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Ideas that were almost used

Proposing marriage by means of a weblog trackback.

There are, of course, less matrimonially-oriented variations on this idea.  Thanks to Eric for sharing the thought.

Posted by Tyler Cowen on July 8, 2005 at 07:23 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink

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