Okay… not sure what makes that odd… seems a perfectly cromulent dissertation topic?
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Sounds exactly like the early 80’s for a middle schooler. 
Maybe middle school kids just suck.
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One oddity is that Ritchie never submitted it to Harvard; it was basically lost to the world until a year after his death, when his sister Lynn found a copy. Lots more info here: dmrthesis.net (which includes a link to the article @catsidhe referred to, along with a lot of related material).
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Rave squid does not like the paparazzi
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Google’s in-house docs about search ranking leak online, sparking SEO frenzy
A trove of documents that appear to describe how Google ranks search results has appeared online, likely as the result of accidental publication by an in-house bot.
The leaked documentation describes an old version of Google’s Content Warehouse API and provides a glimpse of Google Search’s inner workings.
The material appears to have been inadvertently committed to a publicly accessible Google-owned repository on GitHub around March 13 by the web giant’s own automated tooling. That automation tacked an Apache 2.0 open source license on the commit, as is standard for Google’s public documentation. A follow-up commit on May 7 attempted to undo the leak.
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There’s some good 'uns in there. I rather liked this one from Chiswick Park in London (business park, home of Discovery Channel in the UK):
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you know what that post needs? well, i’ve got a fever… and the only thing that’s gonna cure that fever is…
More Cow Balls!
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Interesting, but if anything this reminds me of Brazil.
They make really good grips, though.
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Keep those cables there. We’ll need them to make Faraday Cages when the AI and robot dogs with assault rifles take over.
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I’ve been saying this for years now (not that anyone cares), but it’s either pull the plug or, where that’s not an option, distract them with whatever their equivalent of pornography is.
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probably something along the lines of
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