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Friday, January 23, 2004

Microwave popcorn was accidentally discovered by Percy LeBaron Spencer of the Raytheon Company when he found that radar waves had melted a candy bar in his pocket and made him sterile. Velcro was invented when Swiss engineer George de Mestral returned from a walk one day, noticed cockleburs clinging to his cloth jacket and decided to examine one under his microscope and did we already say "cocklebur"? Wheaties were invented when Minneapolis health clinician/Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner accidentally spilled a batch of bran gruel onto a hot stove producing a crisp flake that's very nearly edible when completely covered in sugar. And while out collecting tamarack root for what was otherwise an entirely ordinary birchbark canoe, Oddpost engineers Kevin and Don discovered that Internet Explorer stores even hidden iframes as part of a Favorite, which completely explained the double log-in problem that some subscribers were reporting for the better part of two years now. So, as part of yesterday's push that was primarily in preparation for the imminent switchover to the new backend, you received not only that fix, but a few other minor ones as well, which we could really talk about all night, but oh listen to us go on, we don't want to bore you, really enough about us, how are you, how's Judy, the kids?
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