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			<name>Edmund O'Reilly</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Wise Woz]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-10-05T10:44:26Z</updated>
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		<category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="News" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Check out this interesting interview with Steve Wozniak. I found it inspiring for some obvious reasons, but not pretentious as might be expected from a computer billionaire. Some highlights that caught my eye were:
&#8220;You become what you want to be in life. I wanted to be an engineer. I didn&#8217;t want to run a company.&#8221;
&#8220;Lack [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Edmund O'Reilly</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Word Play]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-09-14T11:03:31Z</updated>
		<published>2008-09-14T11:03:31Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="News" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Check out this interactive site for creating &#8212; and appreciating &#8212; typography as art.
You can manipulate the 21 essential parts of each letterform to create your own and post it to the gallery.

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			<name>Edmund O'Reilly</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Next Big Thing: .sex Domains]]></title>
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		<id>http://edmundoreilly.com/?p=149</id>
		<updated>2008-06-26T10:45:39Z</updated>
		<published>2008-06-26T10:45:39Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Business" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Internet" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="News" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Technology" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Bryan Glick" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="ICANN" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="sex" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[It was inevitable, given the sheer ubiquitousness, that .sex is under consideration for use by ICANN for domains.
&#8220;You can almost guarantee the most highly sought-after one will, unfortunately, probably be dot-sex,&#8221; said Bryan Glick of Computing Magazine.
&#8220;All the meaningful words and meaningful names in the English language have been bought up already,&#8221; Glick said.
True. While [...]]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[George Carlin]]></title>
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		<id>http://edmundoreilly.com/?p=147</id>
		<updated>2008-06-23T10:56:53Z</updated>
		<published>2008-06-23T10:56:14Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Entertainment" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="News" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="George Carlin" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Seven Dirty Words" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Some comedians have made a living with one-liners, some make fun of their lame sex lives and some just milked their one-note routine for a while and went away (see ya, Diceman).
The best comedians have always been astute observers of absurdity in an ordinary day; their material was about the stuff we saw all around [...]]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Listen, Forrest, Listen!]]></title>
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		<id>http://edmundoreilly.com/?p=142</id>
		<updated>2008-11-03T10:12:14Z</updated>
		<published>2008-05-11T00:22:26Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Film" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Forrest Gump" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Having watched Forrest Gump a few times over the years, I&#8217;ve started to see beyond the well-made tale of a simple man who seems unaffected by his (fictional) catalytic role in history. He is like the feather that appears at the beginning and end of the film: just going wherever the wind may take him, [...]]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Review: Cloverfield]]></title>
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		<id>http://edmundoreilly.com/?p=140</id>
		<updated>2008-11-03T10:12:50Z</updated>
		<published>2008-05-11T00:14:32Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Film" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Cloverfield" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="JJ Abrams" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The best monster movies have always been reflections of the fears of the day. Aliens, giant insects, vampires and indestructible serial killers have been the fare at times when people were uptight about sex, worried about radiation, on Communist witch-hunts or afraid of disease; each fear could be embodied by a Hollywood monster.
But the best [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Edmund O'Reilly</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[At The Crossroads With Eric Clapton]]></title>
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		<id>http://edmundoreilly.com/?p=132</id>
		<updated>2008-04-27T11:46:09Z</updated>
		<published>2008-04-27T11:46:09Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Music" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="blues" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Eric Clapton" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[When I was about 17, I bought a cheap electric guitar and a small amp, and began trying to emulate the music I listened to. I wanted to play loud rock and since it was my angry-young-man phase (which, now that I think about it, lasted far longer than it probably should have), playing guitar [...]]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Meditation: Here Comes the Science]]></title>
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		<id>http://edmundoreilly.com/?p=130</id>
		<updated>2008-04-27T11:28:07Z</updated>
		<published>2008-04-27T11:28:07Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="News" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="mediation" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="zen" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[For the past 20 years (give or take), the word &#8220;Zen&#8221; has been used liberally in association with some personal, commercial or business concept to suggest that the concept in question can be &#8220;mastered&#8221;, usually through a &#8220;formula&#8221; that someone &#8220;discovered&#8221;. Typically, though, this mental elixir is alluded to in a self-help book (or eBook), [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>Edmund O'Reilly</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[A Firm with a Grip]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-04-27T11:54:12Z</updated>
		<published>2008-04-27T02:14:06Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Design" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="logo" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="OGC" /><category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="The Register" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[It seems to me that the euphemisms and rhetoric used in everyday corporate double-talk are not really examined for their potential humor. It&#8217;s always about penetration, size, growth, multiple partners, hands-on, delivering the goods, etc. Sometimes it&#8217;s even about &#8220;getting in bed with&#8230;&#8221;, usually referring to an undesirable vendor or competitor.
So, with all the sex [...]]]></summary>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Bush Addresses Global Warming. Kinda.]]></title>
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		<updated>2008-02-10T06:57:32Z</updated>
		<published>2008-02-10T06:57:32Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://edmundoreilly.com" term="Internet" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[

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