Interesting idea here
You point out about some links that Ben has posted. The number and quality of links posted here is staggering... is there any way it would be possible to build an index of them all? Perhaps by site, and including a way to read the paragraph that the link was included in so as to make it a little more searchable? Have it return each link in a "post" with the context paragraph below the link, perhaps. Finally, perhaps add keywords, comments, and subject attributes so people can go in and flesh the collection out a bit. Would probably require a way to check the links for ones that have gone dead, too...
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