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    <h1 id="head">Ben Kurtovic</h1>
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                        <td id="about-tl" class="about-l dark-l">Email</td>
                        <td id="about-tr" class="about-r dark-r"><a href="mailto:ben.kurtovic@gmail.com">ben.kurtovic@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="mailto:kurtovc2@illinois.edu">kurtovc2@illinois.edu</a></td>
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                        <td class="about-l light-l">GitHub</td>
                        <td class="about-r light-r"><a href="//github.com/earwig">earwig</a></td>
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                        <td class="about-l dark-l">IRC</td>
                        <td class="about-r dark-r"><a href="http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23%23earwig">Earwig</a> on <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a></td>
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                        <td class="about-l light-l">Wikipedia</td>
                        <td class="about-r light-r"><a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:The_Earwig">[[User:The Earwig]]</a></td>
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                        <td class="about-l dark-l">Twitter</td>
                        <td class="about-r dark-r"><a href="//twitter.com/the_earwig">@the_earwig</a></td>
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                        <td class="about-l light-l">LinkedIn</td>
                        <td class="about-r light-r"><a href="//linkedin.com/in/benkurtovic">benkurtovic</a></td>
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                        <td id="about-bl" class="about-l dark-l">PGP Key</td>
                        <td id="about-br" class="about-r dark-r"><a href="http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=0x8A19649AE8DBB515&amp;fingerprint=on&amp;op=index">E8DBB515</a></td>
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                <p id="about-me-top">I'm a software developer and <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/">Wikipedian</a> currently studying computer science at the <a href="//illinois.edu/">University of Illinois at Urbana&ndash;Champaign</a>. I'm the guy behind <a href="//github.com/earwig/mwparserfromhell">mwparserfromhell</a> and <a href="//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot">EarwigBot</a>.</p>
                <p>On this page, you can find my identities on a few other sites, check out the projects I'm working on, and read some of my strange ramblings in blog form.</p>
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                <h2 class="index-header"><a class="incognito" href="//twitter.com/the_earwig">Tweets</a></h2>
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                <a class="twitter-timeline" data-dnt="true" href="//twitter.com/the_earwig" data-widget-id="392426863047364608" data-chrome="noheader" data-tweet-limit="5">Tweets by @the_earwig</a>
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