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		<title>Selection Bias</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Unabomber was a hipster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 19:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The personal effects of Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, will be sold via an online auction by the U.S. Marshals beginning May 18, 2011. U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell of the Eastern District of California ordered the sale in August 2010. Proceeds from the auction will be used to compensate Kaczynski’s victims. The Marshals have [...]]]></description>
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<blockquote><p>The personal effects of Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, will be sold via an online auction by the U.S. Marshals beginning May 18, 2011. U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell of the Eastern District of California ordered the sale in August 2010. Proceeds from the auction will be used to compensate Kaczynski’s victims.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Marshals have seen fit to upload the photos of his effects to a <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/usmarshals/sets/72157626579208135/with/5713093086/">Flickr album</a>, where you can peruse them to make your choice in advance.</p>
<p>What is most striking about the items is not how evil and terroristic they look, but how well they would fit into a Williamsburg loft apartment...</p>
<p>All he's missing is the fixie.<span id="more-970"></span></p>
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<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-988" title="Iconic look" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Iconic-look.jpg" alt="Iconic look" width="300" height="300" /><br />
<strong>The iconic look</strong></td>
<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-989" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Zac-Efron-failing-to-pull-it-off.jpg" alt="Zac Efron failing to pull it off" width="300" height="300" /><br />
<strong>Zac Efron failing to pull it off</strong></td>
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<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-998" title="Military surplus satchel" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Military-surplus-satchel.jpg" alt="Military surplus satchel" width="300" height="300" /><br />
<b>Military surplus satchel</b></td>
<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-999" title="Human surplus, satchel" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Human-surplus-satchel.jpg" alt="Human surplus, satchel" width="300" height="300" /><br />
<b>Human surplus, satchel</b></td>
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<td><img title="Corona typewriter" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Corona-typewriter.jpg" alt="Corona typewriter" width="300" height="300" /><br />
<strong>A classic instrument for castigating civilization</strong></td>
<td><img title="Typewriter Girl" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/typewriter-girl.jpg" alt="Typewriter girl" width="300" height="300" /><br />
<strong>Smoking because you can't write</strong></td>
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<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-985" title="Sunglasses" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Sunglasses.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /><br />
<strong>Terrorist aviators</strong></td>
<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-986" title="Shatterproof hipster shades" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Shatterproof-hipster-shades.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /><br />
<strong>Shatterproof shades for the clumsy scene kid</strong></td>
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<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1008" title="Unabomber notebooks" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Unabomber-notebooks.jpg" alt="The leftist is not typically the kind of person whose feelings of inferiority..." width="300" height="300" /><br />
<strong>"The leftist is not typically the kind of person..."</strong></td>
<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1009" title="Moleskine notebook" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Moleskine-notebook.jpeg" alt="Dear diary, today I stole my sister's new jeans, her old ones were too big..." width="300" height="300" /><br />
<strong>"Dear diary, I stole my sister's new jeans..."</strong></td>
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<td><img src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Family-Album1.jpeg" alt="" title="Family Album" width="300" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1029" /><br />
<strong>Taking family photo to phone-less forest shack</strong></td>
<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1011" title="Hipster Polaroids" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Hipster-Polaroids.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /><br />
<strong>Taking kooky photos with iPhone &#038; Hipstamatic</strong></td>
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<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1023" title="Backpack and Tote Bag" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Backpack-and-Tote-Bag.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /><br />
<strong>Contents: Nails, varnish, bomb</strong></td>
<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1024" title="Hipster backpack" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Hipster-backpack.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /><br />
<strong>Contents: Nail-varnish, bath-bomb</strong></td>
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<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1018" title="Arrows" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Arrows.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /><br />
<strong>Using bow and arrow to live off the land</strong></td>
<td><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1019" title="Indian PBR" src="http://johnl.org/files/2011/05/Indian-PBR.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /><br />
<strong>Dressing up as an Indian to get laid</strong></td>
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<p>One can almost imagine the post-post-modern textbooks of tomorrow's sociology courses:</p>
<blockquote style="font-family: times; font-size:150%;"><p>In their iconoclastic but limp-wristed efforts to escape mainstream culture, the hipsters of the early 2000s recapitulated the imagery and self-image of the "wild man" of the post-war period, Theodore Kaczynski, the "Unabomber".</p>
<p>As Williamsburg became overpopulated and the post-industrial ("screamo") industry took hold, many young rich Americans abandoned their cars and took to the use of bikes without gears, even <em>sans</em> free-wheel.</p>
<p>These "fixie" bikes sped them on a one-way trip to an ironic terrorist campaign, operating out of thousands of identikit forest shacks. Sitting in small groups, crafting elaborately anachronistic French-nail-bombs, they subsisted entirely on Pabst Blue Ribbon and the nutrients emanating from each other's egos.</p>
<p>When the last worldly effects of the first hipster king came on the market, the houses of couture rushed to snap them up. American Apparel out-bid Urban Outfitters to claim the exclusive rights to produce UNABOM aviator sunglasses.</p>
<p>Eventually, the bottom fell out of the market for Kaczynski reproductions and several chain-stores were left with staggeringly large stockpiles of imitation hiking boots and plastic detonators.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>A spotter&#8217;s guide to distinguishing Arial and Helvetica</title>
		<link>http://johnl.org/2009/10/04/a-spotters-guide-to-distinguishing-arial-and-helvetica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 18:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This image was doing the rounds a week or so ago. I thought I'd re-publish it here for anyone who hasn't seen it. Edit: Here's the source, thanks to Inky!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This image was doing the rounds a week or so ago. I thought I'd re-publish it here for anyone who hasn't seen it.<br />
<a href="http://johnl.org/files/2009/10/JvVkK.png"><img src="http://johnl.org/files/2009/10/JvVkK.png" alt="Arial &amp; Helvetica" title="Arial &amp; Helvetica" width="500" height="647" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-294" /></a></p>
<p><b>Edit:</b> Here's the <a href="http://ragbag.tumblr.com/post/187708731/arial-helvetica-on-friday-i-hosted-a-screening">source</a>, thanks to <a href="http://boxofjunk.ws/">Inky</a>!</p>
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