November is here, and with it inexorably comes...
THE IRON NODER CHALLENGE
Do you have what it takes to join the ranks of the IRON?
Really, it's simple:
Write 30 things worth reading in 30 days.
The mines are ferrous, dark, and deep. You have nothing but your wits and your keyboard to guide you, but should you survive the journey you will earn...
The Rewards
The pursuit of ferrousness is glorious unto itself, but our garrulous gaggle of ironnoders demands that we sweeten the deal.
- Every noder will receive 30 GP per writeup remaining at the end of the month.
- Every noder who attains IRON NODER status will receive an additional 3000 GP.
- NanceMuse has generously agreed to give a $20 Amazon Gift Card to the best food writeup in any category (whether story, recipe, poetry, factual, or what-have-you)
- jessicaj will award one random, non-monetary prize if she finds a writeup that she feels has really gone above and beyond.
- briggs will donate a free copy of his company's game, Shepherd Slaughter to anyone who achieves IRON NODER status. Winners should contact briggs directly to have the game unlocked for them.
- moeyz will mail a small reward to all noders who participate, including Iron Voters!
- If anyone wishes to sponsor additional rewards and prizes in specific categories, just let me know!
But lest ye be tempted to count your gold before the IRON is forged, be sure to heed...
The Rules
- The Iron Noder Challenge begins at 00:00 (server time) on November 1, 2012, and ends at 00:00 (server time) on December 1, 2012. Writeups submitted outside that timeframe will not be considered part of the quest.
- To join the hallowed ranks of the IRON, you must submit 30 new writeups in 30 days. The IRON NODER IDEAL is 1
per day, but we must be flexible about that to allow for normal life
circumstances, days away, illness, etc. Flooding New Writeups with 30
writeups in 1 day, while legal, would be frowned upon, and the E2
userbase would probably not react well.
- Any topic, any form, anything goes.
- There is no minimum or maximum length for writeups. They must simply
survive. Nuked nodes will not count towards your total. For this
reason, final rewards will not be dispensed until a couple of days after
the 30 November deadline, to allow last-minute writeups to be voted on
and pass muster with the editors.
- Thou mayest write a maximum of 5 daylogs.
- Thou mayest prepare material in advance. However if this stops you
noding for the remainder of October, this would also go against
the IRON NODER IDEAL.
- Yes, you can also do NaNoWriMo. Yes, this makes you completely
insane. No, you can't have any more goodies for completing both.
If you would like to join, let me know via /msg, and I'll add you to
the roster. There is nothing wrong with joining late; just don't forget
to let me know!
We'll be utilizing the ironnoders usergroup for any major
communications; if you're in the group now and are not on my confirmed
IRON NODER list as of November 1st, you'll automatically be dropped from
the group.
If you'd like to see more accurate updates than I have posted here, check out iron noder progress. It even shows which ones
you've voted on!
Whether or not you're attempting the challenge, you may volunteer to read and vote on every write-up submitted in the quest. This year's panel of Iron Voters will consist of myself, NanceMuse, Tem42, jessicaj, Aerobe, raincomplex, and whoever else wants to join! (msg me!).
Good luck and remember, rust is for the weak!
Need inspiration? Try Everything's Most Wanted, Random Nodeshells, the nodeshells on jessicapierce's scratch pad, The Custodian's Nodeshells I'd Like Filled, and wertperch's nodeshell challenge. There is also a Quest for Local Knowledge running. Double points!
Iron Node(r)s
Number of participants:
24
Number of writeups:
551
Average number of writeups:
22.96
Number of IRON NODERS:
13
Below are this year's participants. For up-to-the-minute standings, check out Iron Noder Progress!
- MAULER (33)
- SCOBY
- island fox
- dark pool
- supercalender
- Holding
- Peyton Manning
- rape philosopher
- unreconstructed
- fair catch kick
- Leonidas
- tephrochronology
- Barn's burnt down
- bluesman
- Earwax
- Blind Russian
- Talisker 10
- Metallurgical coal
- run and gun
- cherry picking
- pinkwashing
- Dagger of the Mind
- Air Jordans
- Batting average on balls in play
- Cador
- Cadbury Castle
- blue-water navy
- homonormativity
- homosociality
- The Conscience of the King
- Yeoman (F)
- Kitty Litter Cake
- Arena
- Shabbat elevator
- MOEYZ (30)
- November 1, 2012
- Whales, near the Lost and Found
- after a long time of nothing
- November 4, 2012
- Lies About My Shadow
- the church that baked cakes
- dream peace
- How do you sell your art?
- Surviving a hurricane
- Chinese Lesson
- Barn Again
- Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
- Righteous Recipes and Faithful Favorites
- My mother in her tiny combat boots
- Tomato Soup Cake With Cream Cheese Icing
- Small town girl
- I find myself here
- November 17, 2012
- The Basket of Apples
- Don't waste water
- And this is our life...I would not change it.
- Ladder of Angels
- The waitress and the lottery ticket
- a sky as it is
- Ball, Flag, Tree
- What is the meaning of pasta numbers?
- French Nun Soup
- Thoughts on the absence of trains
- Thula Sizwe
- Baraka
- raincomplex (14)
- i jttt
- ou est la gare? ou est la guerre?
- only by consuming pieces of one another can beings such as we exist
- curling
- isbi iot
- This is the part i wanted to see; about the mental institution
- a sky as it is
- a room as it is
- light and time, stone monuments in the far depth
- Snowfall
- I guess that I am the one who has changed
- make a wish
- Paintings Found in the Home of Portuous Altwick
- circles
- GLOWING FISH (101)
- The Edge of Destruction
- Groove is in the heart
- US Election Atlas
- No Excuses
- Greendale
- Life and Death are Wearing Me Out
- The Angels Take Manhattan
- Dr. Doom
- Postcrossing
- Alpha Centauri
- The Hungry Earth
- Kingdom Rush
- The Infinite Quest
- The Keys of Marinus
- J-31
- Almond Poppyseed Muffin
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Congressional District Method
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Portland Streetcar
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Space/Time
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I just happened to walk into this liquor store looking for candy and ginger ale
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Mark Reads
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Villainous
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Ramblin' Man
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Lovefool
-
animated GIF
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November 5, 2012
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By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
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2012 US Presidential Election: Dixville Notch, New Hampshire
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methane
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2012 Northern Mariana Islands Congressional Election
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November 6, 2012
-
2012 Indiana Senatorial Election
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2012 Massachusetts Senatorial Election
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2012 Missouri Senatorial Election
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November 7, 2012
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Dreamland
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2012 Montana Senatorial Election
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Mike Gravel to the Edge of Panic: Chapter 1
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2012 Portland, Oregon Mayoral Election
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Psychic Paper
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2012 C-Tran Proposition 1
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2012 Maine Senatorial Election
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Mike Gravel to the Edge of Panic: Chapter 2
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Libertarian Party
-
cinder block
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Vincent and the Doctor
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The Lodger
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2012 US Presidential Election
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Mike Gravel to the Edge of Panic: Chapter III
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Martha Jones
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Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Donna Noble
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Mike Gravel to the Edge of Panic: Chapter 4
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2012 Minnesota 6th Congressional District Election
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The Aztecs
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The Pandorica Opens
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The Abarat Quartet
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Mike Gravel to the Edge of Panic: Chapter 5
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The Master
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Wallace, Idaho
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Herman Cain
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Maybellene
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Mike Gravel to the Edge of Panic: Chapter 6
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Oh, The Thinks You Can Think!
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The Big Bang
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thrift store
-
Like
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Nancy Drew on Campus #9: Broken Promises
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One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
-
dumb
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2012 Arizona 2nd Congressional District Election
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The Next Doctor
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Mike Gravel to the Edge of Panic: Chapter 7
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2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season
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The Rescue
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November 21, 2012
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Planet of the Dead
-
A Christmas Carol
-
door
-
papaverine
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Mike Gravel to the Edge of Panic: Chapter VIII
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Africans for Norway
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Tofurky
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2012 Washington Gubernatorial Election
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The Last Great Time War
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Mike Gravel to the Edge of Panic: Chapter 9
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The Impossible Astronaut
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Day of the Moon
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The Curse of the Black Spot
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The Rebel Flesh
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Mike Gravel to the Edge of Panic: Chapter 10
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A Good Man Goes to War
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Let's Kill Hitler
-
night terrors
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The Girl Who Waited
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The God Complex
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Closing Time
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The Wedding of River Song
-
Canton Everett Delaware III
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November 29, 2012
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The Beach of Falesá
- TEM42 (33)
- An Abundance of Katherines
-
Rinne's test
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Bedside test
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Conductive hearing loss
-
otitis externa
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Pinna
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Velasquez
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The Mitten
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Black Jails
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Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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SCP-3120
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Al Capone Does My Shirts
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Sensorineural hearing loss
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torta
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Grubelsucht
-
/alias
-
-mania
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Aeshnidae
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Ear canal
-
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
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alpha privative
-
apud
-
stem to stern
-
mighty white of you
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mountain man
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theothanatology
-
white meat
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Hieronymus
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Emmett Williams
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Trader Joe's Turkey-less Stuffed Roast with Gravy
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Codes for transcribing historical documents
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Iron fertilization
-
Deep orbit
- ZEPHRONIAS (30)
- Valencia Street
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Alice and the Real World
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Once upon a time in Little Pandemonium
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Staring at the floor pattern in the kitchen
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Zeerust
-
November 6, 2012
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The Backyard Breeder
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Peachfaced Lovebird
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Fischer's Lovebird
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Nyasa Lovebird
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Lutino
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Black-Masked Lovebird
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Mia's Sick Day
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Black-Cheeked Lovebird
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Gray-Headed Lovebird
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November 16, 2012
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Swindern's Lovebird
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Abyssinian Lovebird
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Laustic
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Lanval
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Red-Faced Lovebird
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November 22, 2012
-
You Have To Burn The Rope
-
Bartimaeus Trilogy
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Into each life some rain must fall
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They will love him long after he is gone.
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The Amulet of Samarkand
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November 30, 2012
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Seven and the creation of the world
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the turn calls, and all of the birds are silent
- Andrew Aguecheek (5)
- Skyfall
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Happy and Glorious
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Tom Long's Post
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The Death of Joseph Francis Delmont
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The Sandbaggers
- PANDEISM FISH (30)
- 2012 judicial election contests
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November 2, 2012
-
Silly season
-
Gay marriage, Texas style
-
Election 2012 nightmare scenario
-
2012 Puerto Rico statehood vote
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Alumbrados
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Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1975
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Puerto Rico statehood and the politics of the next election
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Araiguma Rasukaru
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Mike Gravel
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Los Angeles County 2012 condom proposition
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The length and thickness of bones
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November 12, 2012
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Technologolem
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fiscal cliff
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The future of James Bond
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truther
-
both
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If you're insane, how do you know you're insane?
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The Magdalene Laundries
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November 19, 2012
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If at first you don't secede
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San Francisco's ban on public nudity
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Pandeism and the Arts
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Hector "Macho" Camacho
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Random Mutation Generator
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The God Franchise
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November 29, 2012
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treehouse
- HAZELNUT (30)
- Beautiful Disaster
-
I Put On My Robe and Wizard Hat
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Heartbreaking Dawn's 1498 Cauteriser
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Chips & Gravy
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Milkybar
- UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
- What school debating society taught me about politics
The Dark Heroine
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Sickipedia
- Savage Surrender
- Hazelnut's Utterly Bodacious Vampire Novel
Clapton
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The Graffs Diamonds robbery of 2009
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Chip cob
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Crossbows and Catapults
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Kajira of Gor
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Humiliation Porn
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The Modern Parents
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14-year-old boys
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Police & Crime Commissioners Election, 2012
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Passion Model
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The Witcher II - Assassins of Kings
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fanboy
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Less Than Zero
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We need to get you a girlfriend
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Cash Converters
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Quick Timer Events
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Adventureland
-
Eh up
-
Minimum alcohol pricing
- BIII (0)
- Montag (1)
- Dulwich College
- GaleCrater (18)
- Cloud Atlas
-
middleman
-
bachelorette cake
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The Good Fairies of New York
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Remembrances of my friend
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November 6, 2012
-
How to Rig an Election
-
Tron: Uprising
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composition notebook
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cinder block bookshelf
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Cosmopolis
-
Saffron Walden
-
screwdriver
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November 17, 2012
-
causality wave
-
wish list
-
biological sequence
-
Betting on a US Presidential Election
- e2reneta (9)
- Chewie
-
Plunge
-
frass
-
King Toad
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That's Entertainment
-
The Black List
-
January 22, 2006
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navel orangeworm
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Soul hamsters
- wertperch (8)
- Coniston Water
-
National anthem
-
November 5, 2012
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Utilikilt
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spliff
-
Hucknall
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Flying Bedstead
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monkey picked tea
- OOLONG (30)
- Exoticization
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order of magnitude
-
Problem of Evil
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November 4, 2012
- Open mic night
- National Monument
- Haar
- Arthur's Seat
- Firebox
- AeroPress
- Turmeric
- class
- Pre-Apocalyptic Love Song
- Friern Barnet People's Library
- Ice Haven
- privilege
- Fimo Air Light
- The Forum
- gravitational potential
- Separation of church and state
- Fritter
- Woodburner
- Delusions of Gender
- faff
- employment
- Bad Machinery
- protato
- Magpie
- Evil
- root log: November 2012
- TUBULAR (30)
- xkcd
- Fresh Prince of Tatooine
- Yolo
- duckface
- ism
- Robot Unicorn Attack
- Oh, bother! This is dubstep, isn't it?
- TREE(3)
- Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1795
- A (Possible) Evolution of the Eye
- double jump
- I Wanna Be The Guy
- Tool-Assisted Speedrun
- F5
- Sonic R
- Rule 34
- Kaizo Mario World
- sirok
- beer and ice cream diet
- Archive binge
- context
- An Untitled Story
- jumper
- Shortest mathematical joke
- Item Abuse
- I know you're cute no matter how many layers of abstraction you hide behind
- This node should be filled with haiku!
- Balloon Party
- November 29, 2012
- November 30, 2012
- Demeter (13)
- Anatomy 101
- salt and pepper squid
- splenius capitis
- Rives
- savoury peanut butter shortbread
- Crusades
- suprasternal notch
- temporal lobe
- vertebral column
- abdomen
- The Anatomy Project
- skull
- larynx
- alex (6)
- Dogtooth
- The Garden of Earthly Delights
- Gangnam Style
- Editor Log: November 2012
- Alps
- The Artist
- gnarl (4)
- Berberian Sound Studio
- answering machine
- Timeline
- Calton Hill
- THE CUSTODIAN (30)
- ground reference maneuver
- cabane strut
- AV1ATE
- Operation Credible Sport
- Dzus fastener
- SCP-916
- glass cockpit
- Semipalatinsk Test Site
- E6B flight computer
- Editor Log: November 2012
- cone of silence
- WUVHRKDBGM
- Daisy V/L
- Adcock Range
- ATOMATOEFLAMES
- November 14, 2012
- November 15, 2012
- emergency descent
- November 20, 2012
- Doolittle Raid
- VFR flight following
- IMC
- Visual Flight Rules
- deorbit
- The Vela Incident
- TNT equivalent
- brisance
- Q-Ship
- Colibri
- bean hole
- ZORROBANDITO (31)
- Piedmont, California
- hoof pick
- Time's wingèd chariot
- Canter
- Dikkie Dik
- Love only me until we die: marriage among the flatworms
- Trichina
- Post
- Flatworm
- Tardigrade
- Transient Global Amnesia
- turpentine weed
- Weitchpec
- amoeba
- Bianchi
- sew-up tires
- gazelle
- November 15, 2012
- November 16, 2012
- Cavalia
- Przewalski horse
- November 21, 2012
- equestrian helmet
- Loricifera
- Leech
- Horses: do they love us back?
- cryptobiosis
- house sparrow
- Dipper
- Magpie
- Pigeon
- Sazzz (5)
- .22 Target Shooting: A Kit List
- It's gone, aint nothing you can do about it now
- National Shooting Centre, Bisley
- November 22, 2012
- The small town rail station
- OAKLING (30)
- Changing Your Life For Free (Or, 12-Step Programs?!: WTF Is In It For Me?!)
- permission slip
- A Tree Grows In Davis
- thou
- cattle prod
- Prima donna
- How is poetic form going to help me scream about revolution
- These Chocolate Chip Cookies Are Nuts!
- Antidote Chocolate
- What to Expect With Acupuncture and Acupressure
- Strega Nona
- Multiple Personality Disorder from the Inside Out
- The Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls Making a Zine
- The Secret Lives of Girls
- Rainbow City
- Whipped Cream and Other Delights
- Jingle Bells
- free writing
- Corrections and Clarifications
- gym teacher
- Thirteen
- The Journal Entries
- The World According to Spider-Man
- wig out
- non-traditional coming out
- Cal Worthington
- Two things not to say in Nepali
- Ploughman's Lunch
- Personal Fitness merit badge
- schooled
- DECOY HUNCHES (30)
- November 12, 2012
- Purple vegetables
- SoundCloud
- BandCamp
- polydactyl
- Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
- circumaural
- oblivion
- book trailer
- Maily
- John Flansburgh
- Tao Lin
- There's a Wocket in My Pocket!
- Hearts of Space
- armoire
- Ermoupoli
- microbiome
- happily ever after
- My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
- Direct Care
- organic grocery
- Orac
- Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
- The Blind Contessa's New Machine
- Diplo
- etheric
- Bananagrams
- greenwashing
- bikewashing
- November 30, 2012