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	<description>Peaking under the Veil of Ignorance</description>
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		<title>But&#8230; is it Kosher?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My rule of thumb is: if it sets out to provoke &#8212; and succeeds&#8211; an intellectual or emotional response, it&#8217;s art.
Penny Arcade tells us that Heavy Rain is art:
If you&#8217;re a parent, (especially a Dad) this game can be pretty difficult to play at times. In fact I&#8217;m curious if people who don&#8217;t have kids [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pop-up Flash Advertising Killed the Newspaper Star</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How much did you* pay for the last newspaper you read? I haven&#8217;t paid anything in years.  If there isn&#8217;t someone acting like a reverse beggar&#8211; shoving paper in front of me as I leave the BART station&#8211; I don&#8217;t even think about The Examine.  I may see a headline on the train [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/02/26/pop-up-flash-advertising-killed-the-newspaper-star/</link>
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		<title>A simple formula</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Waterboarding is torture. Torture is against US and international law. The US has, in fact, convicted people of war crimes for waterboarding their POWs/detainees. Dick Cheney Confessed to advocating for waterboarding.
When will we start seeing Dick Cheney routinely referred to as &#8220;confessed war criminal Dick Cheney&#8221;?
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		<link>http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/02/23/a-simple-formula/</link>
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		<title>Why Starbucks (according to some) is not Jewish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently in a &#8220;Jew class&#8221; (Rabbi Menacham Creditor&#8217;s Spiritual Practice and Jewish Law), and of the many things I&#8217;m learning &#8211; being gay is awesome (okay, I already knew that), Jews are crazy (right, I already knew that too), and I am a minority in the shul for not keeping kosher (ouch) &#8211; I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/02/22/why-starbucks-according-to-some-is-not-jewish/</link>
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		<title>Civil War makes Dragon Age Hands Unclean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently obsessed with Dragon Age:Origins*.  The game play is old school, and story is deep.  I&#8217;m about 17 hours in and I feel like I&#8217;m just beginning to get a handle on the shape of the story. When they say this is an 80 hour game, that&#8217;s not just marketing&#8230;
In this game, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/02/21/civil-war-makes-dragon-age-hands-unclean/</link>
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		<title>Sans-Culottes</title>
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I try not to post videos without any accompanying commentary.  But I figure this video speaks for itself.
Ok, fine.  Some commentary

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		<link>http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/02/18/sans-culottes/</link>
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		<title>Bureau of (be)Labor(ed) Statistics</title>
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As you may have noticed, the economy sucks right now. Indeed, the nicest thing that that Obama administration can say is that the rate at which our economy is shedding jobs has plummeted. That, and they create some pretty compelling evidence that this is all Bush&#8217;s fault.  So thank the gods for the stimulus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/02/17/bureau-of-belabored-statistics/</link>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s all cry for the white girl who got a solo for no reason</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have long believed that my labor is worth something. Seems plausible.  It is, in fact, the basis of a currency economy. So when I was told that in order to make it in my chosen field*, I&#8217;d have to spend some time working for someone and not getting paid for it. I find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/02/16/lets-all-cry-for-the-white-girl-who-got-a-solo-for-no-reason/</link>
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		<title>Sadly, I wasn&#8217;t playing blood bowl&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy football.  I know, it&#8217;s verboten thing for a geek to enjoy.  If we enjoy it, we should keep it to ourselves.  Enjoying football could lead to Madden.  I can&#8217;t help it, though.  A boy likes what he likes&#8230;
Speaking of which. This last Superbowl was aptly named ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/02/11/sadly-i-wasnt-playing-blood-bowl/</link>
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		<title>Ubi to gamers: Drop dead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ubisoft&#8217;s new DRM scheme is bad.  
A good DRM scheme needs to do three things 1) convert pirates into paying customers 2) convert more pirates than it chases away people who buy the software* without the DRM and 3) convert so many more pirates that it pays for the cost of implementing the DRM. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.indignantdesertbirds.com/2010/02/02/ubi-to-gamers-drop-dead/</link>
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