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	<title>Noise Is Information &#187; religion</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>‘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>Wikipedia Says the Darndest Things</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/12/29/wikipedia-says-the-darndest-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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So&#8230; speaking with occasional NII blogger Dan, I mentioned in an off-hand fashion that breakfast cereals were developed to help curb masturbation.  True story!
Wanting some backup for my outlandish-sounding claims, I did a quick Google search for &#8216;cereal masturbation&#8217;, which quickly led me to the Wikipedia entry for John Harvey Kellogg, M.D..
Kellogg didn&#8217;t invent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Just Say Noel!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/12/14/just-say-noel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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It&#8217;s that time of year once again.  Posting Nina Paley&#8217;s excellent sticker (h/t to lulutsg!) sent me scurrying to the far corners of the web, and I found this little Christmas tidbit courtesy of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities:
in 1659, a law was passed by the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony requiring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sane People Predicted&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/09/15/sane-people-predicted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know things are bad when, eight years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the alleged mastermind &#8211; Osama bin Laden &#8211; remains at large, continuing to school Americans in the realities of our foreign policy apparatus:
Here is an important point that we should pay attention to with regard to war and stopping it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Excuse me stewardess; I speak JiveHebrew&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/08/24/excuse-me-stewardess-i-speak-jivehebrew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 02:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m looking for smart-alecky remarks on this video, which is apparently a group of rabbis on a charter flight above Israel, blowing and chanting in an attempt to ward off the Swine Flu, which they refer to as the H1N1 flu because pigs are unclean.  Maybe something like, &#8220;In the unlikely event of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Door-to-Door Atheists Bother Mormons</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/07/17/door-to-door-atheists-bother-mormons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Agent B</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City Utah and tries to convert Mormons to atheism. Needless to say, the locals were not pleased.

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		<title>Theories of &#8220;Just War&#8221; Are Bullshit</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/05/21/theories-of-just-war-are-bullshit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 18:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Every time the American War Machine&#8482; revs up, we are deluged by arguments appearing in the press about whether or not the pending military action qualifies as a &#8220;Just War.&#8221;  Invariably, the answer is, Yes!
The next time someone tries to convince you that a war is &#8220;just&#8221; by some philosophical, religious, or moral principle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Endorses &#8220;States&#8217; Rights&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/05/07/brave-president-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 16:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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Governor George Wallace (above, left), on the subject of racial segregation:
Integration is a matter to be decided by each state. The states must determine if they feel it is of benefit to both races.
President Obama (above, right), via spokesman Robert Gibbs, on the subject of marriage equality: 
The President believes this is an issue that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News!</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2009/03/17/good_news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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The man whom many of us may remember as &#8220;Hakim Bey&#8221; is still online, still writing, under his &#8220;real&#8221; name, Peter Lamborn Wilson:
Coins might &#8220;really&#8221; be worth only their weight in metal but the temple says they&#8217;re worth more and the king is ready to enforce the decree. The object and its value are separated; [...]]]></description>
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