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Nick Montfort
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 8 January 2009, Taroko Gorge National Park, Taiwan and Eva Air Flight 28
 This JavaScript version, with links:
 22 November 2017

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<div>Taroko Gorge &middot; 2009-01-08</div>
<del><a href="original.html">Nick Montfort</a></del><br/>
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<del><a href="yoko_engorged/">Eric Snodgrass</a></del> <a href="http://exinfoam.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/yoko-engorged/">[ES]</a><br/>
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<del><a href="alone_engaged/">Maria Engberg</a></del> <a href="http://polyaesthetics.org/AloneEngaged.html">[ME]</a><br/>
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<del><a href="oko_na_donbas/">Mariusz Pisarski</a></del> <a href="http://techsty.art.pl/m10/oko_na_donbas.html">[MP]</a><br/>
<del><a href="karaoke_mirage/">Robert Fletcher</a></del> <a href="http://digitaliteracies.net/Karaoke_Mirage.html">[BF]</a><br/>
<del><a href="ok_artgoer_go/">Stuart Moulthrop</a></del> <a href="http://pantherfile.uwm.edu/moulthro/hypertexts/myGorge/">[SM]</a><br/>
<del><a href="at_or_to_take_regret/">Johanna Rodgers</a></del> <a href="http://dnanovel.reddustjg1.site.aplus.net/Rodgers_Taroko_At_Or_To_Take_Regret.html">[JR]</a><br/>
<del><a href="dress_for_overcast/">Clare Bryden</a></del> <a href="http://clarebryden.co.uk/mozfringe/dress-for-overcast.html">[CB]</a><br/>
<a href="http://nickm.com">Nick Montfort &middot; 2017-11-22</a>
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