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	<title>Original Cin</title>
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	<description>Beyond Naughty and Nice</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>&#8220;Sunny Came Home&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/23/sunny-came-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:09:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently treating myself to a song a week from Amazon MP3 for progress on an important and time-sensitive project. The song that I downloaded this week was &#8220;Sunny Came Home&#8221;
I wasn&#8217;t initially sure who sings this song (Shawn Colvin), so I searched for it and found a video on YouTube. I&#8217;ve been meaning to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FLYING Union-Built Energy Efficient Cars!</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/20/obama-flying-union-built-energy-efficient-cars/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/20/obama-flying-union-built-energy-efficient-cars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[2008 election]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If it sounds too good to be true&#8230; not that I would necessarily call something that creates unemployment &#8220;good&#8221;.
Obama sounds populist themes in Virginia bus tour - Yahoo News
By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
MARTINSVILLE, Va. - Democrat Barack Obama is sounding tough populist themes on the campaign trail, pledging to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jevons and Seth Godin</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/13/jevons-and-seth-godin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jevons Paradox, anyone?
A simple example: cost and speed pressure means that when you get your car serviced, it&#8217;s unlikely you&#8217;ll be greeted by the mechanic himself, wiping his hands on a greasy rag, telling you exactly what he did to your car. Instead, you&#8217;ll get a difficult to decipher printout.
Why not use the technology to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the Hang of Haxe</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/12/getting-the-hang-of-haxe/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/12/getting-the-hang-of-haxe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not a complete game; it&#8217;s just an animation as it is. But it&#8217;s not bad considering I knew virtually nothing about Haxe or Actionscript just yesterday (Ok, I knew Actionscript was a JS varient&#8230;)


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		<title>Shock and Horror: Capitalism Online</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/08/shock-and-horror-capitalism-online/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/08/shock-and-horror-capitalism-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 02:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been doing some research on Flash games, and found someone with a lot of sense on the subject, but he doesn&#8217;t know much about capitalism:
Capitalism: Some people pointed their finger at me saying I am doing “capitalism”. Let me explain one thing: monetizing a Flash game is not capitalism. It’s almost an utopy that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spoony odds?</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/06/spoony-odds/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/06/spoony-odds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Silly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The word of the day? Spoony. The band website I just happened to be looking at in another browser tab when I found out? The Spoony Bards.

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		<title>FanCruft Facelift</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/02/fancruft-facelif/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/08/02/fancruft-facelif/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[design (visual style)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[FanCruft, my anime website, has just gotten a much-needed facelift. Here are before and after pictures:

When I first made Fancruft, I wanted to make it look good even in Internet Explorer 5 running on a fairly low-resolution screen (640&#215;480). Many &#8220;Web 2.0&#8243; concepts were new; RFC4627 was published just earlier that year. People were still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mutual Funds</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/29/mutual-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My roommate and I were talking about this topic - The Motley Fool on &#8220;What&#8217;s Wrong With Mutual Funds?&#8220;:
Here&#8217;s our oft-repeated fact that you should get through your head: The average actively managed stock mutual fund returns approximately 2% less per year to its shareholders than the stock market returns in general. That means that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Skeptical Optimist on Energy Policy</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/29/the-skeptical-optimist-on-energy-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/29/the-skeptical-optimist-on-energy-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[2008 election]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Skeptical Optimist takes a humorous look at energy policy:
Q: But to encourage entrepreneurs, scientists, and companies to get moving a lot faster towards that superbattery breakthrough, the government will need to set up some kind of new incentive, won’t it?
A: Of course; I’ve been trying to tell you all along that government energy policy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Government and Charlie Brown</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/27/the-government-and-charlie-brown/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/27/the-government-and-charlie-brown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Predictions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Quotomatic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Arnold Kling writes on Econlog:
&#8230;like Charlie Brown getting ready to kick a football, we seem to have an infinite capacity to believe that it will be different this time. We think that the next top-down design introduced by government will work fine, it will never degrade, and we won&#8217;t find ourselves ten or twenty years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Made Of Division</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/26/mod/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/26/mod/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[PHP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was a bit surprised earlier this week to find out that Omegapaladin (who is lightyears ahead of me in l33t math skillz) hadn&#8217;t heard of the concept of the modulo before. There&#8217;s a lot of unfortunate nitty-gritty problems about mod, but it&#8217;s a very useful operation. I wrote a small program in PHP that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun With Random Numbers</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/22/fun-with-random-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/22/fun-with-random-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My roommate and I were discussing pseudorandom number generators. Since I&#8217;m not particularly good at math, he stumped me for a while by asking how a sequence of numbers from a generator compares to real random numbers (like, for instance, numbers generated from radioactive decay).
It turns out that my roommate could have stumped someone with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Googletastic</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/19/googletastic/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/19/googletastic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[design (visual style)]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nic.dreamhost.com/?p=140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the neat things about Google: They often work to subtly improve their service, and when they do, they often integrate the improvement so seamlessly into their existing site that you can easily miss it. This is a screenshot from the other day. I&#8217;ve entered the (domain) name of a website, and Google has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hello World Video</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/19/hello-world-video/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/19/hello-world-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>Hello Love</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/17/hello-love/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/17/hello-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Silly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll need Love to play this trippy Hello World animation.
Hello World
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		<title>Japan, Eat A Hand</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/15/japan-eat-a-hand/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/15/japan-eat-a-hand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now, for the explanation of the previous post.
I managed to get the buffering trick in XUL to work: it is possible to use a deck of stacks in XUL for animation. HOWEVER, doing so has a really, really high CPU cost, to the extent that just flipping back and forth between two images at 30fps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LOVE?! Kitten!? WTF?!!!</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/15/love/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/15/love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Create It]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Role Playing Games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Silly]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nic.dreamhost.com/?p=130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll post the story behind this pic sometime after I wake up &#8220;tomorrow.&#8221; The short version: It&#8217;s a screenshot of a tech demo for a game engine called &#8220;Love&#8221; that I found online.

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		<title>Overcoming Bias: Ask For Help</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/12/overcoming-bias-ask-for-help/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/12/overcoming-bias-ask-for-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[metacognition]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Robin Hanson points to an interesting case of underconfidence on my favorite blog, Overcoming Bias.
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		<title>56 Megabytes of Obama: The Microsoft Bloatware Story</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/11/obama-microsoft-bloatware/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/11/obama-microsoft-bloatware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[2008 election]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was running Windows Update today, and found this gem in the &#8220;Important&#8221; updates:

Just to go over what I&#8217;ve highlighted in the image above: The update is just over 56 MB. It&#8217;s considered an &#8220;Important&#8221; update. And it updates the dictionary used for spellcheck - to add new words to it.
Now, I can see how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progress for Airships?</title>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/06/progress-for-airships/</link>
		<comments>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2008/07/06/progress-for-airships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 06:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nic "RedWord" Smith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Airships]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been more than 70 years since the giant Hindenburg zeppelin exploded in a spectacular fireball over Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 crew members and passengers, abruptly ending an earlier age of airships. But because of new materials and sophisticated means of propulsion, a diverse cast of entrepreneurs is taking another look at the [...]]]></description>
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