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Excellent segment on This American Life about The Onion’s writing room. Skip about five minutes into the episode to find it.

NPR segment on the history of the Windows startup sound.

Why do Sox fans sing “Sweet Caroline” during the middle of the 8th? Apparently, just because it’s a fun song.

Excellent commentary by Penn Jillette on atheism. This is my “belief system” too.

“Believing there is no God means the suffering I’ve seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn’t caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn’t bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.”