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Roborant:
rob"o*rant, n. A roborant drug; a restorative or tonic.
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Category: Pop Culture
Popular culture is often depressing and debased, but you can't ignore it.
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Eeyore's Birthday Party
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Eeyore's birthday party: all the freedom you can shake a stick at
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Food as Vanity
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Changing the world is hard. You don't do it by going shopping.
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"Arch Oboler's Plays"
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We salute the classic radio work of Arch Oboler.
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Predictions for 2008
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My predictions for 2008, such as they are.
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Old Time Radio Shows
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Three Old Time Radio shows that are worth listening to today
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Navel Gazing
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What essays attract hits here? Well, it's an amazingly mixed bag.
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Apple's iPhone
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My predicitons about the Apple iPhone.
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The Riches of Solomon
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Even average people in the US are richer than King Soloman himself. Do we appreciate it? And what debts do we owe to it?
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The Men From the Ministry
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The Men From the Ministry was a radio program from the BBC in the 1960s and 1970s. It was very funny and a lot of fun.
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Bygone Days
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An article from the 1955 New Yorker can tell us a lot about what's wrong with our media and politics today.
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Dragnet Radio Show
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Dragnet was some of the best of the Golden Age of radio.
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Push Button Cooking
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In the 1950's, GE promised us a push-button future. To give us an example of that world, they advertised a push-botton oven. After nearly sixty years, my grandmother still has one of these and I've photographed it.
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Johnnie's Place
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Johnnie's Place was a fun place to hang out in the 1930's.
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Kid Stuff
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Being a kid was great in the 1960's, we had more freedom and fun than any kid has now.
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Old Media, New Home
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If you don't like to listen to music while driving, what else is left?
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Life Magazine, 1964, Part IV
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One more installment of the Life Magazine, 1964 series.
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Life Magazine, 1964, Part II
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Part two in a series based on a copy of Life Magazine from 1964.
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Life Magazine, 1964
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Life Magazine shows us just what was going on back in 1964.
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Life Magazine, 1964, Part V
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One more installment of the Life Magazine, 1964 series.
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Life Magazine, 1964, Part III
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Part three in the series about evens of 1964 as portrayed in Life Magazine.
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Toni Lee Shelley
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You never know what's going to drive traffic your way...
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Apple News
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I've been programming Apple computers for over 20 years and, in that time, not a single journalist has ever really understood Apple, Inc.
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Generation of Vipers
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Wylie spits in America's eye, but then turns on a dime.
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Super Hero
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Adventures of Superman: where are they now?
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George Adamski
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George Adamski was a remarkable man who laid the groundwork for generations of UFO nuts to come.
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Hammett, Kurosawa and Leone: a complicated tale
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Hammet wrote the quintessential story of the hard boiled detective sent in to clean up a corrupt town. Kurosawa made it into a samaurai movie. Leone then made it into a cowboy movie. The litigation continues.
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The 1960's: you can have them
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These days, the 1960's are remembered with nostalgia and fondness. If you really look back, however, you see that it wasn't really a fun decade.
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Overcome the Small to Make it Big
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Star Parker has some great ideas about the roots of poverty.
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Members of the class Human
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PETA has started a new campaign that is an attempt to make people quit eating fish because they are "intelligent animals with long-term memories who can use tools and even build structures".
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