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Blast from the past: Aaron emailed a surprising shoutout (albeit unintentional) from a book on lit crit.

A friend tells me that in the book An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle), there appears a joke along the lines of:

Q: What does a frog say when you give him a book?
A: reddit, reddit, reddit, reddit, ...

Deep down, I'm imagining Nicholas Royle is a hardcore redditor.

This was an amusing reddit submission: Enought with the FAQ pages. These guys have a RAQ page!

It didn't go unnoticed by the folks over at OnlineMetals.com, who blogged about the reddit-love. So if you've seen one too many FAQs in your day, try the Rarely Asked Questions of OnlineMetals.com

There's a lot to learn:

Q. Dealer has a 6 showing, you've got a 6 and a 5. What is the correct play?
A. Double Down

The FogCreek offices in NY have a bit of an infestation problem. The kind that bobbles.

After an interview Steve and I did on the StackOverflow podcast, I decided the FogCreek offices needed a box of happy aliens to combat the economic madness happening down on Wall St.

Hopefully they'll improve productivity, like Dundies, or at least tossed off the side of their building.

I've seen evidence of a LOLmagnetz plague on their office fridge as well... I think the aliens are in good hands.

We don't have a mushroom.reddit yet, but if we did, this recent find by qgyh2 would be number one. It'd be really impressive seeing this mushroom formation on a pizza. I'll keep dreaming...

I announced it on the reddit blog but ReadWriteWeb trumpeted our newest hire with panache:

Here's a hot hire we missed last week - another community manager position - this time at social news site Reddit. Erik Martin, by all accounts a trouble-making rogue, has joined the Reddit staff to assist the many users of the site.

Erik still doesn't have an alien avatar, so I really ought to be working on that instead of blog entries.

Read about his alien abduction on his blog.

Couldn't make it to Business of Software 2008? Not only did you miss Pierre Francois, you also missed a presentation with actual substance (and great style) given by Dharmesh Shah of OnStartups. redditAll.com is a big fan.

Don't fret! You can view it below, which you really should do if you have any interest in startups or penguins:

I lied, there are no penguins in his talk, but now that you've watched it, I don't think you're complaining.

I remember when he first announced his candidacy -- didn't think I'd actually see the day he'd become President of the United States. Wtg, America.

Steve and I skyped into a podcast with Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood last week to discuss all things reddit. Stop reading and start listening here. We had some technical difficulties, so there were a couple redos, but the finished version sounds pretty solid. You'll never know when I went on my 3 minute stream of profanities.

I promised the guys a newer, hipper StackOverflow mascot (great site, btw) and I'm finally delivering:

Enjoy, gentlemen. StackOverflow will never be the same.

This caught my eye last week, but it's eternally relevant. After much speculation, here's what super reddit man looks like:

In this time of heated campaigning, I'm asking for your vote on TheCuteList.com for this dainty cow. This is the kind of change America really needs.

And here's an ad we're running for TheCuteList that preys on your fears of economic meltdown. TheCuteList is not ashamed for running a dirty campaign.