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	<title>Cyde Weys Musings &#187; Pop Culture</title>
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		<title>The many ways in which Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow directly inspired Neon Genesis Evangelion</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2012/01/19/gravitys-evangelion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2012/01/19/gravitys-evangelion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 02:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read the well-known post-modernist novel Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow (1973) by Thomas Pynchon, and I noticed a number of surprising similarities between it and the well-known Japanese anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995). In fact, there are so many similarities between the two, both thematically, stylistically, and plot-wise, that I am forced to conclude that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parody is not license to be racist</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/12/28/parody-is-not-license-to-be-racist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/12/28/parody-is-not-license-to-be-racist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack the Magic Negro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puff the Magic Dragon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, some Republicans thought it would be a brilliant idea to distribute a CD to members of the Republican National Convention containing a song titled &#8220;Barack the Magic Negro&#8221;. The general response was about as predictable as the sunset, and rightly consisted of outright condemnation over such disgusting and overt racism. But get this: the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Batman Minus Batman</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/12/08/batman-minus-batman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/12/08/batman-minus-batman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Batman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heath Ledger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movie review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Dark Knight]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may or may not be aware of Garfield Minus Garfield, a mash-up of the comic strip Garfield that simply removes Garfield from all frames, leaving John Arbuckle as a lonely, psychotic man. I bring it up because it serves as a useful analogy to discuss the film The Dark Knight, which I finally saw [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Slumdog Millionaire &#8211; A movie in review</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/23/slumdog-millionaire-a-movie-in-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/23/slumdog-millionaire-a-movie-in-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movie review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Slumdog Millionaire]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1098</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My mother is plugged into the independent arthouse movie scene, so she&#8217;s always seeing (and raving about) movies that I&#8217;ve never heard about. Yesterday, my cousin from New York City was in town, so we took the opportunity to see Slumdog Millionaire at the artsy movie theater in Bethesda, Maryland. I knew precisely nothing about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A perfect example of rule 34</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/16/rule-34/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/16/rule-34/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fetish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rule 34]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just stumbled across a perfect example of rule 34 (if it exists, there is a porno/fetish of it) while performing an unrelated Google search. It&#8217;s way too weird not to share it, so I present to you: Inflated anime and videogame characters. Surprisingly, it&#8217;s work-safe, because all of the characters are wearing their normal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We humans are quite full of ourselves</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/15/self-obsessing-humans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/15/self-obsessing-humans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[intelligence]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1036</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is one of the conceits of our race that we are quite full of our own intelligence. Hopefully, one day we&#8217;ll run across a vastly more intelligent species and be put in our collective place. But until then, we&#8217;ll keep on calling our own intelligence the best thing since sliced bread &#8212; something, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Fry celebrates GNU&#8217;s 25th birthday</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/03/stephen-fry-celebrates-gnus-25th-birthday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/03/stephen-fry-celebrates-gnus-25th-birthday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[GNU/Linux]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=976</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now this is a slightly unexpected, yet nevertheless entirely awesome, bit of news. Stephen Fry, famous British comedian of Fry &#038; Laurie fame (that&#8217;s Hugh Laurie, the actor who plays Dr. House on House), has released a celebratory message to GNU on its 25th anniversary. It contains a good bit of background on GNU and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why men&#8217;s gymnastics is better than women&#8217;s gymnastics</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/18/mens-gymnastics-is-better/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/18/mens-gymnastics-is-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cheating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese gymnasts]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Men&#8217;s gymnastics is better than women&#8217;s gymnastics (not that either is even close to my favorite sport, mind you). Here&#8217;s why. In addition to having events that focus on grace, flexibility, tumbling, vaulting, etc., men&#8217;s gymnastics has at least two events that focus mainly on strength: pommel horse and rings. And why is a focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Otakon 2008 impressions</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/10/otakon-2008-impressions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/10/otakon-2008-impressions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anime]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[convention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cosplay]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=920</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So after spending most of today decompressing from Otakon by mindlessly watching the Olympics, I&#8217;m ready to relate my impressions about the event, which I promised on Thursday. Despite never having been to an anime convention, Otakon didn&#8217;t overwhelm me at all. It was pretty much exactly like what I expected. Going to Wizard World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Otakon, here I come</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/08/otakon-here-i-come/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/08/otakon-here-i-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This weekend I&#8217;m attending Otakon, which is an anime convention in Baltimore, MD. Yes, stop making those faces. I&#8217;m going with a coworker (Drinian, who comments on this blog occasionally). The closest thing to an anime convention I&#8217;ve ever been to was Wizard World East in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania some years ago. That was a comic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As overheard on the DC Metro</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/03/as-overheard-on-the-dc-metro/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/03/as-overheard-on-the-dc-metro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Coach handbag]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Friday, I took the Metro into DC to attend a birthday party for one of my coworkers. Sitting directly across from me was a group of three girls &#8212; they looked rather young, but I&#8217;ll be charitable and say they were eighteen. They were definitely dressed up for a night on the town, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brushing up against fame at the Good Stuff Eatery</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/15/good-stuff-eatery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/15/good-stuff-eatery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[fame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Stuff Eatery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restaurant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restaurant review]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spike Mendelsohn]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend on the night of my birthday (Woohoo, another year closer to death!), I joined in on an expedition to a new restaurant in Washington D.C., the Good Stuff Eatery. The friend that I went with is a local food review blogger and pretty thoroughly covered the food, so I shall cover the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authors are the only ones to see the fairer side of copyright</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/09/copyright-across-industries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/09/copyright-across-industries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most netizens agree that copyright is pretty horrifically broken. It lasts far longer than it has any business to, its length keeps getting extended, it&#8217;s way too restrictive, and it benefits major corporations a lot more than it does individuals. Most of copyright&#8217;s terrible public image has come from the music industry and the movie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better yourself through some brief reading</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/07/better-yourself-through-some-brief-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/07/better-yourself-through-some-brief-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meta]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurt Vonnegut]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=859</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m still decompressing (or is it recompressing?) from my July 4th weekend vacation at the beach, and figuring out what if anything to write about it on here, consider these two excellent links: Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s Advice to Writers is a must-read for any blogger or writer, would-be or otherwise. The most important advice to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regretting recommending American Gladiators</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/02/regretting-recommending-american-gladiators/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/02/regretting-recommending-american-gladiators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I apologize to anyone who took my recommendation of that abysmal show &#8220;American Gladiators&#8221; seriously and actually started watching it. It seems like everyone at my work (including me) reached the unanimous conclusion that that show was lame and not worth further watching within a couple of episodes of me writing that post. One can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going to the DC101 Chili Cook-Off today</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/10/dc101-chili-cookoff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/10/dc101-chili-cookoff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 06:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=779</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Woohoo, I&#8217;m going to the DC101 Chili Cook-Off today. It&#8217;s been awhile since I&#8217;ve gone (maybe five or six years?). I wonder which will be better this year, the bands or the chili? Post-concert update: All right, that was fun. Unfortunately, I cannot speak as to the status of the chili, because I just saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, a good History Channel show</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/07/finally-a-good-history-channel-show/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/07/finally-a-good-history-channel-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 04:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The History Channel has been disappointing me lately. I used to watch it regularly, trusting it because, after all, they&#8217;re talking about history; how could they get it wrong?! And their programs on actual history are still good. But they&#8217;ve aired a whole flood of pseudoscientific bullcrap recently. For instance, one of their new shows [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The answer to &#8220;Where do people find the time?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/26/the-answer-to-where-do-people-find-the-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clay Shirky, who I saw at Wikimania 2006, has recently given an excellent speech that answers the question &#8220;Where do people find the time?&#8221; that is oft-asked to people with techie inclinations. I&#8217;ll let his own words speak for themselves. Click through to read the rest of it; his main thrust is dead on. So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DreamWorks to make Ghost in the Shell live action movie</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/17/dreamworks-ghost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/17/dreamworks-ghost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This could either turn out incredibly good, or incredibly bad. DreamWorks, thanks to the dealings of Stephen Spielberg (who isn&#8217;t necessarily signed on as director), has acquired the rights to make a live action 3D Ghost in the Shell movie. Ghost in the Shell is an anime and manga that follows the exploits of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Slashdot April Fools&#8217; joke?</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/02/no-slashdot-april-fools-joke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/02/no-slashdot-april-fools-joke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d been looking forward to Slashdot&#8217;s take on April Fools&#8217; since last year. So what happened? There was nothing unusual on the site yesterday. It was as if the only April Fools&#8217; joke was that there was none. Even Google does April Fools&#8217; jokes; does Slashdot all of a sudden think they&#8217;re too serious for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arthur C. Clarke heads off to that great Rama in the sky</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/18/arthur-c-clarke-heads-off-to-that-great-rama-in-the-sky/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/18/arthur-c-clarke-heads-off-to-that-great-rama-in-the-sky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:18:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is with much sadness that I learn of the death of Arthur C. Clarke at the age of 90 in his country of residence, Sri Lanka. Arthur C. Clarke was the last surviving member of the trio of great golden age science fiction writers affectionately known as the &#8220;Big Three&#8221;, which also included Isaac [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garfield does have its moments of brilliance</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/01/garfield-does-have-its-moments-of-brilliance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/03/01/garfield-does-have-its-moments-of-brilliance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The comic Garfield has taken a lot of grief on the web in the past few days, most of it deserved. The comic has been around since the 1970s and it really just isn&#8217;t that funny. For instance, Garfield Without Garfield makes the strip much funnier by removing Garfield entirely. The resultant strips show Jon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incarceration rate at an all time high, yet no talk of marijuana legalization</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/28/incarceration-rate-and-weed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/28/incarceration-rate-and-weed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news media is full of shocked responses to the latest report showing that incarceration is at an all time high in America, with one out of every 99.1 adults behind bars. Of course, not one mainstream media article addresses the obvious issue at hand: we would have much less of a problem if marijuana [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No, Virginia, there are only 8 planets</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/27/eight-planets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/27/eight-planets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN is running a &#8220;heartwarming&#8221; human interest piece about a fourth grader who came up with a mnemonic to help &#8220;those having trouble remembering the newly assigned 11 planets&#8221; as part of a National Geographic contest. Unfortunately, the contest, and thus the mnemonic, are wrong. It&#8217;s too bad they didn&#8217;t consult an astronomer before running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet sucks because idiots are legion and vocal</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/25/the-internet-sucks-because-idiots-are-legion-and-vocal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/25/the-internet-sucks-because-idiots-are-legion-and-vocal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 13:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been pondering for awhile now why the Internet sucks so much. Sure, it has its good points (like free knowledge), but it also has the largest collection of idiots ever assembled in one place, virtual or not. All you have to do to verify this for yourself is to spend a few minutes browsing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professor Rockstar</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/02/15/professor-rockstar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was an opinion columnist for University of Maryland&#8217;s student newspaper The Diamondback for three semesters before I graduated. The columns I wrote are still up on the web archive, but I&#8217;d rather not depend on The Diamondback to host them indefinitely. Thus, I have decided to repost them on this blog, not only to [...]]]></description>
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