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	<title>Noise Is Information</title>
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	<description>If It's Unpredictable, It's Informative: -∑p(x)log[p(x)]</description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Been at Least a Week&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;since I harshed your mellow.  Chris Floyd steps up to do the job:
Indeed, the entire arc of America&#8217;s bipartisan policies in [Central Asia] over the past 40 years can be seen as the elaborate construction of a gargantuan, self-propelled blowback machine, producing an endless effluent of violence, threat, chaos and crime that is now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/11/20/its-been-at-least-a-week/</link>
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		<title>Did You Know? 3.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[lots of factoids with neat gfx:

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		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/11/20/did-you-know-30/</link>
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		<title>Your Financial Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Advice from the wise folks at T.Bear Sachs:

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		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/11/20/your-financial-future/</link>
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		<title>Best NYT Front Page EVER!</title>
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IRAQ WAR ENDS and other great headlines in today&#8217;s (fake) New York Times (courtesy of The Yes Men).
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		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/11/13/best-nyt-front-page-ever/</link>
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		<title>Debunking Dan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Nate Silver over at 538 has a post that argues against the assertion that the &#8220;Obama voters&#8221; (read non-white) were responsible for prop 8&#8217;s passage.
At the end of the day, Prop 8&#8217;s passage was more a generational matter than a racial one. If nobody over the age of 65 had voted, Prop 8 would have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/11/12/debunking-dan/</link>
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		<title>The Cost of War = $3 Trillion</title>
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Good.is has a snappy video breaking down the $3 Trillion cost of war (as documented in Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme&#8217;s exhaustively researched book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict)
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		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/11/11/the-cost-of-war-3-trillion/</link>
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		<title>LOLarts: a LOLcats Art Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suppose, in retrospect, it was inevitable:

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		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/11/10/lolarts-a-lolcats-art-show/</link>
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		<title>A Purple America</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Mark Newman at the Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan generated this awesome collection of election maps. My favorite is above.
H/T Andrew Sullivan

UPDATE:
As Steve and Josh commented, the red/blue colors can give a biased visual perspective. Here&#8217;s the same map with the hue rotated 120 degrees.


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		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/11/10/a-purple-america/</link>
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		<title>Ding Dong the Witch is Dead! (Or at least a lame duck)</title>
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After the hoopla of winning the election, and a lot of wonk-talk about the cabinet posts, I was so greatful to read this today:
WASHINGTON — President-elect Obama&#8217;s advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials
I think that closing Gitmo [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/11/10/ding-dong-the-witch-is-dead-or-at-least-a-lame-duck/</link>
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		<title>The Times&#8217;s Passion for Understatement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bush administration officials have shown a determination to operate under an expansive definition of self-defense that provides a legal rationale for strikes on militant targets in sovereign nations without those countries’ consent.
That&#8217;s from deep within an article that details how President Bush signed a secret order back in 2004 allowing the U. S. military to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.noiselabs.com/blog/2008/11/10/the-timess-passion-for-understatement/</link>
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