Didn’t want to mention it but there is the rumour that @gadgetgirl is secretly a stick figure.
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Wouldn’t that make it easier to buy clothes!
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The term ‘holistic’ refers to my conviction that what we are concerned with here is the fundamental interconnectedness of all things. – Dirk Gently
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Step on a crack…
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Woah.
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It’s been known for a long time that leaf-cutter ants cultivate fungi for food. A story I had missed, though, is that there are also ants that grow them as blinds for ambushing prey.
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This is what it looks like now:
And this is the Roundhouse addition – originally built in the 1880s by Daniel Burnham – which has just finished an exhibition but is now closed for the winter because it still doesn’t have heating:
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I love the DuSable Museum! It’s one of my favorite Chicago museums, along with the Historical Society.
If anyone’s in Chicago and only has time to see one museum, I recommend foregoing the Field Museum and coming here instead.
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http://languagehat.com/whatsit/#comment-2795719
It is said that a mathematical paper by a non-English-native author arrived at the journal editor’s desk with a number of instances of stricken mass distribution, a hitherto unknown term. Puzzled, the editor contacted the author, who drew his attention to a sentence in one of the referee’s reports: “The term ‘generalized mass distribution’ is no longer used; the word ‘generalized’ should be stricken.”
Alas, the story is not quite true, for Dr. Google reveals that the paper was published with five instances of stricken still in it.
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That’s great 
See also dawizard:
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Some truly bizzare comments below the line-- crystaline trees, growing on the core, into the mantle?
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Cool! Just like in Minecraft!
(sorry)
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