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	<description>For The World Is Strange</description>
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		<title>Weird&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kind of weird: my diet log for yesterday shows that, without intending to, I ate foods in order of descending calorie count. There are 3.6 million different ways I could have eaten the exact same stuff!
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		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/11/19/weird/</link>
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		<title>Mummies, Heart Disease, Protein Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mummies Had Heart Disease, Too on WebMD.
This story has been making the rounds, but incredibly, it&#8217;s not news at all. The fact that ancient Egyptians had heart disease has a whole chapter dedicated to it in Protein Power (I believe I read the 1996 edition, so this has been known for at least thirteen years).
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		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/11/17/mummies-heart-disease-protein-power/</link>
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		<title>Political Science Defunding Vote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I originally wanted to post this as a comment to this post at Marginal Revolution, but for some reason TypePad&#8217;s not letting me:
The chart is terrible mostly because (I suspect) the &#8220;X-axis&#8221; is mislabeled &#8212; it should say &#8220;economic issues&#8221; rather than &#8220;liberal-conservative,&#8221; which is also loaded with social policy meaning. It doesn&#8217;t help that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/11/07/political-science-defunding-vote/</link>
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		<title>Device</title>
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		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/11/06/device/</link>
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		<title>What next, a fat-free avocado?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Went to buy avocados at the grocery store. Next to the normal avocados, they had, I kid you not, low-fat avocados. What is the world coming to that someone would make such a thing?
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		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/10/26/what-next-a-fat-free-avocado/</link>
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		<title>Tanktastic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a tank in Downtown Dekalb.
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		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/10/13/tanktastic/</link>
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		<title>Gah&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish I could receive an award based on what was expected of me. With incentives like that, I suppose I&#8217;d promise the moon.
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		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/10/09/gah/</link>
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		<title>Not Obama&#8217;s Popularity</title>
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Another wonderful chart. I&#8217;m still losing weight keeping an eye on my carbs.
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		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/10/03/not-obamas-popularity/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts and Quotes: Fate gave to man the&#8230; &#8211; Forbes.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.
&#8211; Ludwig van Beethoven
via Thoughts and Quotes: Fate gave to man the&#8230; &#8211; Forbes.com.
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		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/10/03/thoughts-and-quotes-fate-gave-to-man-the-forbes-com/</link>
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		<title>Lots of Interesting Things from The AP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something&#8217;s rotten in Oklahoma City:
Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.
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&#8220;Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/27/lots-of-interesting-things-from-the-ap/</link>
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		<title>CRON-O-Meter: The Diet Tracker I&#8217;ve Been Looking For?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Found CRON-O-Meter, a diet tracking program the other day, and so far I like it. It gives me the instant feedback on my diet that I like so much, without most of the annoyances of NutritionData.
The program uses the same USDA database that everyone else under the sun seems to use, but allows adding new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/27/cron-o-meter-the-diet-tracker-ive-been-looking-for/</link>
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		<title>Why American Healthcare is Headed for Collapse &#8211; Life Extension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Government dietary guidelines have been ass-backwards for at least a good portion of the population.  Medicare pays several times what it should for almost everything and anything. The FDA kills - yes, kills -- by driving up the cost of the producing drugs and making new treatments unavailable. But the people want more government involvement in healthcare, and by golly, that's what they're going to get, sooner or later, one way or another.]]></description>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/25/why-american-healthcare-is-headed-for-collapse-life-extension/</link>
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		<title>Politics of Calories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last time, I talked about the idea that increasing carbohydrate consumption is a huge force behind increasing obesity. The jury, in all honesty, is still out, and Taubes says as much.  General philosophies that you can&#8217;t prove a negative be damned, I think we can be pretty sure at this point that low-fat diets don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/17/politics-of-calories/</link>
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		<title>Senate plan to create winners and losers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This craziness has to have been put forth specifically to make everything else look good.]]></description>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/14/senate-plan-to-create-winners-and-losers/</link>
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		<title>Not-Blog-Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Me and my friends occasionally joke about an item being &#8220;not-something&#8221;, especially in Exalted. Infallible messenger is a &#8220;not-cell-phone&#8221;, that fire powder stuff is &#8220;not-gunpowder&#8221; and so on and not-so-forth. We&#8217;ve been known to call various politicians &#8220;Not-Daley.&#8221; So my jaw hit the floor when I found out that &#8220;Not/Starch&#8221;, &#8220;Not/Sugar&#8221;, and &#8220;Not/Cereal&#8221; are all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/14/not-blog-post/</link>
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		<title>Cheaper Health Care</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meanwhile, the federal government made it cheaper for us to eat sugar and starch through massive grain subsidies. As the old farmer told the stars of King Corn, “You couldn’t make any money growing corn if not for the government payments.” Those government payments are the reason we feed cattle corn instead of letting them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/12/cheaper-health-care/</link>
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		<title>Strange PHP Code I wrote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this to deal with the weird, weird way that PHP handles variable variables and arrays:
eval (&#8220;\$item_to_make = &#38;$item_to_make;&#8221;);
I think it&#8217;s the ugliest thing I&#8217;ve ever written.
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		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/11/strange-php-code-i-wrote/</link>
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		<title>The Impact of Unconscious Communication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eleven-time World Series of Poker champion Phil Hellmuth wears a hat and sunglasses when he plays poker. He does it to disguise his reactions from the other players, which might seem surprising. One would think that a man who can win 11 championships and more than $6 million over 18 years would be able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/10/the-impact-of-unconscious-communication/</link>
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		<title>Nickleback&#8217;s &#8220;Last Day&#8221; Describes Immortal Virtues Better Than Impending Doom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If Today Was Your Last Day&#8221; offers better advice to an immortal than to someone who will die tomorrow. Here are some of the things in the song that would make more sense to do if you had thousands of years or longer rather than just one days left:
&#8220;Leave no stone unturned&#8230;.try to take the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/08/nickleback-last-day-describes-immortal-virtues-better-than-impending-doom/</link>
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		<title>Obama Trying for a Stealth Tax Hike?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m struggling to understand the ramifications of this; except that it seems that the Obama administration may be trying for a weird, roundabout tax increase, and through sheer incompetence didn&#8217;t hide it very well:
The new federal steps, which do not require congressional action, include:
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Allowing people to check a box on their federal tax returns asking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nic.dreamhost.com/2009/09/05/obama-trying-for-a-stealth-tax-hike/</link>
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