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Analog Nation presents the Twenty Best Lists of 2009:
1. Top 10 Reality Show Knife-Fights of 2009 — Access Hollywood
2. Top 10 2009 Corporate Decisions That Came Close to Not Losing Money — BusinessWeek
3. Top 8 2009 Media Trends Your 15-Year-Old Doesn’t Have to Explain to You — TechCrunch
4. Top 2 American Automobiles of 2009 — [...]

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Some of you may have heard that the Internet recently marked its fortieth anniversary. Technically this is true — the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANet) established the first link between distant computers in late 1969. It’s kind of like saying that television is sixty-five million years old because that’s when the dinosaurs were wiped [...]

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On Monday, December 1st, the Federal Trade Commission’s new guidelines on endorsement transparency go into effect. This is the first time the FTC has updated these rules in nearly thirty years, which means that the rules A) are old enough to have been disappointed by the “Star Wars” prequels, and B) probably love zombies. The [...]

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So here’s a weird sentence: I’m in a horror movie and we’re doing a raffle.
Here are some other weird sentences:

• I have a wheel barrow and these waffles are delicious.
• My house is on fire and your uncle called.
• The Dutch have a monarchy and some plastic is not recyclable.
• Several dishes are chipped and [...]

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We need to talk about the undead for a second, because they’re getting to be kind of a problem.
It would be one thing if they were openly invading, because then at least we could bust out some chainsaws and makeshift flamethrowers. Shit could, as they say, get real. Sadly, there is no such invasion. [...]

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Let me tell you about the time I died.
Not actual death, of course. This isn’t a Spoon River tale from beyond the grave, and it’s not a Nikki Sixx “I was clinically dead for two minutes, man” sort of thing. No, this is just a heart-warming tale of friendship run amok that happens to involve [...]

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