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Last year, in lieu of making New Year’s resolutions, I made a series of resolutions on behalf of the world in general. As January 1st bears down upon us once again, I have taken the liberty of crafting some more. You get to relax and stop trying to think up a good resolution, I get [...]

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Analog Nation is pleased to present our predictions for the first year of the second decade of the third millennium — and beyond.
• Financial markets in Europe will grind to a halt due to a toothpaste shortage in Finland.
The world economy will once again teeter on disaster’s edge.
• Tectonic activity will cause major geological changes [...]

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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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In honor of Independence Day, we present an all-American edition of “Own Words.”
“It is wholly fitting that we should celebrate July 4th, 1776. It is the day when the rest of the world’s nations dropped their playthings and said, ‘Uh-oh, Dad’s home.’”
-George S. Patton, 1943
“America is a train. A train that steams mightily along its [...]

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Once upon a time, I was the kind of person who made New Year’s resolutions.
They were always something vague, like “exercise more,” though I suppose “exercise at all” would have been sufficient. There was never any record of them, even in private. No journal, no notes. No written proof to demonstrate just how much [...]

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Merry Christmas, all you hall-deckers out there.
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