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It’s revving up! It’s revving up! Now let’s see if we get anywhere. Is revolution the solution, or will it just go around again?



January February March
1 in the present Egypt civil war
2 bound and gagged first step hadron nation
3 worse every year devices fixed-point theorem
4 tragically understood value judgements refugees
5 subtlety best effort suppress dissent
6 neutral cell government-in-a-box phase transition
7 continuous improvement catastrophe theory strong opinion
8 raise my standards stability 1 those ancestors
9 bribery stability 2 indirect fire
10 structuralism stability 3 blind faith
11 polarization Berlusconi criminal ruler
12 polarization 2 eternal vigilance 1 Japan earthquake
13 polarization 3 eternal vigilance 2 puny Earthlings
14 apart not the end crumbling infrastructure
15 opposite attitudes out of whack nuclear trouble
16 gratefulness economics nuclear trouble 2
17 Tunisia UFO nuclear trouble 3
18 revolutions rocket science nuclear trouble 4
19 refreezing society dominoes falling before dishonor
20 error budget contagion important language
21 scapegoats computer security 1 European air bases
22 uncharitable computer security 2 actions of war
23 Tunisia revisited sign of madness news terminology
24 know everything computer security 3 provisional verdict
25 magazine pluralism nuclear poisons
26 defines you more study stabilizing attitude
27 North Korea for my flaws confusing
28 entertainment industry 21st century Monday precise culture
29 1848 demanding culture
30 FBI and Anonymous pearl
31 Anonymous 2 wingnuts get loose
April May June
1 web comics postdestined project management
2 persistence positive power prevention and cure
3 military intervention Obama vs. Osama cell phones
4 celebration war to-do list 1
5 INDISPENSABLE mechanical problems to-do list 2
6 trust quiz hate me think deeply
7 black swan account information absolutism
8 on message into your worldview what's important 1
9 software testing PET what's important 2
10 god of grammar no generalists what's important 3
11 universal peace significant result training
12 don't repeat nothing makes sense credulity
13 poetry slam nonsymbolic illogic well-rounded
14 forgetting experience contention good taste
15 eliminate wasteful spending No Admissions up and down
16 lunch before dishonor stone wall contemporary
17 capital requirements elephant in the room gnome-user-guide
18 length of ten being a beginner tradecraft
19 teach the controversy Ottawa Treaty meme fitness
20 zero-proof knowledge day breaks never died
21 a little sharper job security Corporate Bland 1
22 careful study end of the world Corporate Bland 2
23 flush your DNA goodness Corporate Bland 3
24 birthdays end of the world 2 love of danger
25 election problems quiz stakeholder equilibrium arguments
26 success nuclear danger don't get it
27 used to first lifetime U.S. election 2012
28 while the iron is hot Marmite political power
29 rare giant tsunami diplomat invisibility
30 rare skyfall futurism harder
31 amnesia
July August September
1 Convention on Disarmament probably wrong prohibit childbirth
2 idiocy debt deal dogfood
3 temporary self-importance as smart as I think
4 budget bomb progress babies are ugly
5 too late stereotypes daycare
6 East of times dunce dunce steal innocence
7 good enough political stalemate abandon recklessness
8 small weaknesses lunatic fringe without saying
9 immorality properly organized Great Depression 1
10 News of the World bounded in a cosmos Great Depression 2
11 casualty of peace soundness dumb question
12 Rupert Murdoch iceberg towing Chinese dream
13 nudist plotting violence carbohydrates
14 satire last words omniscient narrator
15 hearsay too short quiz atomic operations
16 duplication of effort treachery board of managers
17 selling out brake rools unthinkable
18 truth quiz new starts waiting on hold
19 a good day for poisonous multiplier JDAM decoded
20 like an ass honk if you love moderation
21 confidence interval Republican soundbites near this planet
22 inventor of summer vision and insight road safety 1
23 tweeds political divisiveness road safety 2
24 collateral damage decent and good good point
25 full faith and credit east coast quake too good
26 light years of lead downpour of ideas endpoints
27 practical joke labyrinthine energy fire engine
28 idealpolitik long for the past atom haiku
29 dye national debt albatross
30 professionals wind surfing camouflage
31 communist tactics inner beauty
October November December
1 enemy only 1% exceptions
2 European Fall claims 20th century
3 click OK facts and opinions I want everything
4 trying quiz message: diversify the 0.01%
5 sunrise plague my parents Little Bother
6 bite your tongue Shakespeare cheese plover
7 mistakes technical writing political ads
8 Occupy Wall Street not a poem economic cycles
9 99% Party tinfoil lining terms of service
10 the 99% plenty of fish exchange currency
11 coalition politics statute of liberty realism wins
12 democratic sweep opening a door stealing elections
13 magical thinking suspension of disbelief not documented
14 repressed memories intellectual poverty hyperactive passivity
15 not big enough Italy good enough
16 last words die laughing blue LED's
17 cellphone age great leader typecasting
18 one must sing eurocrisis elephant
19 blow up the Earth symbiotic eurocrisis snow nor rain
20 spectacular failure belief King Jong Il dies 1
21 walk in street palm of your hand Kim Jong Il dies 2
22 politics territory dispute Kim Jong Il dies 3
23 cleansing fire shallowness Wukan
24 once bitten apple doesn't fall critical distance
25 death spittoon police support foreign pressure
26 unexpect optimality a box of chocolates
27 kinds of mistake dirt budget the horror crawls
28 non-specialists flexible business plan part of the cure
29 eyes a loss sand castles acknowledgements
30 lady or tiger until they hurt a good idea
31 time is money great corporations

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