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This time next year, we'll bring back the Greek, Old Church Slavonic, three kinds of Swedish, Haitian, Icelandic, and Quenya....

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As I said earlier today on both Twitter and Facebook, I've done just about everything I can to get this...

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The door creaks softly as I push it wide. It's not complaining, really, just surprised That anyone would come. I,...

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Hello! Today, Patrick surprised no one more than himself by resurrecting the Making Light front page, archives, and CSS. He...

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We're working on bringing this place back. We miss the fluorosphere, and many of its regulars have emphatically said the...

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Someone elseweb crossed a couple of wires and mentioned Robert Frost when they meant Robert Burns. And I got that...

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Well, that took a couple of hours, but I think I got all of the spam from the past few...

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For Teresa and me, March 1 has long been the anniversary of the day we moved to New York City,...

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Blacow* speaks of four players: the Wargamer, the Power-Gamer, the Role-Player, and the Story-Teller. The Wargamer, what does he say?...

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Reading about all the people venturing that maybe it would be better to stop the social distancing and reopen the...

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So now the rest of the world is discovering virtual communities. I'm feeling very hipster; we were doing it before...

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I largely gave up political blogging after November 8, 2016, when it became obvious that I have no idea what...

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Just posted to Slate, by Isaac Butler: The Disappearance of John M. Ford. Key takeaway to Making Light readers who...

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I should be explaining what's been going on in the British Parliament, with links and explanations. Unfortunately I can't, because...

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Nobody reads this blog any more. But do read Kieran Healy.A fundamental lesson of Sociology is that, in the course...

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