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		<title>The Realistic Color Organ.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a box that does a special thing when you talk to it.

It&#8217;s powered by magic.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a box that does a special thing when you talk to it.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s powered by magic.</p>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve been tagging again.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get to know my one-word descriptions for songs and bands! I&#8217;ve been tagging hell of shit as I listen to it lately so there&#8217;s a complete digital paper trail of breadcrumb-shaped tags describing the horrible crap I&#8217;ve been subjecting myself to lately.
It&#8217;s great. It&#8217;s been great.
Also, the xbox is great. That&#8217;s what my surprise life-ruining [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.last.fm/user/Sarcasmo/tags/">Get to know my one-word descriptions for songs and bands</a>! I&#8217;ve been <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/Sarcasmo/tags/">tagging hell of shit</a> as I listen to it lately so there&#8217;s <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/Sarcasmo/tags/">a complete digital paper trail of breadcrumb-shaped tags</a> describing the horrible crap I&#8217;ve been subjecting myself to lately.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s great. It&#8217;s been great.</p>
<p>Also, the xbox is great. That&#8217;s what my surprise life-ruining baby turned out to be. Check me out on live I&#8217;m the same name as somewhere around here. I am pretty bad at games. </p>
<p>Not that I ever stopped tagging; I just figured I should say it into the darkness. </p>
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		<title>Where the fuck are you part 90: Mass Effect.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 06:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mass Effect is one of those games that changes the way you think about games and what they should do for you and what you should do with them. That&#8217;s where I&#8217;ve been. I didn&#8217;t know I had been waiting for the damn thing my whole life. This shit changes what your mind lets qualify [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_effect">Mass Effect</a> is one of those games that changes the way you think about games and what they should do for you and what you should do with them. That&#8217;s where I&#8217;ve been. I didn&#8217;t know I had been waiting for the damn thing my whole life. This shit changes what your mind lets qualify as epic.</p>
<p>(and basically every single thing to suck about knights&#8230;gone)</p>
<p>I rate it a million stars. That&#8217;s a space joke.</p>
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		<title>Youtube Meta Comment Aggregation.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attention internet: I understand that twitter is funny one-liner land, or whatever you think because that&#8217;s my probably final and determined determination of its purpose. One-liners and links and gratuitous Obama oversupportion. That&#8217;s the twitter answer.
But here&#8217;s the thing. There&#8217;s this site called youtube where I look at a lot of videos, some of which [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Attention internet: I understand that twitter is funny one-liner land, or whatever you think because that&#8217;s my probably final and determined determination of its purpose. One-liners and links and gratuitous Obama oversupportion. That&#8217;s the twitter answer.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s the thing. There&#8217;s this site called youtube where I look at a lot of videos, some of which people put on the internet. They stream; it&#8217;s fucking <em>crazy</em>. Anyways, I talk back to these people because the internet is the land of backtalk and the sharplie-tongue&#8217;d quipz.</p>
<p>Next: youtube recently changed their thing to let you put your most recent comments on your channel page. IN ADDITION, there is now a page where you can view your comments.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile_my_comments?user=sarcasmosis">I hereby submit my youtube comments in reverse chronological order for your perusal</a>. Someone once called it &#8220;so funny&#8221;.</p>
<p>You should turn this feature on if you use youtube, and then throw me a link so I can do chu&#8217;kles t&#8217;our quips. That&#8217;s laughing at our smart response to stupid reality. </p>
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<p>Bonus video because I can&#8217;t talk about youtube without offering a video that explicitly solicits unsolicited solicitations of critical materials (that&#8217;s you commenting about wha&#8217; happen&#8217;d).</p>
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		<title>Is America Addicted to Porn? Serious news.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ABC decided it was an American political emergency to have a seriously straight-faced debate between Ron Jeremy and other people about pornography. It&#8217;s great, but good luck getting the goddamn video to work. Concerning the video player embedded on the ABCNews site which featured these Frontline episode videos, I was quoted in the New York [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>ABC decided it was an American political emergency to have a seriously straight-faced debate between Ron Jeremy and other people about pornography. It&#8217;s great, but good luck getting the goddamn video to work. Concerning the video player embedded on the ABCNews site which featured these Frontline episode videos, I <a href="http://twitter.com/sarcasmosis/statuses/765192157">was quoted in the New York Times</a> as saying:<br />
<blockquote>&#8220;This ABC news embedded video player is the worst thing technology has ever produced. It just plain doesn&#8217;t work. At all. With any browser.&#8221; Holy fuck what a piece of shit. </p>
<p>I hate this thing, and I can&#8217;t believe that it&#8217;s the year 2008 and we are seriously in a desert war and there exist streaming video players on major media outlets owned by ABC that do not work with even the lowest brow of world wide web browser such as Internet Explorer, which most consider the retard idiot&#8217;s baby cousin of browsers.</p>
<p>But god damn is it hilarious to watch a guy that went from a pornography production addiction to god. Porn groupies disguised as neo-religicons. It&#8217;s genius.</p></blockquote>
<p>I am not even going to bother trying to embed it, so here&#8217;s <a href="http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/FaceOff/">a fancy old-fashioned link</a> because no one reads this anyway.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s seriously pretty good. I love watching new-generation Christians squirm. They&#8217;re so soft! It&#8217;s always great to see the germination of an era of lazy psychology <em>and</em> insane religion <strong>combined</strong>. Ron Jeremy basically skull fucks their arguments.</p>
<p>Then the audience bends them over in barely-legal rough college co-ed tradition.</p>
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		<title>Liberal still isn&#8217;t a bad word.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you haven&#8217;t been reminded the past few years (or specifically, since you gave up on everything on November 2, 2004), this little blurb from the kos (by Dan Kurtzman, from his book) is a nice refresher. If you&#8217;re like me, you completely shut off the sound or even mention of bullshit lib/con wars [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In case you haven&#8217;t been reminded the past few years (or specifically, since you gave up on everything on November 2, 2004), <a href="http://bill-in-portland-maine.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/21/83130/5399/996/460724">this little blurb from the kos</a> (by <a href="http://www.fightconservatives.com/">Dan Kurtzman, from his book</a>) is a nice refresher. If you&#8217;re like me, you completely shut off the sound or even mention of bullshit lib/con wars years ago when those assholes stole the country again, effectively destroying what I hoped would be the best decade of my life. Anyway:<br />
<blockquote>Liberals believe in clean air, diplomacy, stem cells, living wages, body armor for our troops, government accountability, and that exercising the right to dissent is the highest form of patriotism.</p>
<p>Liberals believe in reading actual books, going to war as a last resort, separating church and hate, and doing what Jesus would actually do, instead of lobbying for upper-class tax cuts and fantasizing about the apocalypse.</p>
<p>Liberals believe in civil rights, the right to privacy, and that evolution and global warming arenâ€™t just theories but incontrovertible scientific facts.</p>
<p>Liberals believe there ought to be a constitutional amendment that (1) prohibits another Bush from ever occupying the White House, and (2)  prevents George W. Bush from ever becoming baseball commissioner before he does to our national pastime what he did for America.</p>
<p>Liberals believe in rescuing people from flooded streets and rooftops, even if theyâ€™re too poor to vote Republican.</p>
<p>Liberals believe that supporting our troops means treating our wounded vets like the heroes they are, and not leaving them to languish in rat-infested military hospitals under the outsourced management of incompetent cronies who think theyâ€™re running a Taco Bell franchise.</p>
<p>Liberals believe in pheromones, sex ed, solar panels, voting paper trails, the common good, and that, no matter how fascinating a story it may be, a president should never sit around in a state of total paralysis reading &#8220;My Pet Goat&#8221; while America is under attack.</p>
<p>And above all, liberals believe that itâ€™s time to come together as a country and put a collective boot in the ass of shameless conservative fearmongers, hate merchants, and scapegoaters who are sucking the freedom out of all our souls. </p></blockquote>
<p>I felt that was a nice reminder as to why we&#8217;re involved so much right now. You are still licensed by law to be <strong>enraged</strong> at the state of your country. Just as I am licensed by virtue to be enraged at the state of American health care <em>and samaritanism</em>. Like I&#8217;ve been saying for a while, this year&#8217;s fight is a complete downhill battle. Let&#8217;s just be sure to do our fair share and win it, and win it clean to rub it in. Then maybe we can pawn off this cynicism for some idealism and maybe progress.</p>
<p>Most important is that we always keep Fox News on the air to prove our dedication to reason and the First Amendment, in reverse order. Also for comedy. </p>
<p>Ok. we now return to the anti-Hillary stuff.</p>
<p>p.s. lols@mccain <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/179402.php">sexstravaganza</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Flashbulb is.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t heard about Benn Jordan, The Flashbulb, or how itunes stole and sold his music, here&#8217;s that interesting story (which is yet another reason not to patronize Apple or itunes). Long story short: dude gets his music stolen, so he and his label give it away and win from donations; internet works. As [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you haven&#8217;t heard about Benn Jordan, <a href="http://www.theflashbulb.net">The Flashbulb</a>, or how itunes stole and sold his music, <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/pirated-by-itunes-artist-turns-to-bittorrent-080206/">here&#8217;s that interesting story</a> (which is yet another reason not to patronize Apple or itunes). Long story short: dude gets his music stolen, so he and <a href="http://www.alphabasic.com/index2.htm">his label</a> give it away and win from <a href="http://www.alphabasic.com/Please_read.html">donations; internet works</a>. As far as I know, he is the first artist to work with a <em>private</em> bittorrent site to distribute his music <a href="http://www.alphabasic.com/Please_read.html">freely</a>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to formally recommend the album to anyone interested in film soundtracks or ambient type things in general. &#8220;Soundtrack to a Vacant Life&#8221; is described basically as it is titled, and while normally a much more aphexy musician, on this album he has toned and tuned everything to the pace of his life. This is a mostly relaxing trip through what I see as a truly grandiose statement of electronic music. This is a project I would do.</p>
<p>This story is a couple weeks old, but I finally finished getting to the album and I really wanted to mention it. This is part of us moving on. <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Flashbulb">Check it out online</a>.</p>
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		<title>Last.fm journaling.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 06:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess I&#8217;ll mirror stuff I write on last.fm about songs here:
I&#8217;m intrigued by this phenomenon of a metal band here and there that are brutal as shit, yet end up being from some odd place (France? metal?) and have lyrics and themes out of left field (the environment? whales?).
A good example of how these [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I guess I&#8217;ll mirror <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/Sarcasmo/journal/2008/02/10/644162/">stuff I write on last.fm about song</a>s here:</p>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m intrigued by this phenomenon of a metal band here and there that are brutal as shit, yet end up being from some odd place (France? metal?) and have lyrics and themes out of left field (the environment? whales?).</p>
<p>A good example of how these out-of-nowhere combinations work very well is Gojira. It&#8217;s French technical death metal about environmental subjects. Flying Whales sounds like an Earth Day festival being torn down by whales with chainguns. You&#8217;d never think this stuff would be so epic, until you consider the big picture.</p></blockquote>
<p>I am talking about the band Gojira and song Flying Whales. I&#8217;d let you hear it right now if <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellout">Mog</a> hadn&#8217;t got nerfed to uselessness by being bought by <a href="http://mog.com/Sarcasmo/blog_post/142711">Rhapsody</a>. You could say they got owned for being so shitty. The one use of the site is now ruin&#8217;d.</p>
<p>Oh, and I don&#8217;t feel like crawling all over the place looking for a flash mp3 player or something right this second. It&#8217;s always GIVE IT NOW with you people. </p>
<p>Also I&#8217;ve been working too much so I got no patience and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m not entertaining you.</p>
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		<title>fiction is lying is Georgia snow friendly.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, many people in Georgia snow the biggest snow they have ever seen. Some saw it for the first time, and some were merely amused by how ridiculously retarded everyone gets when something falls from the sky.

Seriously. The roads become much like a pinball machine. Everyone talks about how they next day is already a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tonight, many people in Georgia snow the biggest snow they have ever seen. Some saw it for the first time, and some were merely amused by how ridiculously retarded everyone gets when something falls from the sky.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.fictionislying.com/pictores/albums/userpics/10001/georgiasnowday.jpg" alt="run for your lifes its snow" style="border: 1px solid lavender;" /></p>
<p>Seriously. The roads become much like a pinball machine. Everyone talks about how they next day is already a snow day even though an inch hasn&#8217;t stuck and it&#8217;s going to stop soon. They talk about being trapped at work and having to sleep there.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s hilarious. Oh and certainly a bit more in a few hours than we&#8217;ve gotten the past two years.</p>
<p>Of course it was shitty frozen rain by the time I left, but that doesn&#8217;t matter.</p>
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		<title>Channy Awards 2007.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Channel101 Incredibly Prestigious Achievement Awards happened. They&#8217;re pretty good picks. I missed a couple things and it&#8217;s awesome to have them dropped in my lap.
If you don&#8217;t know what Channel101 is (or Yacht Rock or Classroom), or didn&#8217;t know what the Channies are, Channel101 is a democratic faux television station model of video production [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://channel101.com/articles/article.php?article_id=123">The Channel101 Incredibly Prestigious Achievement Awards happened</a>. They&#8217;re pretty good picks. I missed a couple things and it&#8217;s awesome to have <a href="http://www.channel101.com/shows/show.php?show_id=244">them</a> dropped in my lap.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t know <a href="http://channel101.com/how101works/index.php">what Channel101 is</a> (or <a href="http://www.channel101.com/shows/show.php?show_id=152">Yacht Rock</a> or <a href="http://www.channel101.com/shows/show.php?show_id=175">Classroom</a>), or didn&#8217;t know what the Channies are, Channel101 is a <a href="http://channel101.com/shows/view.php?media_id=359&#038;rescale=1" title="quicktime">democratic faux television station model of video production</a> that is screened in Los Angeles monthly and the Channies are its incredibly prestigious awards.</p>
<p>Yeah, that&#8217;s a serious Tim and Eric explanation of Channel101. Seriously. Channel101 <a href="http://channel101.com/about/index.php">was created by</a> the authors of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scud:_The_Disposable_Assassin">my favorite comic book ever</a>.</p>
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		<title>50 Cent&#8217;s Two Cents Re: p2p.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[50 Cent made a huge statement in an interview (in Norway, no less), saying file-sharing doesn&#8217;t hurt artists:
&#8220;&#8230;the advances in technology impacts everyone, and we all must adapt&#8230;This market consists of individuals embracing innovations faster than the fans of classical and jazz music.â€
â€œWhat is important for the music industry to understand is that this really [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/50cent-file-sharing-doesnt-hurt-the-artists-071208/">50 Cent made a huge statement in an interview (in Norway, no less), saying file-sharing doesn&#8217;t hurt artists</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;the advances in technology impacts everyone, and we all must adapt&#8230;This market consists of individuals embracing innovations faster than the fans of classical and jazz music.â€</p>
<p>â€œWhat is important for the music industry to understand is that this really doesnâ€™t hurt the artists.</p></blockquote>
<p>Not sure what the jazz and classical thing is supposed to mean, but he was probably high.</p>
<p>The RIAA and friends say file-sharing is hurtful stealing that kills the blood cells of huge artists and gives them HIV. Why would you believe companies that steal from the very artists they pretend to protect? Everyone knows almost all music contracts are completely one-sided deals that artists hardly benefit from in comparison to the contractor. Fun <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_cent">fact</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>50 Cent has engaged in numerous feuds with other rappers including Ja Rule, The Game, and Fat Joe.</p></blockquote>
<p>THE DUDE IS SERIOUS BUSINESS. He deserves serious respect, even if he was blazed out of his brainhole during the interview; he utters truth. File sharing hurts <em>profits</em>, not <em>artists</em>.</p>
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		<title>Pattern Recognition: James Burke&#8217;s Crash Course History.</title>
		<link>http://www.fictionislying.com/2007/12/02/pattern-recognition-james-burkes-crash-course-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have the kind of brain aids that makes you constantly need to feed it more things, you might be interested in oddly detailed, guided tours through history. If you&#8217;re interested in that or learning how we learned how to learn, you&#8217;ll like this:

I know some people could be sensitive and call it dry, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you have the kind of brain aids that makes you constantly need to feed it more things, you might be interested in oddly detailed, guided tours through history. If you&#8217;re interested in that or learning how we learned how to learn, you&#8217;ll like this:</p>
<p><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dTsIuLtdAEk&#038;rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dTsIuLtdAEk&#038;rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object></p>
<p>I know some people could be sensitive and call it dry, but James Burke is a pretty serious cut-up considering his field of study, and I&#8217;ve worshiped his books for years. Note that this is part 2 of 5 of episode 1 of 10. This can be a serious fast track to general knowledge of the history of science, and is almost an eerily appropriate primer for skeptical thought and understanding of the scientific process and how it effects history, <em>all under the umbrella of chaos</em>! This is multi-threaded teaching and thinking.</p>
<blockquote><p>In the closing scenes of The Day the Universe Changed, Burke suggested that a forthcoming revolution in communication and computer technology would allow people all over the world to exchange ideas and opinions instantaneously. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_%28science_historian%29#KnowledgeWeb">Subsequent events</a> seem to have proven him right. His views of the connected nature of history have also been substantiated by recent research in chaos/complexity/network theory.</p></blockquote>
<p>Essentially anything <a href="http://youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeFan">here</a> is going to be similar or have an even wider berth, but I definitely suggest <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=pTbCNycm0nQ">Connections</a> as it caused a bit of an educational revolution that logically played out to its fullest form on the internet. </p>
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		<title>The Internet Effect: Last.fm finally goes critical.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is hot shit.

This is my listening history (via) from the last two years (November 2005 to 2007) of my last.fm records. If you look at the full size version you can see how my phases shift and mutate, and you can see new huge trends like the introduction of a huge variety of post-punk [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is hot shit.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.fictionislying.com/imagio/Wave-Graph-11.19.2007.gif"><img src="http://www.fictionislying.com/imagio/Wave-Graph-11.19.2007.gif" alt="Wave Chart" width="456" /></a></p>
<p>This is my listening history (<a href="http://www.last.fm/user/C26000/journal/2006/07/30/195693/">via</a>) from the last two years (November 2005 to 2007) of <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/Sarcasmo/">my last.fm records</a>. If you look at the full size version you can see how my phases shift and mutate, and you can see new huge trends like the introduction of a huge variety of post-punk and yacht rock, as well as the Pendulum/Future Prophecies drum and bass explosion.</p>
<p>For this particular graph, red is old things that I have been listening to for a very long time, and the cooler the colors get, the more recently I&#8217;ve been playing it. For example, green and beyond is things I&#8217;ve started listening to since May of 2006 (when I got the job), the blue stuff basically starts in 2007 after the promotion, and purple things sprout up a couple months ago.</p>
<p>The internet seems to be caving in on itself in a good way. Eventually I will be able to start my college that specializes in study and manipulation of metadata.</p>
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		<title>The Book of Mozilla.</title>
		<link>http://www.fictionislying.com/2007/11/07/the-book-of-mozilla/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 04:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve never heard of this and you use Firefox (or any mozilla browser, but you goddamned better be using Firefox), visit this link for the current piece of prophecy. Seriously.
This is just a goofy little thing the mozilla developers have always done. It is awesome. It is an example of a real easter egg.
Oh, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;ve never heard of this and you use Firefox (or any mozilla browser, but <a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&#038;id=29115&#038;t=86">you goddamned better be using Firefox</a>), <a href="about:mozilla">visit this link for the current piece of prophecy</a>. Seriously.</p>
<p>This is just <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Mozilla">a goofy little thing the mozilla developers have always done</a>. It is awesome. It is an example of a real easter egg.</p>
<p>Oh, and if you get the crazy idea in your head that you <em>need</em> Firefox 3 <strong>right fucking now</strong> like I did earlier today, you can just look at <a href="http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/">the obvious place for the vanilla builds</a>, unlike I did earlier today. Why the hell I had to dig to find this dumb old obvious thing that hasn&#8217;t changed for years, I don&#8217;t know, but it bugs the shit out of me.</p>
<p>Also, if anyone knows of any good and current Firefox hack builds that seriously speed it up, tell me as soon as possible however possible.</p>
<p>A new version of Firefox, built for the new web, is exciting.</p>
<div style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&amp;id=29115&amp;t=86"><img border="0" alt="Get Firefox!" title="Get Firefox!" src="http://spreadfirefox.com/community/images/affiliates/Buttons/125x50/takebacktheweb_125x50.png" /></a></div>
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		<title>Carl Brutananadilewski&#8217;s secret!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 10:05:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is adult swim trying to tell us here?

Scandalous! Edit: no one sees it, which is even better!
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is adult swim trying to tell us here?
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<p>Scandalous! Edit: no one sees it, which is <em>even better!</em></p>
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		<title>Guitar Hero III Career Score: 3 Majillabillitons.</title>
		<link>http://www.fictionislying.com/2007/10/31/guitar-hero-iii-has-slayer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh and I broke down and got Guitar Hero III. I cry about it in an emovideo here.
I finished hard in about six hours straight though, failing only on Raining Blood, thus sacrificing my shit to SLAYER
Also it&#8217;s awesome, but I really explain it in the emovideo if you care about that kind of game, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oh and I broke down and got Guitar Hero III. <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=GUxkcN4oHJg">I cry about it in an emovideo here.</a></p>
<p>I finished hard in about six hours straight though, failing only on Raining Blood, thus sacrificing my shit to SLAYER</p>
<p>Also it&#8217;s awesome, but I really explain it in <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=GUxkcN4oHJg">the emovideo</a> if you care about that kind of game, including some problems (I forgot to mention the almost unnoticeable ads), none of which really involved SLAYER</p>
<p>HATE THE NEW LOADING SCREEN AND THE LEAD SINGER HATE HATE HATE</p>
<p>Otherwise new art is good and all that mess. Some of the character exaggerations are for the best, and others aren&#8217;t. There&#8217;s surprises and disappointments (oh, my Judy, what did you do with your clothes!), and a hell of a lot of new crap to break your hands playing SLAYER</p>
<p>I cannot wait to stick all five fingers way up deep all gross into expert.</p>
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		<title>The Internet Effect: Trent Reznor namedrops oink.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chester</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a thing about Saul Williams and Trent Reznor teaming up to make crazy shit.
Trent Reznor says he had an oink account. He also says he spent over $5000 on the Radiohead album (In Rainbows), and mentions his intentions to release an album the same way. 
He utters zero bullshit in relation to the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2007/10/trent_reznor_and_saul_williams.html">Here is a thing about Saul Williams and Trent Reznor teaming up to make crazy shit</a>.</p>
<p>Trent Reznor says he had an <a href="http://oink.cd" title="WFFLCPTR" alt="WFFLCPTR">oink</a> account. He also says he spent over $5000 on the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Rainbows#Release_and_distribution">Radiohead album (In Rainbows)</a>, and mentions his intentions to release an album the same way. </p>
<p>He utters <em>zero</em> bullshit in relation to the crazy horrors hidden behind oink&#8217;s fabled ewalls.</p>
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		<title>The Internet Effect: Politics gets backhanded.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you missed it, I suggest you immediate go and spend as much time as possible watching the newbtube debates. The internet seems to have made the ridiculousness of the piece of shit movie Man of the Year almost come true. YouTube users asking questions the candidates don&#8217;t ever hear before they see their video? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you missed it, I suggest you immediate go and spend as much time as possible watching the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/youchoose" title="political hilarity">newbtube debates</a>. The internet seems to have made the ridiculousness of the piece of shit movie <a href="about:farts">Man of the Year </a>almost come true. YouTube users asking questions the candidates don&#8217;t ever hear before they see their video? Hot shit.</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/democraticdebate" title="STOP MAKING UP WORDS HILLARY">The Democrats got their asses handed to them</a>, and some handled it well while others flopped. Republicans are up next, and I can&#8217;t wait to watch them get completely destroyed by honest questions from a smart, young, and pissed off audience.Then <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/video/poll_bullshit_is_most_important">after that</a>, maybe someone I want to elect will be on.  This is an appropriate place to mention that I am employed full-time, have no health insurance, and haven&#8217;t seen a doctor or dentist in over five years. Makes getting an inhaler (for asthma duh) a little difficult.</p>
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