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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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There's a great bit in Rowan Atkinson's historical sitcom *Blackadder* that illustrates this principle. In "Ink and Incapability" Blackadder and friends have accidentally burned the only copy of Samuel Johnson's original dictionary of the English language.
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2026-06-05T21:23:59.106Z