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		<title>Let&#8217;s Roll!</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/04/25/lets-roll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Candelpin bowling is making a comeback!  The Boston Globe Magazine is on the story this Sunday, featuring a local star bowler named Jeff Surette:
he just wants to bowl, just wants to take what he can get from the most difficult form of bowling on the planet, a particularly New England pursuit that is as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Somerville Breakfast Wars Draw Blood</title>
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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>Water, Water Everywhere&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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The image above is the National Weather Service&#8217;s Quantitative Precipitation Forecast for the next 48 hours.  It predicts 4-5 inches of rain for the Boston metro area between now and midday Wednesday!
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		<title>Tim Anderson Bubbles Up in the New York Times!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Friend of the blog Tim Anderson bubbles up in a New York Times article about Kombucha (a drink many NII bloggers were enjoying back in the mid-90&#8217;s thanks to Shwilly B!):
Kombucha’s popularity has also attracted home brewers. Tim Anderson, founder of a 3D printer technology company, moved from Boston to Berkeley, Calif., with his “mother” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public Utility Chutzpah</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mutt</dc:creator>
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PG&#38;E Building in San Francisco



Today, I noticed an ad for California Prop 16, with the catchline &#8220;Preserve Your Right To Vote.&#8221;  Thinking that this sounded like a lot of spin, I decided to look it up.
According to Ballotpedia, this is basically an initiative funded by PG&#38;E to make it more difficult for municipalities to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best&#8230;Area Forecast Discussion&#8230;EVER!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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If you&#8217;re like me &#8211; and I know I am &#8211; you love trying to understand and predict the weather.  On the off chance you&#8217;re not like me, I&#8217;m reposting below my favorite recent &#8220;Area Forecast Discussion&#8221; product from the National Weather Service&#8217;s Taunton, MA office.  Even with the jargon and peculiar typographic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Author James Herod&#8217;s Book &#8220;Getting Free&#8221;</title>
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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>Bostonians: Go See dj/rupture!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Monday night February 8 at Beat Research (at the Enormous Room in Central Square), dj&#8217;s Flack and Wayne&#8217;n'Wax are hosting dj/rupture.  I&#8217;ve mentioned rupture on the blog here before.  He was one of the founders of the Toneburst collective, with whom Noise Laboratories had the pleasure of collaborating back when we were all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There Truly No Alternative?</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/01/22/is-there-truly-no-alternative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:21:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Supporting Democrats who won&#8217;t stand up for what we believe in is actually the same as supporting Republicans.  Someday we&#8217;ll figure that out.  Until then, we have Chris Floyd to explain it to us:
I know what it&#8217;s like to be hardwired for supporting Democrats, come hell or high water, giving them every benefit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Kennedy legacy goes down to a naked guy who owns a truck&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Martha Coakley was the Democratic candidate who referred to Curt Schilling as a Yankees fan and who misspelled the word &#8220;Massachusetts&#8221; in a campaign ad.  As a Massachusetts native, I can tell you that I have not been so uninspired by a candidate since the last time John Kerry was running.  When Coakley [...]]]></description>
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