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The youthful proprietor of the 4chan website, Christopher Poole, will address the TED Conference in February. Poole, who goes by the handle moot, usually keeps a rather low profile in public. His crowd is known for their irreverent online antics.

# A Christmas Story by Adrian Mole [Sue Townsend]

# Which books are bloggers at
The Spectator giving as Christmas gifts this year?

# What piqued readers most in 2009 at Newsosaur.

# "Then, in my last year of college in Gainesville, Florida, I was given secondhand a list of eighty-one books, the recommendations of Donald Barthelme to his students." [Kevin Moffett]

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