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[edit]| 17 December 2025 |
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My name's Ben Yates; I'm a technical writer, student, and keyboardist from Ann Arbor.
Writing
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So. I've been here since late 2003; I started the wikipedia articles Metrosexual and Hell, Michigan (and the wikibooks summary of Understanding Comics). Most of my stuff is elsewhere, though.
Nonfiction
[edit]How to appreciate jazz without really trying.
Sk8er Boi.
Understanding Comics.
File sharing is theft (read all the way through before you send me angry emails).
How to build a computer out of black holes.
Why is the sky blue?.
Does the Universe have granularity?.
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number).
Fiction
[edit]Now I ask you, is that any way for a cosmic body to Disintegrate?.
LifeTM.
Schrodinger killed his cat.
On the Division of Labor.
The Sticker Underground .
Private Eye.
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[edit]- ... that SKA Saint Petersburg's longest-tenured player (pictured) was traded to SKA after losing a playoff series to them?
- ... that Neoliner Origin is the largest wind-propelled cargo ship currently in service?
- ... that Guillermo de Osma endowed his alma mater's De Osma Studentship to support Spanish studies at his Institute of Valencia de Don Juan?
- ... that Femke Bol passing three runners to win the mixed 4 × 400 metres relay was called "one of Paris' signature moments"?
- ... that Miho Karasawa's stage name, True, was influenced by her songwriting for anime representing her "true" self?
- ... that the Jack-be-little pumpkin can be turned into a serving bowl for soup?
- ... that, after two sisters married Armenian leaders in the War of the Antiochene Succession, a third sister, Melisende of Lusignan, married the Armenians' enemy?
- ... that the first edition of the Autostrada Biennale featured contemporary art exhibitions temporarily hosted in private homes?
- ... that after Hkam Hkai Hpa of Hsenwi requested military aid against the Kingdom of Ava, the Yongle Emperor dispatched a eunuch in response?