User:Tlogmer
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4 September 2024 |
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My name's Ben Yates; I'm a technical writer, student, and keyboardist from Ann Arbor.
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So. I've been here since late 2003; I started the wikipedia articles Metrosexual and Hell, Michigan (and the wikibooks summary of Understanding Comics). Most of my stuff is elsewhere, though.
Nonfiction
How to appreciate jazz without really trying.
Sk8er Boi.
Understanding Comics.
File sharing is theft (read all the way through before you send me angry emails).
How to build a computer out of black holes.
Why is the sky blue?.
Does the Universe have granularity?.
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number).
Fiction
Now I ask you, is that any way for a cosmic body to Disintegrate?.
LifeTM.
Schrodinger killed his cat.
On the Division of Labor.
The Sticker Underground .
Private Eye.
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- ... that William Aitken, William J. Bain, J. Lister Holmes, John T. Jacobsen, and George W. Stoddard collaborated in the early 1940s to design America's first racially integrated public housing development?
- ... that the prison scenes in the film Plurality were shot in an archaeology museum?
- ... that the 1990 Serbian constitutional referendum also took place at six voting stations in Montenegro for voters who were on holiday?
- ... that Ana Sigüenza was the first woman to be the general secretary of a national trade union center in Spain?
- ... that during the 1929 Dollar Mountain Fire, 65 firefighters survived being surrounded by fire overnight by sheltering near a creek?
- ... that the lyrics of "Executioner's Tax (Swing of the Axe)" were inspired by beheadings in medieval Europe?
- ... that up to 16,000 crows regularly commute from around the Seattle metropolitan area to a wetland in Bothell, Washington?
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