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Email Quotes and Inclusion Conventions

Email Quotes and Inclusion Conventions

Early mail and netnews readers had no facility for including messages this way, so people had to paste in copy manually. BSD Mail(1) was the first message agent to support inclusion, and early Usenetters emulated its style. But the TAB character tended ...

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Vans Syndicate x Slam City Skates

The 23rd release from Vans Syndicate is a collaboration with Slam City Skates. We received some pairs a little ahead of their release. This meant there was time for a bit of road testing, this edit is the result of a few days spent cruising around the City ...

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A beautiful Flickr gallery by Daniel Zedda

Ethnic. Spicy. Oriental, esp. Chinese and most esp. Szechuan, Hunan, and Mandarin (hackers consider Cantonese vaguely déclassé). Hackers prefer the exotic; for example, the Japanese-food fans among them will eat with gusto such delicacies as fugu (poisonous pufferfish) and whale. Thai food has experienced flurries of ...

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A quote by Andrew Binstock

The net effect shows that the forces of capitalism are much like those of evolution: the fittest survive.

Andrew Binstock, 1994

Lord Huron - The Stranger, out now on Soundcloud

Time To Run is the new debut EP from rising LA pop experimentalists Lord Huron, to be released 8 October through Play It Again Sam. A joyous collision of Appalachian percussion, calypso guitars and infectious Western melodies, it's the sound of a band with ...

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Email Quotes and Inclusion Conventions

Sussman attains enlightenment

This profile reflects detailed comments on an earlier ‘trial balloon’ version from about a hundred Usenet respondents. Where comparatives arevt used, the implicit ‘other’ is a randomly selected segment of the non-hacker population of thevt same size as ...

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Email Quotes and Inclusion Conventions

Physical Activity and Sports

Some hobbies are widely shared and recognized as going with the culture: science fiction, music, medievalism (in the active form practiced by the Society for Creative Anachronism and similar organizations), chess, go, backgammon, wargames, and ...

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