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TOPIC: There are Only Two Prices: Free and What It Costs

This week, Dan and Merlin return to the classic lineup and some classic topics, including knowing your value, learning what to charge, and realizing what you can live with.

Also: jury duty, traveling, bathrooms, the sliding scale of suffering, and what-have you.

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• 5by5 | Back to Work #124: The Tuesday Afternoon Version of Me
  TOPIC: The Chinese Symbol for 'Pants' Inside of The Chinese Symbol for 'Jury Duty.'This week, Dan's away, so Merlin goes solo, taking a break from jury duty to talk about the opportunities that can be hiding inside change, inconvenience, and tumult.
• Hawkeye #11 - Comics by comiXology
  Marvel.com description: "Pizza is my Business - …before it’s too late for us. THE breakout character of 2012… becomes the breakout character of 2013... as PIZZA DOG gets his own issue.Literally… the entire issue… it’s all from the dog’s point-of-view.Pizza Dog gets hired to solve a crime -- the grizzly murder that shocked Team Hawkguy -- and the only thing more shocking than THAT… is what happens the end of THIS.Seriously. This is not a joke! Even the coloring. Dog issue. We’re all gettin’ fired. PLEASE READ…"
• Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon (Marvel NOW!): Matt Fraction, David Aja, Javier Pulido: 9780785165620: Amazon.com: Books
  The breakout star of this summer's blockbuster Avengers film, Clint Barton - aka the self-made hero Hawkeye - fights for justice! With ex-Young Avenger Kate Bishop by his side, he's out to prove himself as one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes! SHIELD recruits Clint to intercept a packet of incriminating evidence - before he becomes the most wanted man in the world. You won't believe what is on The Tape! What is the Vagabond Code? Matt Fraction pens a Hawkeye thriller that spans the globe...and the darkest parts of Hawkeye's mind. Barton and Bishop mean double the Hawkeye and double the trouble...and stealing from the rich never looked so good.
• Hawkeye: Little Hits, Vol. 2: Matt Fraction, David Aja, Javier Pulido: 9780785165637: Amazon.com: Books
  Artist David Aja returns to the most critically acclaimed comic of 2012, as ace archer Clint Barton faces the digital doomsday of - DVR-Mageddon! Then: Cherry's got a gun. And she looks good in it. And Hawkeye gets very, very distracted. Plus: Valentine's Day with the heartthrob of the Marvel Universe? This will be...confusing. Marvel architect Matt Fraction continues his exciting, adventurous reinvention of the arrowed Avenger!
• Roderick on the Line, Ep. 76: "The Cherry of Somebody's Appeal"
  The Problem: This is why John can’t go to karaoke.
• persistent.info: Getting ALL your data out of Google Reader
  Reader has Takeout support, but it's incomplete. I've therefore built the reader_archive tool that dumps everything related to your account in Reader via the "API". This means every read item3, every tagged item, every comment, every like, every bundle, etc. There's also a companion site at readerisdead.com that explains how to use the tool, provides pointers to the archive format and collects related tools4.
• Reader is Dead by mihaip
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• Twitter / mihai: Thanks to @siracusa I have ...
  Thanks to @siracusa I have a new name pronunciation guide http://persistent.info/files/name.mp3 (P.S. you got it, rhymes with margarita)
• A Beautiful Mind (2001)
  After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish.
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• 5by5 | Mac Power Users #143: RSS and Replacing Google Reader
  David and Katie talk about the impending shutdown of Google Reader and their solutions for RSS
• David Blaine Street Magic: YouTube Edition! - YouTube
  David Blaine brings his famous street magic to YouTube. Watch as the famous magician blows the minds of two Los Angeles idiots. WARNING: This magic is amazing.
• Fundamental attribution error - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  In social psychology, the fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or attribution effect) describes the tendency to overestimate the effect of disposition or personality and underestimate the effect of the situation in explaining social behavior. The fundamental attribution error is most visible when people explain the behavior of others. It does not explain interpretations of one's own behavior — where situational factors are more easily recognized and can thus be taken into consideration. This discrepancy between attributions for one's own behavior and for that of others is known as the actor–observer bias.
• Penn and Teller Magic bullet catch complete - YouTube
  
• The Great Escape (1963)
  Allied POWs plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
• Bayes' theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  In probability theory and statistics, Bayes' theorem (alternatively Bayes' law or Bayes' rule) is a result that is of importance in the mathematical manipulation of conditional probabilities. It is a result that derives from the more basic axioms of probability.
• Kung Fu Grippe: [Merlin's love letter to Hawkeye 11]
  I’ve only read Hawkeye #11 five or six times since yesterday. So, I feel utterly unqualified to declare that it’s one of the best single comic issues of the Modern Age as well as an empirically teachable model of economical visual storytelling with a literal heart.
• Nell (1994)
  In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell - a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.

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