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	<title>Rob Lifford &#187; society</title>
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		<title>my harebrained scheme</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2008/11/20/my-harebrained-scheme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, we can all pretty much agree that the American economy is going to hell in a handbasket. It also seems clear that nobody really knows what to do about it, so even though I&#8217;m not an economist, a policy specialist, or anything that even remotely qualifies me to propose a solution, I&#8217;m gonna go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the national debt</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2008/09/04/the-national-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:13:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many indicators of a healthy or troubled economy, but I never took economics (stupid, stupid, stupid!) so I&#8217;m not in a position to tell you much about them. However, I got curious tonight about one of those indicators, the National Debt, and did some research. Here&#8217;s a quick look at what I found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>we tweet, therefore we are</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2008/05/18/on-twitter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 03:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m snipping this and posting it here just so I have a place to refer people when they ask, as they sometimes do, what the hell the appeal is of Twitter (for me, at least). This nails it: Twitter is a social network, yes, but it&#8217;s a social network without the superpoke scrabtaculous zombie noise [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>what do you make of this?</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2008/05/09/dave-gets-his-wallet-back/</link>
		<comments>http://rob.lifford.org/2008/05/09/dave-gets-his-wallet-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 14:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[friends]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Received via IM from my buddy Dave this morning: so, i lost my wallet LAST SUMMER in the adirondacks. a state trooper from up there woke me with a phone call at 6 am to say it was in an envelope that was tossed anonymously to the front door of the police station THIS MORNING. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>yep, that about covers it</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2008/02/17/yep-that-about-covers-it/</link>
		<comments>http://rob.lifford.org/2008/02/17/yep-that-about-covers-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The RIAA says &#8220;MUSIC MUST NEVER BE AVAILABLE FOR FREE OR ARTISTS WILL NEVER MAKE A LIVING,&#8221; but what they really mean is &#8220;if people can download music for free, they&#8217;ll only pay the artists if they think their work is worth it, which means they won&#8217;t have to go through us, which prevents us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>uh, no, not exactly</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2007/12/14/uh-no-not-exactly/</link>
		<comments>http://rob.lifford.org/2007/12/14/uh-no-not-exactly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:46:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science reporting isn&#8217;t an exact, um, science. In this article,&#8221;Japan Scientists Develop Fearless Mouse,&#8221; my jaw dropped when I read this: Scientists at Tokyo University say they were able to successfully switch off a mouse&#8217;s instinct to cower at the smell or presence of cats showing that fear is genetically hardwired and not learned through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wrong, Bill</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2007/09/14/wrong-bill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 04:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently noticed that our TVs are now picking up HBO, apparently for free, though no action of our own doing. Maybe someone in the neighborhood was fiddling with one of the cable boxes up on the telephone pole and decided that we just weren&#8217;t watching enough boob tube. I realize that as an ethical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>random late-night tangential thoughts</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2007/01/03/random-late-night-tangential-thoughts-on-capital-punishment/</link>
		<comments>http://rob.lifford.org/2007/01/03/random-late-night-tangential-thoughts-on-capital-punishment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just spent a little time on the terrific site NewsDesigner.com checking out the very interesting selection of of newspaper cover treatments of the Saddam Hussein execution (make sure you see both collections, mostly North American papers and international papers), and couldn&#8217;t help wondering about the executioner guys in their black ski masks. What&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tony vs. Paul</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2006/12/29/tony-vs-paul/</link>
		<comments>http://rob.lifford.org/2006/12/29/tony-vs-paul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the sort of treasure you find on YouTube now and again: awesome DIY projects by guys with boundless creativity (and seemingly limitless time on their hands). I&#8217;m so grateful for YouTube and Google Video. We don&#8217;t have cable, and most of the stuff on network TV is crap, but a body still needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>smartass time!</title>
		<link>http://rob.lifford.org/2006/11/16/dumb-delta/</link>
		<comments>http://rob.lifford.org/2006/11/16/dumb-delta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 04:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[fun]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s what I just emailed to Delta Airlines over the recent insanity: I&#8217;ve had my share of less than pleasant experiences with Delta flight attendants, but I&#8217;m not prone to blame them for their occasional surliness: they&#8217;re working in a difficult industry, for difficult management, and often with difficult customers. The story in the news [...]]]></description>
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