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this week on the avant guardian\/\/forgetting

August 30, 2010
By andrew carebear
this week on the avant guardian\/\/forgetting

Things fall out of my head all of the time.  Where I put the keys.  Where I put my wallet.  A phone number.  The name of a film.  I try to look out for a future version of myself who will eventually forget something, and I make lots of lists.  This is the list...
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this week on the avant guardian\/\/nightmares!

August 23, 2010
By shu!
this week on the avant guardian\/\/nightmares!

This is from a sketchbook about a nightmare. The water didn’t stop forever and I couldn’t take a bath.
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this week on the avant guardian\/\/hiccups

August 16, 2010
By walter crunkite
this week on the avant guardian\/\/hiccups

“I have the hiccups. I wonder if I might have another drink.” - James Stewart in The Philadelphia Story So I just learned this — a hiccup is also known as a hiccough or, in medicine, as a synchronous diaphragmatic flutter (SDF). Hiccups are interesting, because it’s not really known what purpose they serve;...
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this week on the avant guardian\/\/hats

August 9, 2010
By andy reynolds
this week on the avant guardian\/\/hats

Ever since the invention of angels, wearing things on one’s head has been a solid way of defining who one is in the overall scheme of things. Angels were invented, of course, by the Greek God Apollo, soon after Zeus and the other Olympians created the idea of a single “God” so that they...
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this week on the avant guardian\/\/010011010 codes

August 2, 2010
By paul boshears
this week on the avant guardian\/\/010011010 codes

Cryptography is the art of hiding information; before the modern era this was synonymous with encryption, the rendering of information from a legible state to an unreadable one. With the recent exposing of a secret Russian spy ring in the U.S. (still using, it seems, Rocky & Bullwinkle techniques) there has been a fresh...
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this week on the avant guardian\/\/bridges

July 26, 2010
By ari gratch
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Bridges to nowhere Bridges to somewhere Bridge festivals Bridge games Ruby Bridges Jeff Bridges Big bridges Old bridges Small bridges New bridges Image Credit: Wikimedia
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this week on the avant guardian\/\/in my secret life

July 19, 2010
By kathryn fidler
this week on the avant guardian\/\/in my secret life

In My Secret Life I saw you this morning. You were moving so fast. Can’t seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much. There’s no one in sight. And we’re still making love In My Secret Life. I smile when I’m angry. I cheat and I lie. I...
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this week on the avant guardian\/\/to listen with one ear to each summer sound

July 12, 2010
By rachel simhon
486px-Henry_David_Thoreau

Friends — They are like air bubbles on water, hastening to flow together. History tells of Orestes and Pylades, Damon and Pythias, but why should not we put to shame those old reserved worthies by a community of such? Constantly, as it were through a remote skylight, I have glimpses of a serene friendship-land,...
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this week on the avant guardian \/\/ blockbuster

July 5, 2010
By tyler re
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The top twenty-five highest grossing movies worldwide. Happy Summer Studio Franchise/Tentpole/Blockbuster Movie Season! 1 Avatar $2,730,182,903 2 Titanic $1,843,201,268 3 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King $1,119,110,941 4 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest $1,066,179,725 5 Alice in Wonderland $1,021,778,566 6 The Dark Knight $1,001,921,825 7 Harry Potter and...
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