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Friday, January 08, 1999, at 12:10PM

By Eric Richardson

I hate plug and play. It just doesn't.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

Previously on this date...

2004
LA Blogs: Friday Insight
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2001
Zoolander
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2000
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Machina II
So Smashing Pumpkins have, as a last insult to Virgin, released over an hour worth (1:25, actually) of new stuff. Supposedly Billy Corgan specifically...