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	<description>Stupidity got us into this mess; stupidity will get us out!</description>
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		<title>The Machines Have Already Taken Over, Part I</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2009/12/04/the-machines-have-already-taken-over-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, when did they pass a law requiring me to be polite to a computer?
Look, maybe I&#8217;m just too steeped in this world-takeover stuff (any day now, by the way!), but you&#8217;d think the so-called &#8220;experts&#8221; would have learned how to take precautions against a robot revolt.
But no, apparently not.  For example, when Microsoft&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rock On!</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/12/09/rock-on/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/12/09/rock-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again, I feel like a mosquito at a nudist colony &#8212; I have so many options, I just don&#8217;t know where to begin!  Auto maker bailouts!  Corruptocratic politicians in Illinois!  International intrigue!
So of course, I&#8217;m going to talk a little bit about floating rocks.
I guess it&#8217;s a sign of either our sophistication or utter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When All You&#8217;ve Got Is 7,000 Howitzers, Everything Starts Looking Like Fluffy Clouds That Must Be Killed</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/08/05/when-all-youve-got-is-7000-howitzers-everything-starts-looking-like-fluffy-clouds-that-must-be-killed/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/08/05/when-all-youve-got-is-7000-howitzers-everything-starts-looking-like-fluffy-clouds-that-must-be-killed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=64</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So were our good friends the Chinese Communists satisfied with stealing our gambling profits?  Can they rest, now that they&#8217;ve attempted to co-opt the world&#8217;s venality?
Of course not!  Instead, they&#8217;ve moved on to actions based on their idiosyncratic mistranslation of a popular Western song, as they set to work in their Army-ant-like way [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/30/cnns-news-innovation-stupid-headline-t-shirts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 14:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=59</guid>
		<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; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mars Lander Touches Down, Immediately Takes Picture of Foot</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/27/mars-lander-touches-down-immediately-takes-picture-of-foot/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/27/mars-lander-touches-down-immediately-takes-picture-of-foot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 17:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=57</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s comforting to know that we can send a spacecraft across the cold vastness of radiation-filled space, program it to land autonomously on a nigh-airless planet, and have it immediately replicate all the technological acuity of a clueless father vacationing at Disneyworld by taking a picture of its foot:

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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 cool [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=53</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Out Of My Head, Google!</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/04/26/get-out-of-my-head-google/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/04/26/get-out-of-my-head-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=52</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alright, I&#8217;m getting annoyed with Google again &#8212; this time it&#8217;s their automated telepathic behavior predictor/installer that&#8217;s really sticking it to me.
Think I&#8217;m kidding?  If you&#8217;ve got Google&#8217;s search bar, try typing in the beginning of a general question; Google will then activate its mind-reading scanner (embedded in all computer monitors manufactured after 1992) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Respond To Legal Disclaimers In Emails &#8211; A Mildly Nuclear Suggestion</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/04/20/how-to-respond-to-legal-disclaimers-in-emails-a-mildly-nuclear-suggestion/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/04/20/how-to-respond-to-legal-disclaimers-in-emails-a-mildly-nuclear-suggestion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=50</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re dealing with lawyers via email, you will receive messages with threatening disclaimers attached to them.  These disclaimers essentially foretell the Apocalypse if you do something normal, like forward the email message to someone else.
Problem is, lawyers have these disclaimers set to automatically append themselves to every email message they send.  So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Only Thing The Music Industry Is Taxing Is Our Patience</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/28/the-only-thing-the-music-industry-is-taxing-is-our-patience/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/28/the-only-thing-the-music-industry-is-taxing-is-our-patience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin relays a Portfolio story on how Warner Music is spearheading a lobbying push for Congress to require a &#8220;music tax&#8221; be bundled into your monthly internet service provider fee &#8212; supposedly for unlimited access to &#8220;a database of all known music.&#8221;
Apart from the fact that the phrase &#8220;new tax&#8221; gets most people in [...]]]></description>
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