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		<title>Emergent storytelling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Byrne on collaborations:

I&#8217;ve done a slew of collaborations over the years &#8211; more and more as time goes by, and they are always slightly different from one another, though there are more similarities than differences. One could say that some of the songs co-written with other members of Talking Heads were also collaborations, so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/15/emergent-storytelling/</link>
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		<title>Wind power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Striking photographs of windfarms.
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		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/15/wind-power/</link>
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		<title>Gargamel took them all&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kieran Healy explores Chatroulette: Show me ur books.
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		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/14/gargamel-took-them-all/</link>
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		<title>Nixon speaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten great moments with Mr. Nixon:

1. On thinking big (April 25, 1972)
Nixon: I still think we ought to take the North Vietnamese dikes out now. Will that drown people?
Kissinger: About two hundred thousand people.
Nixon: No, no, no, I&#8217;d rather use the nuclear bomb. Have you got that, Henry?
Kissinger: That, I think, would just be too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/14/nixon-speaks/</link>
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		<title>Economics of Sainthood</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Economics of Sainthood (a preliminary investigation):

1. Introduction
Saint-making has been a major activity of the Catholic Church for centuries. The pace of sanctifications has picked up noticeably in the last several decades under the last two popes, John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Our goal is to apply social-science reasoning to understand the Church&#8217;s choices on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/14/economics-of-sainthood/</link>
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		<title>German (weather) engineering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart has a ventilation system capable of creating an artificial tornado inside the building.
What could possibly go wrong?
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		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/13/german-weather-engineering/</link>
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		<title>Choosing charts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A chart on How to Choose Chart Types.

[Via swissmiss]
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		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/13/choosing-charts/</link>
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		<title>A side order of Type Two diabetes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Brooker&#8217;s latest Screen Burn column about a show called Man V Food has the best closing paragraph I&#8217;ve read in a long time.1
As a bonus, reading Brooker&#8217;s column this week introduced me to this bit of folklore, which in turn inspired Wes Craven to come up with this. So at least I&#8217;ve learned something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/13/a-side-order-of-type-two-diabetes/</link>
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		<title>MeFi comment of the week</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From a thread about the trend for more and more film and TV actresses to resort to plastic surgery and botox:

On the bright side, it&#8217;s nice to know that folks are doing their best to bridge the Uncanny Valley from both ends at once.
  posted by The Winsome Parker Lewis at 3:25 PM on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/12/mefi-comment-of-the-week/</link>
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		<title>Doomed! We&#8217;re all doomed!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a million years or so the solar system is in for a close encounter:

The original Hipparcos data showed that an orange dwarf star called Gliese 710 is heading our way and will arrive sometime within the next 1.5 million years.
[...]
What the new data has allowed Bobylev to do is calculate the probability of Gliese [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/12/doomed-were-all-doomed/</link>
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		<title>/most/resistance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rob Foster on /the/path/of/most/resistance:

  Unfortunately for the average person, the file system is so complex that everything outside of the desktop and the documents folder appears to be a vast labyrinth which most likely hides booby traps and minotaurs.

If your computer is being used to carry out a relatively limited set of activities, hiding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/11/mostresistance/</link>
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		<title>Handlebars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doctor Who: Handlebars. A classy fanvid tribute to Ten.

[Via MeFi user rdc, posting to this MetaFilter thread]
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		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/11/handlebars/</link>
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		<title>Nose scanning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fingerprints? DNA? Iris scanning? Old news. Nose scanning is the wave of the future:

[Bath University...] researchers scanned noses in 3D and characterised them by tip, ridge profile and the nasion, or area between the eyes.
They found 6 main nose types: Roman, Greek, Nubian, hawk, snub and turn-up.
Since they are hard to conceal, the study says, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/10/nose-scanning/</link>
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		<title>Raw eggs, brandy, and strychnine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The marathon at the 1904 Olympic games at St Louis must give hope to the organisers of London&#8217;s 2012 Games. No matter how much they cock things up, they&#8217;ll never surpass St Louis:

  The 1904 Olympics were such a farce that the Olympic Committee were somewhat forced to hold an interim games only 2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/09/raw-eggs-brandy-and-strychnine/</link>
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		<title>Beware of the leopard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You need a paper licence to link to the Royal Mail website. You might think the post title says it all. Believe me, you need to follow the link: it&#8217;s even worse than it sounds.
I&#8217;m only surprised they don&#8217;t keep the paperwork in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/09/beware-of-the-leopard/</link>
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		<title>Closing down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[YouTube Closes Down For The Night. Strangely soothing, that music&#8230;

[Via Qwghlm]
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		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/09/closing-down/</link>
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		<title>Belly Hill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gobekli Tepe might conceivably be the site of the world&#8217;s first temple:

  Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey, Klaus Schmidt has made one of the most startling archaeological discoveries of our time: massive carved stones about 11,000 years old, crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had not yet developed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/07/belly-hill/</link>
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		<title>Mean Disney Girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mean Disney Girls.

[Via MetaFilter]
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		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/06/mean-disney-girls/</link>
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		<title>Time to close your account?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not the sort of message you want to see when you walk up to an ATM.
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		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/06/time-to-close-your-account/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;I bet none of these people ever thought they&#8217;d be in an Oscar nominated movie&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for the Oscars: Honest movie titles.

[Via Orbyn]
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		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/06/i-bet-none-of-these-people-ever-thought-theyd-be-in-an-oscar-nominated-movie/</link>
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		<title>Light cone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What self-respecting geek could resist an RSS feed notifying you every time another star falls within your light cone?

  72 Herculis is 46.9 light years from Earth. It was enveloped by your light cone 2 months ago.

Nu-2 Lupi, here I come&#8230;

[Via James Nicoll]
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		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/05/light-cone/</link>
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		<title>URLs and URIs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rafe Colburn reflects on the lessons of the ReadWriteWeb/Facebook mixup:

  For those of us who have completely internalized URLs, it&#8217;s hard to empathize with people who see getting to Web sites as a series of steps they follow. At this point it doesn&#8217;t matter whether people access all the Web sites they use through [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/02/urls-and-uris/</link>
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		<title>Do not mess with Kathryn Sullivan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Philip Bond&#8217;s illustrations of female astronauts are quite delightful.

[Via MetaFilter]
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		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/01/do-not-mess-with-kathryn-sullivan/</link>
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		<title>The BBC-O-Gram</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC-O-Gram is pretty and quite informative, but would be much improved if it didn&#8217;t mix income and expenditure indiscriminately.
If the same chart must be used to show both, it would be better to organise the data around an1 axis, with income stacked up on one side of the axis and expenditure on the other. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/03/01/the-bbc-o-gram/</link>
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		<title>75 vampires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Margot Adler explores the roots of the current craze for vampire stories:

A vampire&#8217;s near-immortality is probably why I ended up reading 75 vampire novels. I&#8217;d been caring for a seriously ill loved one, and as a result, I had been spending a lot of time thinking deeply about issues of mortality. I had also occasionally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://soreeyes.org/archive/2010/02/28/75-vampires/</link>
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