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	<description>Stupidity got us into this mess; stupidity will get us out!</description>
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		<title>We Don&#8217;t Want 3-D TV Because We Might Have To Watch It</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2010/09/10/we-dont-want-3-d-tv-because-we-might-have-to-watch-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, the AP reports that although people who view 3-D television report the experience as being better than they expected, they doubt they would want one because it might interfere with their ability to &#8230; not watch TV: &#8220;Aside from the cost of buying 3-D sets at a time the technology is just becoming available, [...]]]></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>The Chinese Are Gambling?  We&#8217;re Doomed!</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/11/the-chinese-are-gambling-were-doomed/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/11/the-chinese-are-gambling-were-doomed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 02:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been relatively confident in the likelihood of the United States maintaining its hegemony in the world, not because of the superiority of our military capabilities, but because of the innate corrosiveness of our culture. You see, America&#8217;s international predominance is not based on nukes or aircraft carrier battle groups, both of which are inherently [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/04/29/lace-up-your-boots-were-going-banking/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/21/new-class-action-lawsuit-opportunity/#comments</comments>
		<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>Terrorism: The Cure for What Ails You</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/02/27/terrorism-the-cure-for-what-ails-you/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/02/27/terrorism-the-cure-for-what-ails-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mad cow disease]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the threat of terrorism is like cumin, or chili powder: sprinkle it on an epic screw-up and it makes everything taste a lot better. Witness what happened recently in Florida, which was plunged briefly back into the Stone Age by rolling power outages. In practically every article about that event, there was a statement [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/02/25/scanning-your-slides-or-50-ways-to-love-your-liver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cameras]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[scan your photos]]></category>
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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>Product Reviews You Can Use #1 &#8212; Uncomfortable Global Positioning</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/02/08/product-reviews-you-can-use-1-uncomfortable-global-positioning/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/02/08/product-reviews-you-can-use-1-uncomfortable-global-positioning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accidents]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some blogs and web sites review consumer products by giving you useless and irrelevant information like price, ease of use, feature sets and quality. Not this one! Here, we’re just concerned with the things that really matter about products – the social problems they solve, or introduce, in real life, not some ridiculously objective findings [...]]]></description>
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