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	<title>Desert of My Real Life &#187; Dangers</title>
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		<title>Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Radical Medical Technology</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/08/11/eunice-kennedy-shriver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you have been on an island somewhere lately, you probably know that Eunice Kennedy Shriver has been hospitalized for the past few days and died this morning at age 88.  The achievement she is most well-known for, of course, is founding the Special Olympics.  She often cited her sister Rosemary as the inspiration for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Kindle Developments</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/07/18/new-kindle-developments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was talking to my dad tonight about the Kindle.  He&#8217;s a fan and wants one, but feels as though he doesn&#8217;t read enough to justify the expense.  I&#8217;ve written about the Kindle before and have said that I have a problem with Amazon&#8217;s high pricing of electronic books.  Now Amazon has screwed up in another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travesty of Justice</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/06/19/travesty-of-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court yesterday ruled in a case from Alaska that the state does not have to provide physical evidence (which the state still has) to a man who has been in prison for 16 years for the purposes of new DNA testing (which the man has agreed to pay for himself).  Ed Brayton provides an excellent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recycling</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/05/30/recycling/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/05/30/recycling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 23:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re anything like me, you probably have a couple of old, unused computers lying around your house gathering dust.  In my house, we had six computers until recently, two very old desktops, two relatively old laptops and two new laptops.  We had accumulated these six computers in just 11 years since we had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Security Theater</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/05/23/security-theater/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2009/05/23/security-theater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 20:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing captures the public&#8217;s attention like a named killer.  Jack the Ripper.  The Boston Strangler.  Son of Sam.  Zodiac.  The Night Stalker.  The Green River Killer.   Last month, a new name was added to this list: The Craigslist Killer.  It turns out that Philip Markoff, the medical student who was arrested (and who has pled not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FaceBook: A Hotel California?</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/12/27/facebook-a-hotel-california/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/12/27/facebook-a-hotel-california/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robin forwarded an article called How Sticky Is Membership on FaceBook?  Just Try Breaking Free from the New York Times.  Of course, because I&#8217;m completely addicted to FaceBook, my first thought was &#8220;Why would anyone ever want to leave?&#8221;  But I can see that there may be reasons that someone might want to leave.  And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Rights Management</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/13/digital-rights-management/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/09/13/digital-rights-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the late 1980&#8217;s, I worked as a volunteer on a running race. Because I had a background in computer science, one of my tasks was to set up a database of all the race entrants and then to enter their finishing positions after the race so that we could publish the results in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Always Believe Your Eyes</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/13/you-cant-always-believe-your-eyes/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/13/you-cant-always-believe-your-eyes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In yet another step toward hyperreality, it has been revealed that the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics were (partially) faked.  If you watched the spectacle on television, you were probably amazed by the fireworks display.  There was indeed a fireworks display during the ceremony but you weren&#8217;t watching it.  Instead you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lipshitz by Any Other Name</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/03/a-lipshitz-by-any-other-name/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/08/03/a-lipshitz-by-any-other-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Making Meaning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is one of the most amazing stories about an unthinking reliance on technology that I&#8217;ve heard in a long time.  Verizon does not allow the setting up of accounts that have profanity in the name of the account.  This might sound reasonable on its face since you can imagine a young English major deciding it would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back on the Wii Remote</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/05/31/back-on-the-wii-remote/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/05/31/back-on-the-wii-remote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 23:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finally played with the Wii again today after staying away from it since my unfortunate encounter with a post (which you can read about here).  My hand still isn&#8217;t back to normal&#8211;it was a deep bruise!  I was a little nervous about playing but I ended up playing for about an hour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did Robin Williams Say That?</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/05/15/did-robin-williams-say-that/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/05/15/did-robin-williams-say-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 00:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeannette recently told us about an email that she received that is supposed to be a transcript of a &#8220;comedy&#8221; routine by Robin Williams.  We discussed the fact that we think he probably has fairly progressive politics but that this routine was incredibly offensive if it was taken at face value.  Then we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Wii Woe</title>
		<link>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/05/13/wii-injury/</link>
		<comments>http://cleblanc.blogs.plymouth.edu/2008/05/13/wii-injury/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathie LeBlanc</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dangers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suffered my first (and, I hope, only) Wii injury last night playing tennis by myself against the computer.  Because I was only going to play a match or two and because I am incredibly lazy, I didn&#8217;t move the coffee table out of the way before I started to play.  You can [...]]]></description>
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