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    <copyright>Copyright 2012 Logophilia Limited and Paul McFedries</copyright>
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        <title>Machine Politics</title>
        <link>http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/05/07/120507fa_fact_kushner</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 06:43:04 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Fascinating and accessible article on uber-hacker George Hotz, "the man who started the hacker wars."]]>
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        <title>Please Read: Important Procedure Change for Contacting IT Department</title>
        <link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/05/please-read-important-procedure-change-for-contacting-it-department.html</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 06:50:50 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA["Level 3 (Low priority): ...The user has become entangled in the cords behind the computer."]]>
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        <guid>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/05/please-read-important-procedure-change-for-contacting-it-department.html</guid>
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        <title>Talking With Your Fingers</title>
        <link>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/talking-with-your-fingers/</link>
        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:50:24 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Linguist John McWhorter defends texting, calling it, memorably, "fingered speech"]]>
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        <guid>http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/talking-with-your-fingers/</guid>
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        <title>Hacks of Valor</title>
        <link>http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137382/yochai-benkler/hacks-of-valor?page=show</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:34:28 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA["Anonymous [is] the audacious provocateur, straddling the boundaries between destructive, disruptive, and instructive."]]>
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        <guid>http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137382/yochai-benkler/hacks-of-valor?page=show</guid>
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        <title>Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?</title>
        <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/8930/</link>
        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:48:28 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA["The tendency for neurotic and lonely individuals to spend greater amounts of time on Facebook per day than non-lonely individuals."]]>
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        <guid>http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/is-facebook-making-us-lonely/8930/</guid>
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        <title>The Strange Days and Surprising Afterlife of a Legendary Operating System</title>
        <link>http://techland.time.com/2012/04/02/25-years-of-ibms-os2-the-birth-death-and-afterlife-of-a-legendary-operating-system/</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:05:45 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Who knew? Apparently IBM's ostensibly defunct operating system OS/2 is still very much alive]]>
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        <guid>http://techland.time.com/2012/04/02/25-years-of-ibms-os2-the-birth-death-and-afterlife-of-a-legendary-operating-system/</guid>
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        <title>How We Will Read</title>
        <link>http://blog.findings.com/post/20527246081/how-we-will-read-clay-shirky?a034c7a0</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:33:02 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA["Being bored is a kind of diagnostic for the gap between what you might be interested in and your current environment."]]>
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        <guid>http://blog.findings.com/post/20527246081/how-we-will-read-clay-shirky?a034c7a0</guid>
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        <title>Game of her life</title>
        <link>http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5965666</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:09:21 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[A truly amazing story of a teenage girl from a slum in Uganda who is, of all things, a chess prodigy. Highly recommended.]]>
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        <guid>http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5965666</guid>
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        <title>I am very real</title>
        <link>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-am-very-real.html</link>
        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:55:25 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Just-so letter that Kurt Vonnegut wrote to the head of the school board that burned his books.]]>
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        <guid>http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/i-am-very-real.html</guid>
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        <title>We Need A Private Mode For The Whole Internet</title>
        <link>http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbuchanan/we-need-a-private-mode-for-the-whole-internet</link>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:40:49 EST</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA["There's a reason every stage has a curtain." An argument in favor of not sharing everything all the time.]]>
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        <guid>http://www.buzzfeed.com/mattbuchanan/we-need-a-private-mode-for-the-whole-internet</guid>
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