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		<title>Causes, Effects, Lurking Variables, and Brainrot</title>
		<link>http://silentalias.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/causes-effects-lurking-variables-and-brainrot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:13:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In introspecting on these variables on the beach with my dad this morning I stumbled onto a related doozy: video killed the radio star. More importantly however, video kills the imagination. The ambiguity of the 1000 words that a picture can substitute forces for the reader to imagine their own image of whatever is being described, thereby revving the imagination engine. Video, however, provides a single interpretation which requires absolutely no creative juices to be running.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silentalias.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4994692&amp;post=190&amp;subd=silentalias&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Collaborative Writing, Authoring, Writer&#8217;s Block</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SilentAlias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The challenge is as follows. The project exists as entirely my own writing, and as the combined writing of myself and others. Every new bit of content that I add thus needs to work for both versions, and that is becoming increasingly difficult.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silentalias.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4994692&amp;post=187&amp;subd=silentalias&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trees, Ficly Trees, Tree Metaphors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every story in a Ficly tree has one very important relationship: the story that spawned it, except in the case of the very first ficlet written in that tree: the ultimate seed. Ficly allows for users to compose not only sequels to a story, but also prequels. Much as a tree grows both up as branches and down as roots, Ficly trees grow forward with sequels and backward with prequels. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silentalias.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4994692&amp;post=182&amp;subd=silentalias&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smallville; Starcraft II: am I late to the party?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 04:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SC 2 runs with an Intel GMA x3100. However, my Dell Latitude D630 apparently lags the game, enough so that Battle.net lets me know about it. I tried playing an unranked practice and learned two things: 1) Lagging for 5 seconds every 20 seconds will bring me down to 0 of my allotted 45 seconds of lag within 5 minutes and 2) I still suck with Terran.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silentalias.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4994692&amp;post=164&amp;subd=silentalias&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry, Prose, Songs, Rants, Roves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 06:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had a heart to heart with a friend, Max Lytus. He&#8217;s had some dark periods, and so we related by bringing out all of our old poems, songs, stories. There was some pretty awesome, even if long forgotten, material in our stacks, and so he&#8217;s started out his own blog at maxlytus.wordpress.com. If [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silentalias.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4994692&amp;post=152&amp;subd=silentalias&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Homeopathy, Comparisons, and Meyers Briggs</title>
		<link>http://silentalias.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/homeopathy-comparisons-and-meyers-briggs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SilentAlias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don&#8217;t know much about homeopathy then you should probably read the WP article. I first heard of homeopathy when I read Voodoo Science by Robert Park. On the beach with my parents last New Year I found out that my sister had once been treated with homeopathic remedies. She was given the MMR [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silentalias.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4994692&amp;post=136&amp;subd=silentalias&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marketing Tools and Learning Metaphors</title>
		<link>http://silentalias.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/marketing-tools-and-learning-metaphors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SilentAlias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I say down with required reading. I didn't teach myself PHP because I read a book: I read a book because I wanted to use PHP to make a website. My brothers didn't register for the Drupal Wiki to become contributors: they registered to solve the problem of having no access to the content they wanted. I wont learn anything by reading a book before I come to class: I will read the book because what I learned in class made my curiosity itch for more.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silentalias.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4994692&amp;post=144&amp;subd=silentalias&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media and all that Hype</title>
		<link>http://silentalias.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/social-media-and-all-that-hype/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SilentAlias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Google were to absorb those [Wikipedia and IMDB] too (as per its blobular trend), and maybe make a Linux based Google OS, and take over Meebo for its multi-protocol instant messaging, then I really would bow down to that Blue Red Yellow Blue Green Red Skynet and consider myself saved by the Technorevolution. They did after all come out with the Android, and if naming is any indication of function...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silentalias.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4994692&amp;post=128&amp;subd=silentalias&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I told me so, was right, and should have taken my own advice.</title>
		<link>http://silentalias.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/i-told-me-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 18:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SilentAlias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doing something nice (on the roadway) that makes another driver think "Oh, why thank you!" rather than "What an asshole!" should ideally spread forward, pushing that driver to repeat a nice action later on, increasing the levels of overall happiness.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silentalias.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4994692&amp;post=120&amp;subd=silentalias&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ChristWire: 404/502 (You&#8217;re doing it wrong!)</title>
		<link>http://silentalias.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/christ-wire404-502-errors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 14:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SilentAlias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 404 Error message was created by an unholy menagerie of vile atheists, Democrats, liberals and Godless Soviets in the Year of our Lord 1992.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=silentalias.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4994692&amp;post=109&amp;subd=silentalias&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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