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		<title>Olympics News Flash: Chinese Gymnasts Are 16, Just Starving</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/08/14/olympics-news-flash-chinese-gymnasts-are-16-just-starving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite substantial suggestions that some of China&#8217;s female Olympic gymnasts are younger than the required 16 years of age, Chinese apparatchi &#8211; uh &#8211; spokespeople insist that previous Chinese state-controlled news reports that showed them as being younger were erroneous. According to the Associated Press: Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CNN&#8217;s News Innovation: Stupid Headline T-Shirts</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/30/cnns-news-innovation-stupid-headline-t-shirts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 14:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having never been a fan of CNN&#8217;s headline-writing nonability, it&#8217;s truly amazing to me that someone thought that people would like any headline on CNN.com enough to put it on a freakin&#8217; t-shirt. If you go to the CNN.com home page, several story headlines have a tiny little t-shirt graphic next to them &#8212; clicking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lace Up Your Boots &#8212; We&#8217;re Going Banking!</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/04/29/lace-up-your-boots-were-going-banking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[citi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So how depressing is this? I walk by a Citi (CitiBank? CitiFinancial? Why is an enormous financial institution named with a misspelled word, anyway?) location, and they&#8217;ve got these colorful advertisements for their Citi-Online service (an online-banking service), with pictures of people doing various activities and cutesy questions like &#8220;Our place? Or yours?&#8221;, the implication [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Class Action Lawsuit Opportunity!</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/21/new-class-action-lawsuit-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 02:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this has been bugging me for aeons, and if someone has the time and patience to search for more archived videos of old Gillette shaving advertisements, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll be able to retire rich off the money you&#8217;ll raise from this sure-fire class action lawsuit. For now, I&#8217;m avoiding the whole thing, because to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging &#8212; Who&#8217;s Really Making The Money?</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/20/blogging-whos-really-making-the-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, I received some deep wisdom from an extraordinary, modern-day Vietnamese philosopher. Oddly enough, this philosopher appeared on late-night television, surrounded by bikini-clad women, and was aggressively hawking his real estate seminars. Nevertheless, I learned several important lessons from him, the most prominent among them (for me, at least) being the following (reproduced from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google AdSense Despises Me</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/12/google-adsense-despises-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to ignore the insults that Sergey Brin&#8217;s throwing at me via his little automated-ridicule-generator (also known as Google AdSense), but I&#8217;m beginning to take umbrage at the subjects of the ads appearing most frequently on this blog. A small sample, with comments (and the irony is that by listing these ads, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scanning Your Slides, or, 50 Ways to Love Your Liver</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/02/25/scanning-your-slides-or-50-ways-to-love-your-liver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technologists are eternal optimists, in that they blithely assume that their new products will never turn manifestly evil. But of course, even the most innocuous inventions can misfire, even when one is not actively seeking to use them for harm (and don&#8217;t let any guy fool you &#8212; the first thing any normal guy thinks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World&#8217;s Most Horrific Piano Chord&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/01/21/worlds-most-horrific-piano-chord/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/01/21/worlds-most-horrific-piano-chord/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know you&#8217;ve heard the commercials &#8212; you&#8217;re driving along, listening to the radio, and suddenly some guy says in an incredibly matter-of-fact voice &#8220;Hello, my name is Stan O&#8217;Hanlahan&#8230;&#8221;. And then the hushed, minor-key Piano Chord from Hell plays: &#8220;*PLING*&#8221; Stan O&#8217;Hanlahan then, incredibly matter-of-factly, spends the next thirty seconds describing an escalating odyssey [...]]]></description>
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