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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>&#8220;Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourette&#8217;s&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/05/14/glenn-beck-has-nazi-tourettes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 04:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lewis Black on the Daily Show absolutely nails it!

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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>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>
		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
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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>Tim Anderson Bubbles Up in the New York Times!</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/03/26/tim-anderson-bubbles-up-in-the-new-york-times/</link>
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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>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>Free the Willies</title>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2010/02/25/free-the-willies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>necco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the most recent Killer Whale attack at Sea World I think that cetaceans should not be held in captivity and forced to perform.  The animals are clearly intelligent.  They should be given the option to perform&#8230; maybe an &#8220;open&#8221; aquarium where they can voluntarily open a door, swim into and [...]]]></description>
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