no business model, and these are tough times. They might make it and they might get rich, but it would be totally unsurprising if, 24 months from now, Twitter were gone, or a zombie site, or its BigCo...

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Like yesterday’s pillow fight, my response is, “yes, who hasn’t?”. On second thoughts I don’t know how many people do hitch hike these days. Way too dangerous, everyone seems to think. And I cannot remember the last time I actually saw someone hitching.

But we used to do it all the time, occasion...

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Exhibit A: In the UK, atheists weasel with “probably”. I don’t know why. Frankly, I don’t much care, because for me it is a done deal.

That picture is a mockup, but there's video at the Telegraph that looks real enough to me.¹

Exhibit B: In Italy,² non c'e dubbio.

Only two buses, st...

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Of course. Who hasn’t? But I cannot remember a specific fight. And until this very moment -- searching Flickr for a picture -- I had no idea that big public pillow fights took place, at least in San Francisco and Paris. I suppose it is all good clean fun, except for the feathers. I did a little b...

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Exhibit A, from The Origin of Species, by C.R. Darwin, 1st edition, 1859, pp73-4:

I am tempted to give one more instance showing how plants and animals, most remote in the scale of nature, are bound together by a web of complex relations. ... The number of humble-bees in any district depends...

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