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	<title>Noise Is Information &#187; community</title>
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		<title>Somerville Breakfast Wars Draw Blood</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/04/13/somerville-breakfast-wars-draw-blood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 21:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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If you&#8217;re local to Somerville (like some of us are, or were), then you&#8217;ve hopefully enjoyed a fantastic breakfast at either or both of Sound Bites and the Ball Square Caf&#233;.  There&#8217;s been bad blood between the two ever since Sound Bites expanded to the building next door, and the owners of the old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Case You Were Wondering&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/22/in-case-you-were-wondering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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&#8230;the masters of the American economy (and, thus, the people whose largely unaccountable decisions determine the material fortunes of most people in our country) don&#8217;t give a flying fuck about you, me, or anyone else we know:
&#8220;American business is about maximizing shareholder value,&#8221; said Allen Sinai, chief global economist at the research firm Decision Economics. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author James Herod&#8217;s Book &#8220;Getting Free&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/16/author-james-herods-book-getting-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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&#8220;The knowledge that we are slaves being bought by the hour rather than the lifetime has also been lost. We have been wage slaves for so long that we have forgotten there is any other way to live. We have forgotten that once we had land and tools and could live independently, providing for ourselves, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>so that was fast, but are the right people listening?</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/11/that-was-fast-and-are-the-right-people-listening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jaz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[in case it hadn&#8217;t passed through your FB feed, the self-explanatory group, &#8220;I bet we can find 1,000,000 People who Support Same Sex Marriage,&#8221; surpassed its goal by the end of 11 days, and is still going strong.
so i guess the question is whether we have a really big choir preaching to itself, or if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Rivers: A Drying Shame</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/28/americas-rivers-a-drying-shame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Rebecca Solnit writes in the London Review of Books of the water-powered rise and fall of the North American west:
Eighty per cent of the Colorado River’s water goes to agriculture. Twenty per cent of California’s agricultural water goes to grow low-value alfalfa. The river, in its climate-change-driven decline, will strangle all these projects and make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Local Police: Hunting for Aliens</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/27/your-local-police-hunting-for-aliens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s even creepier than it sounds.  Under the new &#8220;Secure Communities&#8221; program spearheaded by the Department of Homeland Security &#8211; named in the fashion of Bush&#8217;s &#8220;Clear Skies&#8221; and &#8220;Healthy Forests&#8221; Initiatives &#8211; all local and state police bookings will be run through the DHS master immigration database.  Anyone flagged as an &#8220;illegal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;We are born alone, we die alone, and we use the Internet alone&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/26/we-are-born-alone-we-die-alone-and-we-use-the-internet-alone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/26/we-are-born-alone-we-die-alone-and-we-use-the-internet-alone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Christine Smallwood, writing at the Baffler blog, examines the question, &#8220;What Does the Internet Look Like?&#8221;  It&#8217;s a long way from the question to the answer, and the journey is well worth it.  
After noting that many visions of the Internet rely on images of connectedness, she explores the essentially solitary nature of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kicking the Digital Bucket</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/20/kicking-the-digital-bucket/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dr.hoo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I became one of the millions to join the Borg of the social network known as Facebook. I had been apprehensive about joining (why would I want to spend more time online?) I have come to enjoy the ability to stay abreast of what my friends are up to (or at least what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘It’s Incredibility I’m After’</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/08/%e2%80%98it%e2%80%99s-incredibility-i%e2%80%99m-after%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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A great article about Timothy Leary includes this bit of a conversation between Leary and media/society scholar Marshall McLuhan:
In one of their prophetic conversations McLuhan made the following prediction: ‘You’re going to win the war, Timothy. Eventually. But you’re going to lose some major battles on the way. You’re not going to overthrow the Protestant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lost Beer Caves of the Bronx</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/12/27/the-lost-beer-caves-of-the-bronx/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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via BLDBLG I found ediblegeography.com &#8211; their current top story links to a New York Times feature about the rediscovery of the Ebling Brewing Company&#8217;s beer-aging caves in the Bronx.
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