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Like a Brazil outtake: Verizon quotes a rate of .002¢/KB, repeatedly reaffirms that rate, but refuses to adjust charges billed at $.002/KB. (Via.)

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A Nobel-winning astrophysicist denounces the EPA’s unceremonious closing of the “strongest library for space science and engineering in the universe.”

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Sklar’s failure to piss herself laughing at Hitchens’ Vanity Fair knee-slapper is just more proof of the matter asserted therein, evidently. (Via.)

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Knopf editor Gary Fisketjon sequesters himself on a farm outside Nashville — great town — so as to get actual editing done.

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Kate Bolick reports from Ellen Willis’ memorial service. (Via.)

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