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	<description>In the Army now</description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Time Sink</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2008/11/18/todays-time-sink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has to be the greatest thing I&#8217;ll see all day. That&#8217;s pretty sad, actually. Of course, I feel better after watching it again. [Thanks Laughing Squid]]]></description>
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		<title>Crazytown</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2008/05/08/crazytown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our declining culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to crazy town. Population: These Guys Seriously? I&#8217;m pretty sure that &#8220;Paulville&#8221; is founding the same way that most anti-government militias start: going &#8220;off the grid&#8221;, forming their own currency (which, of course, is of no value), not being &#8220;forced to do or pay for other people&#8217;s life styles you may not agree with.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrex: &#8220;We&#8217;re no worse than the competition&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2008/05/07/celebrex-were-no-worse-than-the-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 04:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrex, the NSAID pain reliever that was vilified in media years ago, is back with a new ad campaign.  It&#8217;s been on the air for a while, but I&#8217;m finally irritated enough to comment on the ad. There are three major problems with this ad: The outlines of the drawings are made from disclaimers and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Lost</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2008/04/01/rocky-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton today stated that &#8220;When it comes to finishing a fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit.&#8221; I would like to point out that in the movie Rocky, he lost. [From BBC NEWS &#124; World &#124; Americas &#124; Clinton will fight 'like Rocky']]]></description>
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		<title>Ceiling Cat</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2008/03/18/ceiling-cat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I&#8217;ve got a ceiling cat of my own! Make one of your own here!]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Primary Results</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2008/01/30/florida-primary-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2008/01/30/florida-primary-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<title>Biggest Private Jet Award</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2007/11/12/biggest-private-jet-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Le Monde is reporting that, according to an Airbus communication, Saudi Prince Al-Walid bin Talal is the owner of a private A380, named the &#8220;Flying Palace&#8221;. [From Le Monde.fr : Le prince Al-Walid est l'acheteur de l'A380 "privé"] A380, Airbus, Aviation]]></description>
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		<title>Why Does This Work?</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/11/19/why-does-this-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2006 04:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC is reporting that internet scams from Nigeria are costing the UK billions of pounds. How in the world is it possible that this still works? I&#8217;ve never even seen one of scam letters before. How exactly does all this work? &#8220;Dear Sir: I don&#8217;t know you, and you don&#8217;t know me. But if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Disclaimer for the Utterly Dense</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/09/24/legal-disclaimer-for-the-utterly-dense/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/09/24/legal-disclaimer-for-the-utterly-dense/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading the back of my bag of edamame this morning when I noticed something very peculiar. Edamame, for those who don&#8217;t know, is simply blanched soybeans. At the bottom of the ingredients list (Ingredients: Soybeans) was an allergy disclaimer. This is what it said: WARNING: PRODUCT MAY CONTAIN SOY INGREDIENTS. You can&#8217;t be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better than Professional Responsibility&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/06/21/better-than-professional-responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/06/21/better-than-professional-responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jun 2006 06:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A classmate of mine sent me a link to this site during class today. It was a struggle to keep from laughing out loud. Oddly enough, many of my classmates were supporting the same ideas as this firm, I suspect without ever having seen the site. Hmm&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Broken: This Is Broken</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/05/01/broken-this-is-broken/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/05/01/broken-this-is-broken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2006 17:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The website This is Broken seems to suffer from one flaw: it, too, is broken. The site is dedicated to those things that &#8220;just don&#8217;t seem right&#8221; and that are poorly designed. The problem is that most of the submissions on the website are not terribly broken; rather, the submissions are broken because somebody is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LED Throwies</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/04/27/led-throwies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pointless]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why?]]></description>
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		<title>Spelling Counts&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/04/20/spelling-counts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/04/20/spelling-counts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pointless]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;especially in cryptography. Apparently, the sculpture Kryptos, which sits ominously in the center of the CIA complex, has a typo. The Wikipedia article above gives a good summary of the sculpture. To summarize: Kryptos consists of four sections of code. Three of these sections have been solved, but the fourth section has, to date, eluded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art from Crap</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/04/19/art-from-crap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/04/19/art-from-crap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Apr 2006 22:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my walk home today, I passed by a restaurant I wanted to try out. I thought the building was neat, so I snapped a picture with my camera phone. When I got back home and looked at the photo, I noticed it looked like crap: I&#8217;m not sure what I saw, but something caught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goths &#8216;more likely to self-harm&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/04/13/bbc-news-health-goths-more-likely-to-self-harm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ndmckinney.net/2006/04/13/bbc-news-health-goths-more-likely-to-self-harm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2006 04:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Our declining culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC NEWS &#124; Health &#124; Goths &#8216;more likely to self-harm&#8217; Duh.]]></description>
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