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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>Maybe You Should Have Just Kept It On The Radio&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/07/18/maybe-you-should-have-just-kept-it-on-the-radio/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/07/18/maybe-you-should-have-just-kept-it-on-the-radio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=61</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Insensitivity alert!
So a July 16 &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221; story was quite sympathetic to an Ohio family who were in such dire financial straits that they couldn&#8217;t even afford meat anymore.  The NPR story went on for five minutes, essentially indicting the economy and painting a portrait of misery.
This is a case where less would, [...]]]></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>
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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>Osama bin Laden: A Cappella Geek</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/20/osama-bin-laden-a-cappella-geek/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/05/20/osama-bin-laden-a-cappella-geek/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 01:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=56</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I knew we hadn&#8217;t fully plumbed the depths of this evil man&#8217;s depravity and hatred of all humankind.  In addition to his advocacy of mass murder against innocent civilians, this cave-hiding nutjob, according to Newsweek, was an a cappella aficionado:
According to &#8220;Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory,&#8221; by author Mickey Rapkin, [...]]]></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>
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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>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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		<title>Nukes by Mail</title>
		<link>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/25/nukes-by-mail/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/25/nukes-by-mail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 20:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/25/nukes-by-mail/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I admit it.  I am torqued.  Torqued!
Do you have any idea how much it&#8217;s cost me to develop (and, via espionage, steal) my own nuclear weaponry?  More than a few peanut butter sandwiches, let me tell you.
And now I see this story, about how we accidentally sent some nuclear warhead fuses [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/21/new-class-action-lawsuit-opportunity-for-advertising/</guid>
		<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 [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/20/blogging-whos-really-making-the-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/2008/03/20/blogging-whos-really-making-the-money/</guid>
		<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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