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    <copyright>Copyright 2012 Logophilia Limited and Paul McFedries</copyright>
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        <title>E-books Can't Burn</title>
        <link>http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/feb/15/ebooks-cant-burn/</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:51:55 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Let us now praise electronic books.]]>
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        <title>Quitting the Paint Factory</title>
        <link>http://adamantine.wordpress.com/texts/quitting-the-paint-factory-by-mark-slouka/</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:45:23 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA["I distrust the perpetually busy." So begins a classic essay in praise of idleness. (Ignore the inane political diatribe in the last third of the piece.)]]>
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        <guid>http://adamantine.wordpress.com/texts/quitting-the-paint-factory-by-mark-slouka/</guid>
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        <title>An Open Letter to the Fastest Jogger at the Park</title>
        <link>http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-the-fastest-jogger-at-the-park</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:30:40 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Superb send-up of those of us who often run too fast in crowded spaces.]]>
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        <title>Google's iPhone Tracking</title>
        <link>http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204880404577225380456599176-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwNjExNDYyWj.html</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:35:02 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Google is now officially evil.]]>
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        <guid>http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052970204880404577225380456599176-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwNjExNDYyWj.html</guid>
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        <title>Man falls ill eating Heart Attack Grill burger</title>
        <link>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2017512427_apusheartattackgrill.html</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:17:42 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Irony thick enough to chew: Dude has a heart attack eating a "Triple Bypass" burger at the (now all-too-aptly named) Heart Attack Grill.]]>
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        <guid>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2017512427_apusheartattackgrill.html</guid>
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        <title>The Mystery Behind Anesthesia</title>
        <link>http://www.technologyreview.in/biomedicine/39289/</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:06:05 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Anesthesia is a modern medical marvel. The trouble is that "we still can't quite tell you how it works."]]>
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        <guid>http://www.technologyreview.in/biomedicine/39289/</guid>
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        <title>Forefather</title>
        <link>http://www.futilitycloset.com/2012/02/10/forefather/</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:38:32 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Eyebrows up: John Tyler, 10th President of the United States, born in 1790, has two living grandchildren!]]>
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        <guid>http://www.futilitycloset.com/2012/02/10/forefather/</guid>
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        <title>On the Meaning of Life</title>
        <link>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/on-meaning-of-life.html</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:24:50 EST</pubDate>
        <description>
        <![CDATA["Life demands to be lived. Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism."]]>
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        <guid>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/on-meaning-of-life.html</guid>
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        <title>William Empson</title>
        <link>http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Empson#Other</link>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:52:11 EST</pubDate>
        <description>
        <![CDATA["The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own."]]>
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        <guid>http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Empson#Other</guid>
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        <title>Austrian Law Student Faces Down Facebook</title>
        <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/06/technology/06iht-rawdata06.html</link>
        <pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:45:23 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Yikes!: "Facebook sent Mr. Schrems a computer disc containing 1,222 pages of [his personal] information."]]>
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