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	<title>A Personal Pantagraph &#187; Society</title>
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	<description>Prognostications, Epiphanies, and Banalities</description>
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		<title>The Quest for Saint Aquin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How could we get it more wrong!  Recently, I&#8217;ve been reading or rereading classic science fiction stories.  And I ran into The Quest for Saint Aquin, a short story by Anthony Boucher that first appeared in 1951.  Although not evident at first, the story has all to do with robots and how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Digital Information</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denvention 3, the 66th World Science Fiction Convention, featured a panel by librarians discussing the future of libraries.  This was an eye-opening panel.  Who would have thought librarians could be so passionate?  And that they had such large axes to grind against school administrators and local governments.  But what concerns me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Positioning Web</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technologies affect us, what we do, how we think, even how we view ourselves.  Each new technology brings with it change, and with the change there are winners and losers.
Transportation, for example, affects the shape and growth of cities.  Many businesses are located just off a freeway exit, and, judging from the billboards, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Achilles&#8217; Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Achilles got it wrong.  As the son of Thetis, a goddess of the sea, Achilles is given an important choice: live a short and glorious life, to be remembered by man for thousands of years, or a long and happy life, to be remembered only by his children and grandchildren.  Achilles wavered at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Replacement Artists</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 18:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Seattle this summer, we saw an advertisement for a Cheetah Girls concert.  They were playing the week immediately after we were to leave for home.  My daughter was distraught, but I promised her the Cheetah Girls would undoubtedly be coming closer to home, and when they did I would take her.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Got a Calculator?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago we stopped by Hastings to rent some videos.  As we were checking out, the clerk on the counter next to us yelled out &#8220;What&#8217;s 30% of 40?&#8221;  My wife looks at me strangely, as if suspicious that it&#8217;s a trick question, and answers &#8220;12&#8230;.&#8221;

As strange as it seems, this really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the Revolution Comes&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always thought the first people to be lined against a wall and shot when the revolution came would turn out to be the lawyers.  I mean, why go through all the trouble of revolting if you can&#8217;t get rid of a lawyer or two.  But lately I&#8217;ve had second doubts.  Lawyers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Long Tail</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:29:40 +0000</pubDate>
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What is the best song ever written?  With some friends and a generous amount of alcohol, you can probably narrow the list down to a few and eventually come up with a good candidate (My vote: Tush by ZZ Top.)  If your friends are all of the same general age and background, chances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiered Pricing in the Internet Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel Spolsky of Joel of Software fame wrote a recent article on tiered pricing at the iTunes Music Store (iTMS).  His thesis is that record companies want to force iTMS to institute tiered pricing not to raise additional revenue, but to use the different prices as a signal of quality.  If a song [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Internet as an Antidote to Walmart</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walmart has a profound effect on America:  It helps to keep prices low, it provides an outlet for foreign goods, it employs people, and it bankrupts small retailers in the communities it enters.  Understandably Walmart has been getting a bad wrap from some corners.  I disagree with much of what is said [...]]]></description>
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