4. January 2008 by Ben.

From craigslist: “Looking for an indvidual (sic) edit DVD and make the (sic) G rated. My kids are small and thier (sic) are alot (sic) of great movies out but do not want them to view the violence or inappropiate (sic) material”

(Yeah, it’s an overuse of “sic,” but you can’t say it’s undeserved.)

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4. January 2008 by Ben.

In Episode 110: Mapping of This American Life there’s an act that leads with a discussion of the background noise we hear all the time from appliances at home and in the office – noise that, like all sound, has a particular pitch.

“For some reason I had been thinking about why it is that we seem, almost universally,  to assume that a minor chord is sad and a major chord is happy.  If a minor third is just somehow inherently sad, then if I were sitting in an office having a minor third played at me all day long, then it’s indeed possible that I could be made sad by just sitting in my office.”

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