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		<title>The Hooligan and the Underdog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to write a bit about soccer today. But first, some football context. Bear with me. Having grown up in Minnesota, I&#8217;m a recovering (always recovering) Vikings fan. The Vikings are perpetual heartbreakers and heart attack givers. Even from the days of Bud Grant and &#8220;Two-Minute Tommy&#8221;, you could never count the Vikings out. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.littlegreenriver.com/2010/06/25/the-hooligan-and-the-underdog/</link>
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		<title>You can make them like you.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m gonna write a bit on a song I&#8217;ve always liked, but more so in the last several months: &#8220;You Can Make Him Like You&#8221; by the Hold Steady. Go listen, if you haven&#8217;t heard the song before. The chorus is short and goes like this: There&#8217;s always other boys, there&#8217;s always other boyfriends There&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.littlegreenriver.com/2010/06/02/you-can-make-them-like-you/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;If you have nothing to hide, why are you concerned?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A common trope in comment threads across the Internet on articles about Facebook&#8217;s recent, myriad, astounding privacy fuck-ups is &#8220;Just don&#8217;t post anything on the Internet that you don&#8217;t want your employer or grandma to see. LOL DUUUUHH.&#8221; This isn&#8217;t terrible advice, but it completely misses the point. There&#8217;s nothing on my Facebook profile that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.littlegreenriver.com/2010/05/14/if-you-have-nothing-to-hide-why-are-you-concerned/</link>
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		<title>Diaspora: Facebook slayer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The latest bit of hubbub in free culture world is a project called Diaspora, started by a couple NYU kids. They&#8217;re trying to make the StatusNet of social networks, replacing Facebook with an open-source, decentralized web app that you can run on your own server and which ties into existing services like Twitter and Flickr. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.littlegreenriver.com/2010/04/26/diaspora-facebook-slayer/</link>
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		<title>Why I won&#8217;t buy an iPad (but I don&#8217;t really care whether or not you do)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A response to Cory Doctorow&#8217;s post on the iPad. The reasons he lists are all reasonable reasons to not buy an iPad. Like Cory, I don&#8217;t need a computer-like appliance. That&#8217;s also why I don&#8217;t own an iPhone or a Wii or a Kindle. (Also, I&#8217;m poor.) But just because *I* don&#8217;t need it doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.littlegreenriver.com/2010/04/02/why-i-wont-buy-an-ipad-but-i-dont-really-care-whether-or-not-you-do/</link>
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		<title>Mandelbrot Set&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mandelbrot Set, you&#8217;re a Rorschach test on fire You&#8217;re a Day-Glo pterodactyl You&#8217;re a heart-shaped box of springs and wire You&#8217;re one badass fucking fractal The above is the best quatrain, in my opinion, in Jonathan Coulton&#8216;s ample music catalog. Thus, I made this: and submitted it to TopatoCo&#8217;s Jonathan Coulton-themed t-shirt design contest. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.littlegreenriver.com/2010/03/25/mandelbrot-set/</link>
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		<title>Timely Google logo idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I noticed that the deadline for Doodle 4 Google, the drawing contest where schoolchildren redesign Google&#8217;s logo, was today. I&#8217;m far too old to compete in the contest, but it got me thinking of doodles I might have drawn if I could. Then I came home from work and this happened: Yeah, I&#8217;m going to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.littlegreenriver.com/2010/03/24/timely-google-logo-idea/</link>
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		<title>Help Karen pick her next computer!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been planning to get a netbook / ultra-portable laptop for grad school. Today, my dad offered to buy me one in exchange for my weighty hunk of metal (aka late-model Powerbook) so that he can give it to my grandma who&#8217;s still, somehow, running one of these funky boys. So that means I need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.littlegreenriver.com/2010/03/16/help-karen-pick-her-next-computer/</link>
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		<title>The dark side of applied game mechanics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The future starts out so innocuously, but it gets creepier as you go along. Watch the whole thing. Hat tip to Mike Tauraso, who doesn&#8217;t seem to have a website.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.littlegreenriver.com/2010/03/11/the-dark-side-of-applied-game-mechanics/</link>
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		<title>When would you take a love control pill?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And my head told my heart, &#8220;Let love grow&#8221; And my heart told my head, &#8220;This time, no&#8221; &#8211;Mumford &#38; Sons, &#8220;Winter Winds&#8221; There was a New York Times article a year or so ago explaining recent scientific findings in the neurochemistry of love. By manipulating oxytocin receptors in the brains of female voles, scientists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.littlegreenriver.com/2010/03/03/love-vaccine/</link>
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