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7. March
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13. June
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15. July
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life and we nee
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bet wee ial one.. ose bet
n spiritu . and, by ween a
ality and implicati
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ly that d gy.
gadget istinc tion
or gizmo is a fals
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spiritual bridge th as ar tific
and tech e gulf b ial as an
nologica et ween y
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hnolog step:
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at big a
spendin leap. Ch
g at lea ances a
st 10% o re you’re
to do no f your in already
w is dev come on tithing –
desire, e ote your tech. All
ver y utte entire be you hav
rance, e ing – ev e
ver y dee er y thou
Those o d – to te ght, eve
f us who chnolog ry
already. are App y.
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17. August
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star te sh
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19. September
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21. October
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23. November
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25. December
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26. Noise to Signal is a cartoon I’ve been drawing since 2007. Its first
online home was at SocialSignal.com; it now lives in a tasteful two-
bedroom walk-up at RobCottingham.com.
Several of these cartoons first appeared on ReadWriteWeb.com,
which has been kindly running my cartoons weekly since 2008.
But enough about me. This is your calendar. Please add your
biography below.
© Rob Cottingham 2010. The Noise to Signal cartoons in this calendar, and accompanying text,
are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
The calendar grids themselves are released to the public domain. Go crazy!