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Another Murder Inc. link, this

Another Murder Inc. link, this one to the NY Daily News’ Golder Age of New York Mobsters. The piece on Murder Inc. Getting Busted is a nice summary of who was who in the squad.

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Who were the Benandanti, and

Who were the Benandanti, and how would you know if you are one of them?
And how does Arlecchino fit into all this?

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Murder Inc., a squad of

Murder Inc., a squad of jewish hitmen for the National Crime Syndicate, headed by Albert Anastasia, both links from the Organized Crime pages on About.com.

I learned about them while reading the Ghost Dog roleplaying game.

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The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol.

The Overcoat, by Nikolai Gogol.

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From this thread What Stephen

From this thread What Stephen ‘Mathematica’ Wolfram’s been up to [Robot Wisdom], which starts with a rant about an interview with Stephan Wolfram, who wrote the legendary program Mathematica, I got to The Finite Nature Hypothesis of Edward Fredkin.

Apparently, Fredkin’s theory is that nature is finite, and can be modelled at the most basic level as a cellular automata. In simpler terms, nature is a computer program.

What he’s saying, quite simply, is that we may be living in The Matrix.