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I got from this:
“A Method for Measuring the Air Permeabilities of Asphalt Concrete Pavements”, by W. H. Ellis and R. S. Schmidt, ASTM Special Technical Publication No. 294, p. 85, 1960″
to this:
“Papers on road and paving materials (bituminous) — 1960 Anon Source: American Society for Testing and Materials — Special Technical Publications, 294, Apr, [...]

1). I never expected going to the dentist to be exciting. But there you have it: I got my teeth cleaned this afternoon, and I’m quite happy. A, it badly needed to be done; B, a couple small cavities were caught and can now be filled; C, the lovely dentist filed down a chip in [...]

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I just got back from seeing Children of Men, the Alfonso Cuaron film based on a novel by P.D. James. It is extraordinary, and very much worth watching. It reminded me a bit of Twelve Monkeys, but darker, truer and more unrelenting.
It is a very dark movie, because it gets to the heart of [...]

I suppose it tells you a great deal about me that I was hoping that Croquet was actually about, you know, croquet; though what it actually wants to be about is pretty cool too. (An explanation follows in the last link).
I found the link from a much more interesting post by Ethan Zuckerman [...]

This year’s topic is a simple one: tell us, and your readers, why you’re pro-choice.
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Because if there were no choice in this country to have an abortion, no option to go to a clinic and have a perfectly nice (and in this era, as in many others, courageous) doctor and cadre of nurses take [...]

This presidential election season, fer cryin’ out loud, will the strong candidates team up instead of running against each other?
– signed, all the rest of the voters who don’t belong to your special fan club