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	<title>Noise Is Information &#187; political</title>
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		<title>Beautiful Info-Graphics From 1870</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/06/04/beautiful-info-graphics-from-1870/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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You wouldn&#8217;t expect to find such beauty in the Statistical Atlas of the United States, Based on the Ninth Census (1870) from the Library of Congress, would you?  Sophisticated data visualizations, hand-calculated and hand-engraved, in beautiful colors, prepared by a staff headed by Francis A. Walker, M. A., superintedent of the ninth census.
The display [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The True Cost of Wind Energy</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/05/02/the-true-cost-of-wind-energy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 03:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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The problem with wind energy is that it drives prices down!  From Bloomberg news:
After years of getting government incentives to install windmills, operators in Europe may have become their own worst enemy, reducing the total price paid for electricity in Germany, Europe’s biggest power market, by as much as 5 billion euros some years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Republican Talking Points on Health Care Reform</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/03/26/republican-talking-points-on-health-care-reform/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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&#8230;from 1961!  Voiced by the actor RONALD REAGAN!
&#8220;One of the traditional methods of imposing Statism or Socialism on a people has been by way of medicine.  It&#8217;s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project.  Most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Mr. President, You Showed the Insurance Industry Who&#8217;s Boss!</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/03/26/yes-mr-president-you-showed-the-insurance-industry-whos-boss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama is now out on tour daring the Republicans to try to repeal the new health care reform law.  Here&#8217;s what he said yesterday:
&#8220;If they want to have that fight, we can have it. Because I don&#8217;t believe the American people are going to put the insurance industry back in the driver&#8217;s seat.&#8221;
Yeah, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Have the Perfect Defense Against Tigers</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/03/25/i-have-the-perfect-defense-against-tigers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Since 1997, every night before I go to sleep, I turn around three times and chant &#8220;on-gay iger-tay&#8221;. In more than thirteen years, I have not been attacked by a tiger.  My method is perfect!
Everything I know about logic, reasoning, and causality, I learned from Peter Wehner, former deputy assistant to President Bush, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing Sucks Like a Hoover!</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/03/03/nothing-sucks-like-a-hoover/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[J. Edgar Hoover, that is!  Via BoingBoing, I came across The Kisseloff Collection, which is author Jeff Kisseloff&#8217;s collection of photos and stories stretching back through the 1920&#8217;s.  Some of the photos are gorgeous, some are disturbing, and some are just weird:

Jeff writes about working with Alger Hiss in the early 1970&#8217;s, and [...]]]></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>Who Needs Courts When You&#8217;ve Got &#8220;History&#8217;s Judgment&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/15/who-needs-courts-when-youve-got-historys-judgment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/15/who-needs-courts-when-youve-got-historys-judgment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Andrew Sullivan calls out Dick Cheney&#8217;s admission this weekend, &#8220;I was a big supporter of waterboarding,&#8221; and correctly notes that the former Vice President has thereby admitted to being guilty of a war crime.  War Crimes must be investigated and prosecuted under U. S. law and international treaty, and the principle of Universal Jurisdiction [...]]]></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>Anti-US Propaganda from Dear Leader</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/05/anti-us-propaganda-from-dear-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Creepy but pretty interesting, too.  Via the ISO50 blog.
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