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		<title>Facebook: You Are Not Its Customer, You Are Its Product</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now it’s not just about whether my dinner will be interrupted by a telemarketer. It’s about whether my dreams will be dashed by the collection of bits and bytes over which I have no control and for which companies are currently unaccountable. – Lori Andrews Orwell&#8217;s Big Brother is here and instead of coercing you to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bobcat Goldthwait&#8217;s &#8220;God Bless America&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me begin by saying that I know killing people is wrong. And bad. I hardly ever do it. But no one who is human can claim to never having felt that dark impulse. However, watching people being killed in films or in video games is good for you. Studies show that it promotes gum [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs Died Because of &#8220;Magical Thinking&#8221; – Reality is Unforgiving</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The brother of a close friend thinks I&#8217;m a jerk because I tried very hard to present evidence to him that acupuncture is simply magical thinking with no basis in science. I mean, of course, I am a jerk, but not for that reason. In attempting this, I was going against the very good advice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maillardet&#8217;s Automaton – A Real Life &#8220;Hugo&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve seen Hugo, the Martin Scorcese-directed adaptation of Brian Selznick&#8217;s marvelous children&#8217;s book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, you&#8217;re already familiar with the 18th century passion for automations: mechanical wonders that mimicked the behaviors of dancers, magicians, circus acrobats, fortune tellers and more. They were far more than children&#8217;s wind-up toys. These automatons were clockwork [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zombies: Infographic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2011, Mexico City held the world&#8217;s largest zombie walk with 9,860 registered marchers. The event was held, in part, to collect donations for a local food bank. This broke the previous record set in Asbury Park, NJ in 2010 where they gathered 4.093 zombies. I&#8217;ve written about Zombie Walks before. Now here&#8217;s an infographic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Memory Works: Infographic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years I&#8217;ve been fascinated by workings (and failings) of human memory. If not for the continuous autobiographic stream of our memories, how would we know who we are?  Can we always rely on our memories to be an accurate record of our past? The best single volume reading on the topic has to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Backwards Ran Sentences: The Best of  Wolcott Gibbs from the New Yorker</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a lifelong obsessive, compulsive reader it always saddens me when I reach the end of a favorite author’s lifetime output. It’s satisfying but somewhat melancholy to realize that I’ll never read another piece by – insert names here [Aldous Huxley, A.J. Liebling, Joseph Mitchell, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Parker, etc.] for the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Zone One&#8221; by Colson Whitehead, A Zombie Novel You Can Read in Public Without Embarrassment</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So tentative bureaucracy rose from the amino-acid pools of madness, per its custom.&#8221; – from Zone One by Colson Whitehead Anyone who knows me well, knows how much I like zombies, as a horror genre. (If they were real, I&#8217;d probably turn against them, for purely practical reasons). There are a lot of very low-budget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Plimpton&#8217;s Video Falconry and John Hodgman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Screenshot of an opening scene in George Plimpton&#8217;s Video Falconry. I&#8217;m pretty much eliminating all those people in my life who don&#8217;t share my worship of John Hodgman. If you&#8217;re asking yourself, who is John Hodgman? There may still be hope for you. John Hodgman is a minor television personality  and author. He was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zombies Worth Over $5 Billion to US Economy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[24/7WallStreet.com analyzes the economic boon of the walking dead in all media, and comes up with a $5 billion figure.The impressive figures author Jon C. Ogg comes up with are below. And he even thinks these are all low-ball figures! Regardless of the reason, zombies are worth billions of dollars. The figure that we were [...]]]></description>
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