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2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
#15yrsago Spammer: I’ll buy MySpace profiles with more than 20k contacts http://www.brooklynskiclub.com/2006/06/easy-money-sell-your-friends.html
#15yrsago Psychology of bad probability estimation: why lottos and terrorists matter https://web.archive.org/web/20060627174933/http://server1.sxsw.com/2006/coverage/SXSW06.INT.20060311.DanielGilbert.mp3
#10yrsago What Lies Beneath the Clock Tower: steampunk choose-your-own-adventure https://memex.craphound.com/2011/06/17/what-lies-beneath-the-clock-tower-steampunk-choose-your-own-adventure/
#10yrsago Work song of Ghanian postal workers cancelling stamps https://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2005/12/work_song_from_.html
#5yrsago Hong Kong bookseller: I was forced to confess on China TV https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-china-36552672
#5yrsago Wisconsin Congresswoman: mandatory drug tests for anyone claiming $150K in itemized tax-deductions https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/16/gwen-moore-drug-test-rich-for-tax-deductions
#5yrsago $40,000/year private school sues school for low-income kids for $2M https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/06/16/can-school-lay-claim-commonwealth-its-name-back-bay-institution-believes-can/WHwiaaPEn04cIY6uxXjoiO/story.html