This is only an old thing.

NEWYORKER: The Swan

Why am I going on about this now 5 year old, not very important thing?

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It doesn't look like this thing is going to fit in your old dock.

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Old-fashioned economists used to think that this sort of thing was what kept the Invisible Hand waggling lucratively away.

ECONOMIST: Spending and happiness

Glowing mice are old hat--the special thing was the way this batch was created.

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"The thing Scottish football does have is this brand called the Old Firm and whether you call it car crash television or not, everybody is attracted to it, " Spiers said.

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But I've had 90-year-old women come up to me and say, 'This is my favorite thing I've ever seen.

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This internet thing just gives them a slightly larger voice than the mimeographed handouts of old would have done.

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This research rejects the old stereotype of apolitical kids who think the environment was just a personal, voluntary thing.

CNN: Kids on mountain

Hold the new Kindle up to the old and something else is immediately obvious: there's a reason the company is calling this thing the Paperwhite.

ENGADGET: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite hands-on (Update: video)

But Google probably won't bother sending its cruisers there very often, and Aunt Nosyanne will be dealt with the old-fashioned way, by being told, politely, that we just don't do this sort of thing here.

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