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		<title>American McGee&#8217;s Grimm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a paid GameTap account for a while now, and I&#8217;ve also been a fan of American McGee&#8217;s previous works, so I&#8217;ve been eagerly awaiting the Grimm games. I wasn&#8217;t disappointed.
If you don&#8217;t have GameTap, you can sign up for a free account and play the first episode. I highly recommend you consider getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/08/07/american-mcgees-grimm/</link>
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		<title>NYTimes article on web trolls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Read the whole article here.
This was the most interesting thing I&#8217;d read in a long time. The author obviously did a lot of research, and it&#8217;s very accurate; I don&#8217;t generally go into these sorts of articles (articles having to do with online/tech/internet related topics) expecting the writer to know more about the subject than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/08/01/nytimes-article-on-web-trolls/</link>
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		<title>Political interpretations of Dark Knight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, Dark Knight is an amazing movie. Heath Ledger gave an great performance, and the storytelling was very well done. I also think that, while the movie can easily be seen to have political implications, they were not intentional, or at least not meant to be viewed as such. That said, the movie [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/07/28/political-interpretations-of-the-dark-knight/</link>
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		<title>New, original theme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have created a Wordpress theme, which is live right now on this site. Previously I&#8217;ve always used pre-existing themes and modified them to my liking, but I finally decided to make my own from scratch.

To make this theme, I first designed the layout with Dreamweaver and Photoshop. I then installed Apache and MySQL on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/07/23/new-original-theme/</link>
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		<title>McCain, MLK, and civil rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As most readers already know, John McCain opposed establishing a federal holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr in 1983. Most Republicans (including Cheney and Gingrich) supported it at the time, but Arizona seemed dead-set against it. The holiday became official in 1986, but only 27 states and D.C. recognized it initially. The governor of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/07/21/mccain-mlk-and-civil-rights/</link>
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		<title>Douglas Adams on religion and puddles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[. . . imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, &#8216;This is an interesting world I find myself in&#8217;an interesting hole I find myself in&#8217;fits me rather neatly, doesn&#8217;t it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!&#8217; This is such a powerful idea that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/07/19/douglas-adams-on-religion-and-puddles/</link>
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		<title>Wisdom teeth come out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got my wisdom teeth removed today. Not fun. 
There were a few problems, mainly the placement of the IV. I have a more serious medical problem &#8212; one that I haven&#8217;t felt comfortable writing about on my blog yet &#8212; so I&#8217;ve had many many IVs in the past few years, and they aren&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/07/14/wisdom-teeth-come-out/</link>
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		<title>Flying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently got back from Las Vegas (went to go see Penn &#38; Teller and Spamalot), and had the pleasure of flying on an airplane there and back. I wasn&#8217;t searched or hassled or anything like that &#8212; being in the majority pays off, I suppose &#8212; but what bothered me more was the general [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/07/13/flying/</link>
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		<title>Taking a break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m working on other stuff. BBL.
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		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/07/02/taking-a-break/</link>
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		<title>Yet another wannabe game designer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve started a new section of this site, called Talking in Circles Games. I&#8217;ve already released one game (interactive fiction), and I plan to release more in the future.
Honestly, I&#8217;m surprised it took me so long to do this. I&#8217;ve been making games on-and-off for a long time now. In elementary school I messed around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/06/17/yet-another-wannabe-game-designer/</link>
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		<title>Quotes from Bertrand Russell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: &#8220;The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that&#8217;s fair.&#8221; In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/06/17/quotes-from-bertrand-russel/</link>
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		<title>Evolution is both fact and theory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, that isn&#8217;t a contradiction. Evolution is both fact and theory.
Stephen Jay Gould wrote a paper called &#8220;Evolution as Fact and Theory,&#8221; and it sums up the issue quite nicely:
In the American vernacular, &#8220;theory&#8221; often means &#8220;imperfect fact&#8221;&#8211;part of a hierarchy of confidence running downhill from fact to theory to hypothesis to guess. Thus the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/06/16/evolution-is-both-fact-and-theory/</link>
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		<title>I got a USB Tablet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yup, a Genius &#8220;MousePen 8&#215;6.&#8221; I played with it for an hour or so in Photoshop. My first thought was that I wasted my money &#8212; the pen and tablet didn&#8217;t change the fact that I&#8217;m a crappy artist &#8212; but after I got the hang of it I began to like it. Sure, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/06/14/i-got-a-usb-tablet/</link>
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		<title>Dennis Kucinich introduces 35 articles of impeachment against Bush</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I caught a bit of this live on C-Span yesterday, and I think it&#8217;s about damn time. Of course this isn&#8217;t going anywhere, but it&#8217;s nice to see my favorite congressmen up there saying what myself and millions of other people think.
As readers of this blog may remember, I supported Kucinich in the Democratic primary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/06/10/dennis-kucinich-introduces-35-articles-of-impeachment-against-bush/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on TinyXP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just installed TinyXP on a system I&#8217;m building for a friend, and I was amazed. I chose the &#8220;BARE&#8221; install without IE/OE/WMP, and it worked like a charm. It booted very quickly, and the ram usage was just above 70mb total!
The idea behind TinyXP is that most of the useless junk that comes with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://talkingincircles.net/2008/06/09/thoughts-on-tinyxp/</link>
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