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• Friday Night Lights: not dead in the water. I don't grok it completely, but this is very good news.
  
• This story has me crying big fat salty tears.
  
• Kriston's post is funny; the insane comment storm is hilarious.
  
• So did everybody check out that eclipse last night? Pretty dope. Here are some fantastic pictures from the DCist photo pool.