Stolen Pixels #3:
Artificial Idiocy

By Shamus Posted Tuesday Jul 15, 2008

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Stolen Pixels #3 is up. You could go read it now, if you’re into that sort of thing. You could even comment. Or not. Whatever. I’m just reminding you. No need to get all defensive. I was just tryin’ to be nice.

Sheesh.

 

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1 comments

 

One thought on “Stolen Pixels #3:
Artificial Idiocy”

  1. Ian says:
    Tuesday Jul 15, 2008 at 3:23 pm

    Silly Shamus, you forgot to close the comments here. ;)

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