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Quickies!

Thursday Quickies:

• Via McSweeney's: Dear Mr. President
  
• BattleBots for the masses: combat robot kits for modding
  
• New York Times features Barbara Ehrenreich: Who Moved My Ability to Reason?
  
• Penguin promoted!
  
• mental_floss (which, sadly, seems like Games magazine for dummies): Six Degrees of Ken Jennings. Check out the magazine cover pic on their web site and see if you agree.
  
• Dinosaur news: Volcano + Asteroid = Mass Extinction? (I prefer this alternate theory.)
  
• Invasive exotics. Invasive exotics. ("I, for one, welcome our new cnidarian overlords." )
  
• Happy birthday, Poz!