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		<title>Heads or tails: Approaching the fate of Bitcoin</title>
		<link>http://cultivateculture.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/heads-or-tails-approaching-the-fate-bitcoin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So apparently this already hit the tech world but this is the first time I and maybe you are hearing it. It hurts my brain. A currency of cryptographic keys exchanged on a peer-2-peer network (i.e. a DECENTRALIZED currency). Unclaimed keys are being exhausted as people scramble to crack them using the standard &#8216;check every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultivateculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827487&amp;post=167&amp;subd=cultivateculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A civil atrocity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having made the move from big English-speaking metropolis to small German-speaking town means I now have lots of downtime. Perhaps in some attempt to remain global, I&#8217;ve been using the extra time to follow political events. Of course, Egypt is now the story. I have watched more news coverage in the last week then probably [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultivateculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827487&amp;post=159&amp;subd=cultivateculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Malawi government: Don&#8217;t worry, you&#8217;ll get your pension when your dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarkozy just signed a bill that this BBC article says was one of the toughest battles of his career. It was a battle that had more people on the street than in any other European nation. And that&#8217;s something given the current public backlash to the many &#8216;austerity measures&#8217; being implemented by EU governments. Young [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultivateculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827487&amp;post=151&amp;subd=cultivateculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cada día aprendo algo, indeed.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay. So we didn&#8217;t party in London but&#8230; something tells me that the hand wrapped in orange shoe string isn&#8217;t the newest thing in underground clubbing. Come on, Neo, rave on with the times. Try  Techno Clothing.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultivateculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827487&amp;post=20&amp;subd=cultivateculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Somali pirates claim foreign dumping of waste. Is this true?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 23:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[N.B. this post was written in April 2009. Things are only more confusing now...] I had heard 2 or 3 months ago an interview with Somali-turned Canadian rapper, K&#8217;Naan, in which he explained that the roots of the piracy in Somalia grew from a reaction to illegal dumping and fishing on the part of foreign [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultivateculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827487&amp;post=133&amp;subd=cultivateculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Impulsive democracy: Canadians crash the Capitol for the Inauguration</title>
		<link>http://cultivateculture.wordpress.com/2009/04/16/impulsive-democracy-canadians-crash-the-capitol-for-the-inauguration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Canada falls into a conservative bender, I see Obama&#8217;s inauguaration as something to distract me from domestic issues. So much so, that Carmen, I, Jake and Edwina, decided to make the trip to inauguation&#8230;the night before. We drove all night got to the monument, cheered and drove back. Here is some footage I took [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultivateculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827487&amp;post=127&amp;subd=cultivateculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Election Day, Obama, Canada, and Hope</title>
		<link>http://cultivateculture.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/election-day-obama-canada-and-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;So the election is tomorrow.&#8221; Let me share how I think that sentence should be emphasized. &#8220;So, THE election is tomorrow&#8221;. Lots of people are saying this is an important, even historic day. I agree. But really, the changing of the guard in arguably the most powerful position in the world, is by its nature [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultivateculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827487&amp;post=109&amp;subd=cultivateculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CG is simultaneously errie and pretty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I dig the digital revolution in the aesthetic of video media. Computer Graphics (CG) made eerie and beautiful. A case in point is Tetsoo (e.g. bloo). However, there are many more. For example, my old friend Jonathon and some gifted friends came out with this. Kinda makes me want the matrix to exist, just so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultivateculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827487&amp;post=102&amp;subd=cultivateculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LHC: A dawn or dusk for tens of thousands of physicists?</title>
		<link>http://cultivateculture.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/lhc-a-dawn-or-dusk-for-tens-of-thousands-of-physicists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physics is the study the physical world and what it is made of. So what is it made of? The ancient Greeks (in their togas and brilliance) came up with, among many other things, the idea of an indivisible piece from which all other matter was made. They called it the &#8216;Atom&#8217;. People like Einstein [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultivateculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827487&amp;post=90&amp;subd=cultivateculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do you know George Bush, personally?</title>
		<link>http://cultivateculture.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/do-you-know-george-bush-personally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Probably not. But chances are a friend of a friend of a friend&#8230; does. Have you ever wondered how long the &#8220;&#8230;&#8221; is? Social networks are an upcoming field in complex systems research (there was a lot of talk about getting more funding for that area at this years European Conference on Complex Systems) Mark [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cultivateculture.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1827487&amp;post=76&amp;subd=cultivateculture&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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