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	<title>Agnoiologist</title>
	<link>http://www.agnoiology.com</link>
	<description>agnoiology: n. the study of human stupidity. This is the weblog of an agnoiologist, mostly studying myself.</description>
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		<title>Making Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a desire to make things. I have all sorts of ideas. I&#8217;m not going to describe them here in detail because I feel like that will siphon some energy from the act of actual creation. For now, I think my first project will be some type of cool chat thing in Ruby. Whoo. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnoiology.com/2010/07/30/making-things/</link>
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		<title>Who I&#8217;d Like to Write Like</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hm, I guess it&#8217;s a toss up between George Orwell and your mom. Orwell writes with a lot of conviction, but can be wordy. Your mom was really concise last night. And she was energetic. Orwell can be rather energetic in his political convictions.
As for what style exercises are for, I can&#8217;t say it any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnoiology.com/2010/07/28/who-id-like-to-write-like/</link>
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		<title>ATDP is almost over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish it was my other job that was ending, and not ATDP. I want more time with my awesome students and awesome co-instructor. Boo.
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		<link>http://www.agnoiology.com/2010/07/27/atdp-is-almost-over/</link>
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		<title>Obama and Patience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Emily:

Okay so this subject has been bothering me for a while now. I’ve been hearing so many people talk about how Obama hasn’t been doing anything and he’s all talk. Uhm, hello? Bush came in for 8 years and created all this crap and everyone expects Obama to fix it in less than 2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnoiology.com/2010/07/26/obama-and-patience/</link>
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		<title>Rafting Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another amazing year. Yes.
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		<link>http://www.agnoiology.com/2010/07/25/rafting-weekend/</link>
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		<title>Extra Credit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3 steps:
1) Read something by David Foster Wallace that has footnotes
2) Write a paragraph of your own thoughts on this thing that you read
3) Write a paragraph about how DFW uses footnotes
Have fun with your essays! I&#8217;m going rafting!
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		<link>http://www.agnoiology.com/2010/07/23/extra-credit/</link>
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		<title>Things I enjoyed reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed reading Opacity: What We Do Not See, A Philosophical Notebook, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
And this:

I’ll just tell you what a kiss SHOULD be like. Well, nobody wants a hella dramatic twilight kiss. Like, what the hell, Edward looks constipated. “I LOVE YOU SO MUCH IT HURTS.” No.

&#8211;Kathy
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		<link>http://www.agnoiology.com/2010/07/22/things-i-enjoyed-reading/</link>
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		<title>So much junk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is what I meant when I said capitalism was very efficient at producing massive amounts of shit that we don&#8217;t need:

It’s a well known industry secret that Nokia was not at all happy that their 6310 model lasted for years and years. People loved that phone. Hung on to it for ages. Nokia fired [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnoiology.com/2010/07/21/so-much-junk/</link>
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		<title>On Machiavelli</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Jenna,
I wasn&#8217;t able to justify my love of Machiavelli properly last night. Allow me to do so here. I love The Prince because it is as subversive as The Art of War.
The Art of War is a Taoist book. This feels contradictory because Taoism is all about peace. Yet the book, despite talking about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.agnoiology.com/2010/07/20/on-machiavelli/</link>
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		<title>Rafting&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; is so close&#8230; =)
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		<link>http://www.agnoiology.com/2010/07/19/rafting/</link>
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