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		<title>Books I Read in 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of my 2009 year-in-review, I tried to make a list of all the books I&#8217;d read. Give it a shot for yourself, this is hard to do! I can remember what I&#8217;ve read in the last few months, but my memory starts to fade as I get towards summer. I found a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-12-30/books-i-read-in-2009/</link>
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		<title>Crossword Word Frequency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post, I discussed downloading several years&#8217; worth of New York Times Crosswords and categorizing them by day of week. Now, some analysis!
Here were the most common words over the last 12 years, along with the percentage of puzzles in which they occurred:


Percentage
Word
Length


6.218%
ERA
3


5.703%
AREA
4


5.413%
ERE
3


5.055%
ELI
3


4.854%
ONE
3


4.585%
ALE
3


4.496%
ORE
3


4.361%
ERIE
4


4.339%
ALOE
4


4.317%
ETA
3


4.317%
ALI
3


4.227%
OLE
3


4.205%
ARE
3


4.138%
ESS
3


4.138%
EDEN
4


4.138%
ATE
3


4.048%
IRE
3


4.048%
ARIA
4


4.004%
ANTE
4


3.936%
ESE
3


3.936%
ENE
3


3.914%
ADO
3


3.869%
ELSE
4


3.825%
NEE
3


3.758%
ACE
3


(you can click column headings to sort.)
So &#8220;ERA&#8221; appears, on average, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-12-26/crossword-word-frequency/</link>
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		<title>A new view on Minard&#8217;s Napoleon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charles Minard&#8217;s chart of the demise of Napoleon&#8217;s Grand Armée is famous for its &#8220;brutal eloquence&#8221;. Edward Tufte says it &#8220;may well be the best statistical graphic ever drawn&#8221;.

The width of the line represents the size of Napoleon&#8217;s army as it marched to Moscow and then retreated.
I found a version of this visualization put on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-12-04/a-new-view-on-minards-napoleon/</link>
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		<title>How long is a day?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the winter solstice, the days get shorter and shorter. There&#8217;s a common misconception about how quickly this change happens. Most people know that:

The summer solstice (June 21) is the longest day of the year.
The winter solstice (December 21) is the shortest day of the year.
The days get shorter between Summer and Winter.
The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-11-05/how-long-is-a-day/</link>
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		<title>Healdsburg Half Marathon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ I ran my first half marathon this weekend, the Healdsburg Half in scenic California wine country. The race was held on Halloween, and no small number of runners came in costume. This is a nice twist on the usual &#8220;what should I be for Halloween&#8221; dilemma. Instead, it&#8217;s &#8220;what should I be that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-11-01/healdsburg-half-marathon/</link>
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		<title>Guns, Germs, and Steel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I recently picked up a copy of Jared Diamond&#8217;s Guns, Germs, and Steel, a self-described &#8220;short history about everyone for the last 13,000 years.&#8221; This book should have been right up my alley: it&#8217;s all about history, specifically early human history, which I don&#8217;t know much about.
Diamond&#8217;s goal is to explain why civilizations on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-10-27/guns-germs-and-steel/</link>
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		<title>Morning Headlands Ride</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On my way in to work Friday morning, I took a detour via the Marin Headlands:

It was a total whiteout on the Golden Gate Bridge, but as soon as I got to the north bay, it cleared right up. I went back into the fog for the ~800 foot climb up Hawk Hill before breaking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-09-12/morning-headlands-ride/</link>
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		<title>Character Palette Bookmarklet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I noticed that one of my friends had Wikipedia&#8217;s article on the em dash bookmarked in her toolbar. While that article is a gem of punctuation literature, it turned out that she would go to it, select an em dash, and copy/paste it into emails.
A better way to do this is with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-09-07/character-palette-bookmarklet/</link>
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		<title>Cabbie Karma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I rode a cab to Joe and Amy&#8217;s wedding yesterday. It cost $5.05. In a rare moment of innumeracy, I handed the driver a $20 bill and asked for $16 in change. (I&#8217;d meant to ask for $14.)
In the confusion that ensued, I wound up paying $5 for my ride to an unhappy cab driver [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-08-16/cabbie-karma/</link>
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		<title>A Few More Boggle Examples</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully the last boggle post for a while! I figured I should throw up a few more examples while I still have time left on my OmniGraffle trial.

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.notable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danvk.org/wp/2009-08-11/a-few-more-boggle-examples/</link>
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