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		<title>The Kindle update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re holding a Kindle, all you can do is read. When I read on an iPad, I always want to go check my email. And my feeds. And Tumblr. And Twitter. Just for a minute. Marco.org &#8211; The Kindle update]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/the-kindle-update</link>
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		<title>Dude, I&#8217;m Totally Wasted on the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If i-dosing means putting on your headphones and being alone in your head for a few minutes at a time, then it sounds more like a cure than a disease. The participating kids think they are getting high, but they&#8217;re really feeling the sensation of turning off their social network and reducing multiple incoming feeds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/dude-im-totally-wasted-on-the-internet</link>
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		<title>The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The depth of our intelligence hinges on our ability to transfer information from working memory, the scratch pad of consciousness, to long-term memory, the mind&#8217;s filing system. When facts and experiences enter our long-term memory, we are able to weave them into the complex ideas that give richness to our thought. But the passage from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/the-web-shatters-focus-rewires-brains</link>
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		<title>Darryl Cunningham Investigates: Homeopathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A 19 page strip about homeopathy. Read the full series: Darryl Cunningham Investigates: Homeopathy]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/darryl-cunningham-investigates-homeopathy</link>
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		<title>Review: Educational Reductionism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Half marks are given for fragments of work; also for wrong answers arrived at via correct methods: &#8220;A kid who answers that a 2-foot-long skateboard is 48 inches long gets half-credit for adding 24 and 24 instead of the correct 12 plus 12 &#8230;&#8221; The notion of &#8220;giftedness&#8221; is blurred and diluted down to nothing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/review-educational-reductionism</link>
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		<title>Great since day one</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Neither Google nor the current Android device manufacturers embody the part of Apple&#8217;s culture that allows them to release a great product on day one. They have a different pattern: It&#8217;s always getting better. We&#8217;re always supposedly one or two releases from it being really great. Much like desktop Linux. Marco.org &#8211; Great since day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/great-since-day-one</link>
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		<title>How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Douglas Adams on the rise of the Internet, in 1999: I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/how-to-stop-worrying-and-learn-to-love-the-internet</link>
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		<title>Superhero Quandaries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some things that bother me about our favorite caped crusaders: Spider-Man swings all around the city on thick, sticky ropes of web. Who cleans it up? How many people arrive to work in the morning, only to find their windows covered with it? Batman uses a lot of high-tech top-secret tools. He has a handheld [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/superhero-quandaries</link>
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		<title>No Comment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Wilcox challenged John Gruber to allow comments on Daring Fireball. Gruber explained why comments aren&#8217;t enabled. Wilcox responded by turning off comments on his site for two weeks (an experiment). I recently disabled comments on this site. It&#8217;s not widely read, and what readers I have don&#8217;t often comment. The level of attempted spam [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/no-comment</link>
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		<title>Mea Culpa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Programming is an embarrassment compared to other fields of engineering and design. Our mainstream culture is one of adolescent self-indulgence. It is like something from Gulliver’s Travels, with the curly-bracketeers vs. the indentationites vs. the parenthesesophiles. The only thing that everyone seems to agree upon is how stupid all the other programmers are. Mea Culpa]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/mea-culpa</link>
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		<title>Improving Instapaper in Fever˚ part deux</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote about improving the Instapaper function in Fever˚. It occurred to me that a small pop-up window would be much better than having a full-size browser window come up just for a second. Then I wondered if I could put a javascript: URL into the Fever˚ settings. And whaddya know, it works! The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/improving-instapaper-in-fever-part-deux</link>
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		<title>THINK BEFORE YOU COSPLAY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Earth Day, I feel it’s important to note a class of people who so far have gotten a complete pass in their complicity in destroying our environment. Everyone finds them oh-so-bemusing with their top hats and leather trench coats. And no one asks the question… WHERE DOES ALL THAT STEAM COME FROM? Yes, I’m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/think-before-you-cosplay</link>
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		<title>Improving Instapaper support in Fever˚</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently switched from Google Reader to Fever˚. I am happy I switched, but I quickly missed the ease with which I could save articles to Instapaper. The Instapaper bookmarklet has some way of divining which article you&#8217;re focused on in Google Reader, so you can add the article right from the feed page, instead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/improving-instapaper-support-in-fever</link>
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		<title>Porcelain Engineering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I had dinner at a downtown restaurant called The Greenhouse Tavern. They use locally-sourced ingredients, organic foods, and are into recycling and so on. I can get behind all of that. But here&#8217;s what struck me most: their bathroom. Yes, yes, I know, I&#8217;m hopeless. Bear with me. First, the toilet. As described to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/porcelain-engineering</link>
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		<title>Dear Bloggers Who Returned Their iPads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the last few days, I&#8217;ve read a number of articles and blog posts in which the author details how they bought a shiny new iPad, but later returned it. A couple of them boiled down to: it just didn&#8217;t do what I needed. Alright, I have no problem with that. Doesn&#8217;t work for you, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/dear-bloggers-who-returned-their-ipads</link>
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		<title>An Adobe Flash developer on why the iPad can&#8217;t use Flash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s not just that Apple has refused to support Flash. It cannot, logically, be done. A finger is not a mouse, and Flash sites are designed to require a mouse pointer (and keyboard) in fundamental ways. Someday that may change, and every Flash site could be redesigned with touch-friendly Flash. But that doesn&#8217;t make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/an-adobe-flash-developer-on-why-the-ipad-cant-use-flash</link>
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		<title>Eugenics and You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to curtail the genetic pollution created by &#8220;inferior&#8221; genes, some governments even enacted laws authorizing the forcible sterilization of the &#8220;insane, idiotic, imbecile, feebleminded or epileptic,&#8221; as well as individuals with criminal or promiscuous inclinations. Ultimately hundreds of thousands of people were forced or coerced into sterilization worldwide, over 65,000 of them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/eugenics-and-you</link>
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		<title>Doing Less Stuff Better, Seeing Your Face in the Marble and Making Immigrants Cry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Merlin Mann: You&#8217;re absolutely right. You&#8217;re gonna die. You&#8217;re gonna die. And nobody&#8217;s gonna care which version of the iPhone you used to make something on Twitter, or to go and post about your bowel movement on Facebook. And I&#8217;m not even talking about legacy; I&#8217;m talking about the fact that I personally feel most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/doing-less-stuff-better-seeing-your-face-in-the-marble-and-making-immigrants-cry</link>
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		<title>Alex Payne &#8211; The Moderate’s Position on iPad Openness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can be as cooly aloof as you like about the device, but it won’t change the fact that it’s a fundamental step forward in computing. Many consumers can surely afford to sit this initial release out until the costs come down and the quality goes up. But if you work in tech, you should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/alex-payne-the-moderate%e2%80%99s-position-on-ipad-openness</link>
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		<title>Response to &#8220;iBooks and private APIs&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can understand Marco&#8217;s frustration with Apple&#8217;s use of private APIs. But I think he may be wrong to characterize Apple&#8217;s iBooks as a &#8220;slap in the face&#8221; to third party developers. iBooks’ use of tons of private APIs is frustrating on a few levels, the biggest that it makes all third-party reading-related apps second-class [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/response-to-ibooks-and-private-apis</link>
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		<title>Mac geeks: Help with this problem?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife&#8217;s MacBook has developed a weird problem in iPhoto. She has been trying to drag photos out to a desktop folder, so she can upload them to a printing service. She&#8217;s found several photos that she can&#8217;t drag out. Most seem to work fine, but these won&#8217;t permit the file to be dragged. Normally [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/mac-geeks-help-with-this-problem</link>
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		<title>The Collapse of Complex Business Models</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The most watched minute of video made in the last five years shows baby Charlie biting his brother’s finger. (Twice!) That minute has been watched by more people than the viewership of American Idol, Dancing With The Stars, and the Superbowl combined. (174 million views and counting.) The Collapse of Complex Business Models]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/the-collapse-of-complex-business-models</link>
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		<title>Mislabeling Apple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[iPad Launch Day is upon us, and with it comes another wave of articles and opinions. This week I&#8217;ve read several times about the coming death of the tinkerer class. Old-school hackers bemoaning the closed nature of the iPad/iPhone ecosystem, theorizing that if iPad were the state of the art when they came of age, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/mislabeling-apple</link>
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		<title>Mac OS X Must-Haves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jon recently got a Mac laptop at work, and asked me for recommendations, apps that are &#8220;must haves.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been meaning to write about this for a while anyway, because I&#8217;m asked this question a few times a year. My top picks LaunchBar LaunchBar is the ultimate Batman utility belt for your Mac. It&#8217;s difficult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/mac-os-x-must-haves</link>
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		<title>Which Party Has More Sex Scandals?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After studying the 58 scandals over the past 20 years involving all politicians or major candidates for city mayor and above—many involved crimes, others just allegations, but all wound up as tabloid fodder—some conclusions can be reached. The number [of] sex scandals has increased dramatically over the past few decades, thanks to technology, new press [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tangledhelix.com/archive/which-party-has-more-sex-scandals</link>
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