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“She Thinks I Still Care” Teddy Thompson
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The Dissenter
“The last Supreme Court term, which ended in June, was the stormiest in recent memory, with more 5-to-4 decisions split along ideological lines than at any time in the court’s history. In a series of controversial cases about abortion, racial integration in schools, faith-based programs and the death penalty, the court’s four more conservative [...]

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Justices Begin Work on a Polarizing New Docket
” The Supreme Court has so many polarizing cases on the docket for its new term that the deep ideological divisions that characterized the last term are all but certain to remain on display after justices reconvene on Monday.
The conservative majority under Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. [...]

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She’s Not Anybody’s Backup Act
“There is an elephant in the room at the Brooklyn headquarters of Daptone Records — a skinny, British elephant with an enormous beehive hairdo and a knack for getting her picture in the tabloids…”
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Rainbows are the Shadows of a Presence So Divine
1 Ex Models - The Password Is Pelican
2 Pelican - Lost In the Headlights
3 Mission of Burma - Secrets
4 A Place To Bury Strangers - Another Step Away
5 The Mars Volta - Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of)
6 Porcupine Tree - The Creator Has a Mastertape
7 Litmus - Psychic [...]

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Downgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.0.2: With Caveats
And, for those left with a dead, hacked iPhone after upgrading. Spoiler alert! The caveat is that you still will not be able to use your device as a phone.
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iPhone 1.1.1 full rundown
Higlights some undocumented features of the upgrade including the ability to change your voicemail password. Learn something new every minute.
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At Play in the Fields of the Mind: 1968 - 1986
“Colfax, California, 1935. Who in that NoCal hamlet would’ve guessed that a major influence on modern music had just been christened? Unlike religious icons, angels don’t appear when artists leave the womb and commence their slog through the muck of the world, but that’s where [...]

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