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		<title>Doorways [1]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of these are reprised but what the heck:]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/24/doorways-1/</link>
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		<title>This is the best we can produce?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the Orphanage now.]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/24/this-is-the-best-we-can-produce/</link>
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		<title>When will people wake up to what JPM is?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At 19:23: &#8220;Once we get this criminal JP Morgan out of the picture.&#8221; &#8220;That, I think&#8217;s a lot of people&#8217;s hope&#8221; [she should stick to her day job rather than attempt to articulate or perhaps she should seek an education] You&#8217;re not going to get JPM &#8220;out of the picture&#8221; &#8211; ever. Let&#8217;s go over [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/24/when-will-people-wake-up-to-what-jpm-is/</link>
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		<title>Dearieme&#8217;s Fats Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fats as the well travelled musician: Fats as a party animal: Fats and his organ (ooh, missus!):]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/23/deariemes-fats-wednesday/</link>
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		<title>Helvetica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vid rushed to me by Chuckles, with the tagline*: &#8220;Etaoin Shrdlus&#8217;s greatest work&#8221;: Wiki goes on about Helvetica: Helvetica is a widely used sans-serif typeface developed in 1957 by Swiss typeface designer Max Miedinger with Eduard Hoffmann.[1] The aim of the new design was to create a neutral typeface that had great clarity, no intrinsic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/23/helvetica/</link>
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		<title>8th grade education then and now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What it took to get an 8th grade education in 1895&#8230; &#160; Remember when grandparents and great-grandparents stated that they only had an 8th grade education? Well, check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895? This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina , Kansas , USA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/23/8th-grade-education-then-and-now/</link>
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		<title>My new car&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
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		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/23/my-new-car/</link>
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		<title>Why is there no outcry?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The answer is that there is an outcry but it&#8217;s being made fun of &#8230; by us. In any full-on, massive war, such as Stalingrad in the Great Patriotic War, it was a question of where the line was drawn.  Would it be Stalingrad or Gorky or Moscow or what?  City by city falls, each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/23/why-is-there-no-outcry/</link>
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		<title>Four more years of Michelle Soetoro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Caller waxing lyrical: #  Michelle Obama said in 2009 that she &#8220;wanted to rip Bill Clinton&#8217;s eyes out&#8221; to the New Yorker and the press ignored it. #  Michelle Obama was also allegedly jealous of Oprah’s relationships with Barack. In fact, Michelle was so paranoid of all the women working near her husband [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/22/four-more-years-of-michelle-soetoro/</link>
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		<title>Tis the mobbe again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; it was also nice to see the teenager [0:46] unplug his earbuds!!]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/22/tis-the-mobbe-again/</link>
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		<title>Copyright is outdated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dean Baker&#8217;s latest column about how The Pirate Party has got it right on copyright: Near the top of the list of the Pirate Party&#8217;s demons is copyright protection, and rightly so. Copyright protection is an antiquated relic of the late Middle Ages that has no place in the digital era. It is debatable whether [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/22/copyright-is-outdated/</link>
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		<title>Minute waltz in 48 seconds</title>
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		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/21/minute-waltz-in-48-seconds/</link>
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		<title>Walk towards the light</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Picdump]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/21/walk-towards-the-light/</link>
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		<title>Smug Jamie does the JPM thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some choice quotes from the commentaries: In response to a question during J.P. Morgan’s April 13th quarterly earnings conference call, Mr. Dimon made his regrettable comment, “It’s a complete tempest in a teapot. Every bank has a major portfolio. In those portfolios you make investments that you think are wise, that offset your exposures.” And [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/21/smug-jamie/</link>
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		<title>Coffee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With my 20 a day habit, I&#8217;ll be 110 before I go.]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/21/coffee-2/</link>
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		<title>Cracks are appearing in the new paradigm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This came by email: A young man hired by a supermarket reported for his first day of work. The manager greeted him with a warm handshake and a smile, gave him a broom and said, &#8220;Your first job will be to sweep out the store.&#8221; &#8220;But I&#8217;m a college graduate!!&#8221; the young man replied indignantly. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/21/cracks-are-appearing/</link>
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		<title>Liszting to Chopin</title>
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		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/20/liszting-to-chopin/</link>
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		<title>Ben Ainslie wins again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a joint post with Wiggia. The triple Olympic gold medallist admitted that of his previous Finn Gold Cup victories, this was the sweetest of them all for having won it on his home waters in Cornwall. “This is by far and away the best because I grew up and learned to sail here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/20/ben-ainslie-wins-again/</link>
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		<title>PoMo or PC &#8211; which will kill us first?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a wonderful Russian word &#8211; u&#8217;zhas [stress the 'u', more like 'oo'] &#8211; which means &#8216;awful&#8217;. It&#8217;s more than a literal translation, being one of two words of choice whenever one wishes to express disgust in a short, pithy way. The other word is kosh&#8217;mar [stress the kosh, more like 'lush'] &#8211; which means [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/20/pomo-or-pc-which-will-kill-us-first/</link>
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		<title>Is sex work or play?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barry wonders if having sex on the Sabbath is a sin because he is not sure if sex is work or play. So Barry first of all goes to a Catholic priest and asks for his opinion on this question. After consulting the Bible, the priest says, &#8220;My son, after an exhaustive search, I am [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/20/is-sex-work-or-play/</link>
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		<title>Congrats, Chelsea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whatever you think of them and Abramovwhateverhisnameis, this was a sterling effort:]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/20/congrats-chelsea/</link>
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		<title>Modern Art at its best.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This, my latest (and best?) blog post, has been inspired by the current exhibition at The Hayward Gallery in London. As you read on do not forget to use your imagination to enhance your enjoyment of this deeply profound philosophical work- You really loved that piece, didn&#8217;t you. One of my best, for sure. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/20/modern-art-at-its-best/</link>
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		<title>Google/Blogger/WordPress&#8217;s kindergarten coders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I quoted a guy on the awfulness of the new Gmail. Twilight came in, quite rightly, with the awfulness of Blogger: Blogger (linked to Google) is also parading a new interface and causing many bloggers to threaten emigration to WordPress. I understand that Google is trying to create a uniform “look” to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/19/googlebloggerwordpresss-kindergarten-coders/</link>
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		<title>Sublime daftness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Were you as daft as them?]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/19/sublime-daftness/</link>
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		<title>Do you Leica great camera?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Which? La Sardina — St. Tropez Fontanette or the Leica M Monochrome ? I want two of each &#8230; there’s something about a B&#038;W photograph shot through a Leica lens that’s very special. As an aside, I’ve been told – but never confirmed &#8211; that it is the sand used for making the glass, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/19/do-you-leica-great-camera/</link>
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		<title>Chess news rushed to you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Chessalee and Chuckles: the World Chess Championships: After four games of the World Chess Championship match in Moscow, which began on Friday, Viswanathan Anand, the titleholder, and his challenger, Boris Gelfand, have been unable to make a dent in each other. All four games have been draws, and there has been little drama, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/19/chess-news-rushed-to-you/</link>
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		<title>Electrickery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I cheated slightly when I commented here Flown into Bilbao twice and both times the plane was struck by lightning just as we were landing. Another strike came when flying from the civilised end of this island down to London and the very laconic Scottish first officer said ach, nae bother oor planes are designed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/19/electrickery/</link>
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		<title>One million new climate jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[… the mind boggles … the solution to the UK economic crisis, and the way to end the persistent nuisance of the climate inconsiderately changing all the time, is to add a million “secure, flexible, permanent” union workers building wind farms to the UK government’s permanent welfare rolls.These folks would be funny if they weren’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/19/one-million-new-climate-jobs/</link>
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		<title>Desire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Desire is a trap. Lustful desire makes pigs of people, and slaves of pigs. One single word makes possible all civilisation. It&#8217;s a small word, a magic word, yet it transforms, frees everyone. You must whisper it to yourself. The word is &#8216;no&#8217;.&#8221; [Monkey]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/18/desire/</link>
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		<title>The awful new g-mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, well, well &#8211; I thought I was the only one who hated it: It looks like Google has finally pulled the plug on the old GMail UI. As far as I can tell, this redesign is just change for the sake of change. I can’t see a single improvement! But I can spot three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nourishingobscurity.com/2012/05/18/the-awful-new-g-mail/</link>
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