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	<description>Apocalyptic Optimism for the End of History</description>
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		<title>Posts and comments rating system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve enabled the GD Star Rating plugin. You can now vote &#8220;thumbs up&#8221; or &#8220;thumbs down&#8221; on any post or page. See?
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		<title>Wordpress update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated Wordpress to v2.9. In the process, all the fancy-schmancy formatting for the Abrupt Reading Room, Alien Abduction picture, Site Updates etc. were lost. Content has been preserved but I&#8217;ve &#8220;started fresh&#8221; with the comments, and likely won&#8217;t go through the effort to restore the formatting. My main concern is that the site is readable, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return to the Land of Spiders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For awhile we could live / where the air blew rumors /
of trash barges up the Hudson / and helicopters pounded against the dome ...]]></description>
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		<title>My failure on national TV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Phil was angry today. / We talked about my feelings /
which I thought he wanted to hear. / But the man kept shouting at me ...]]></description>
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		<title>Oceans of Need</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The world blinks. / The world blinks
and it is awake, / awake in the dark ...]]></description>
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		<title>Racing Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[An Opera in 3 Parts at 4AM]]]></description>
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		<title>The Transhuman Olympics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time word gets out of another athlete on steroids, there is a huge uproar. How could they be such cowards? How could they disrespect the spirit of honorable competition? How could they cheat like that? Inevitably, there&#8217;s talk of tightening rules, of increasing screening, of rooting out and punishing those who would seek some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Poem I Will Write</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The poem I will write
Will blow your fuckin' mind ...]]></description>
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		<title>Digging for crabs at the beach</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Watch," he said, and he was digging ...]]></description>
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		<title>Psychoanalysis: A Seduction</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Jocks only think about sports, nerds only think about sex." -- <i>Revenge of the Nerds</i>]]></description>
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