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		<description>Links from Michal Migurski's notebook, listening post, and soapbox.</description>
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		<dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
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            <title>Cyclists Take to L.A. Freeways</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-15T14:30:37-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["...when your freeways are gridlocked, bikes are better. About 30 cyclists rode onto  the Santa Monica Freeway (I-10) at the height of Friday's rush-hour commute and went east to the San Diego Freeway (I-405), where they rode north to the Santa Monica Boulevard exit, moving easily through traffic."]]>
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            <link>http://www.designagainstcrime.com/index.php?q=introduction</link>
            <title>Design Against Crime</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-14T18:37:46-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Seems to be a bunch of poka-yokes to prevent bags and such from being stolen. Crime prevention through design or lipstick on a pig?]]>
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            <title>Control Theory</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-14T16:26:05-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Two totally separate references to this field in one day, from web operations to people management. "Control theory is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering and mathematics, that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems."]]>
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            <title>Re-evaluating Gill Sans</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-14T13:11:00-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["As the preferred typeface of British establishments (the Railways, the Church, the BBC and Penguin Books), Gill Sans is part of the British visual heritage just like the Union Jack and the safety pin.
...
So to pick an argument with something that is akin to a typographic national monument might appear unwise; it is so very much 'ours'. But it is a flawed masterpiece. How flawed? Well, monumentally flawed, in fact."]]>
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            <title>Mud Stencils</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-14T12:21:06-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["Jesse Graves stencils with mud. It washes off and is a lot less toxic than spraypaint. It also makes a perfect medium for writing about farming or the environment."]]>
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            <title>Eric Rodenbeck, Map Fetishist</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-14T10:24:08-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Inquirer interview with Eric about Stamen.]]>
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            <link>http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/05/dynamic-languages-strike-back.html</link>
            <title>Dynamic Languages Strike Back</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-13T10:06:39-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Steve Yegge: "So these tricks I'm telling you about, they're just the beginning of it. And if we come out of this talk with one thing, it's that it's cool to optimize dynamic languages again! 'Cool' in the sense of getting venture funding, right? You know, and research grants... 'Cool' in the sense of making meaningful differences to all those people writing Super Mario clones in JavaScript."]]>
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            <title>Grasping Social Patterns</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-12T18:03:54-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Christian Crumlish's excellent talk slides on patterns and anti-patterns in social software.]]>
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            <title>Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-11T18:26:59-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["Mass transit systems around the country are seeing standing-room-only crowds on bus lines where seats were once easy to come by. Parking lots at many bus and light rail stations are suddenly overflowing..."]]>
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            <title>Trac GitPlugin</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-10T10:09:07-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["This is yet another plugin for Trac 0.10/0.11 which enables GIT to be used instead of Subversion for the Trac versioning system backend."]]>
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            <title>Birth Clock</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-09T17:01:06-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["The 'Birth Clock' is a fragile glass object containing a digital clock that is not working; it is designed to help you to come to a decision when you're stuck at a specific point in life. Smash the glass, and the clock will start to work, leaving you with the broken object as a reminder of your dramatic decision."]]>
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            <link>http://www.woebken.net/future_of_money.html</link>
            <title>Chris Woebken: The Future of Money</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-09T10:32:21-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Excellent video prototypes of card-reading hardware for different behaviors. Also melting down an Oyster card.]]>
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            <item rdf:about="http://nat.org/blog/?p=825">
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            <title>Ten Tweetable Scripts</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-09T10:19:34-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Nat Friedman: "a contest to create the best one-line program that would fit inside Twitter's 140-character buffer." Includes /bin/sh mindbenders.]]>
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            <link>http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/09/1528250&amp;from=rss</link>
            <title>The Future of Subversion</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-09T10:10:41-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA[Slashdot thread on the relative merits of centralized vs. distributed revision control. Stamen switched from CVS to SVN a few years ago just to get Trac - what do Git or Mercurial have in this vein?]]>
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            <title>666, The Number of the Brand</title>
            <dc:date>2008-05-09T09:56:17-07:00</dc:date>
            <dc:creator>Michal Migurski</dc:creator>
            <description><![CDATA["Hollywood and centuries of viral marketing have already tainted the equity. Even a person who would never consider themselves a 'Bible Believer' would probably pass on getting '666' applied to their hand or forehead. Being a creatively curious person I decided to spend half an hour and see if I could create a brand logo for Satan."]]>
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