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		<title>How Can Air Travel Be Free?</title>
		<link>http://grabic.name/2008/09/08/how-can-air-travel-be-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomislav Grabic</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free_air">How Can Air Travel Be Free?</a></p>
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		<title>Two Billionth</title>
		<link>http://grabic.name/2007/11/15/two-billionth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomislav Grabic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two billionth photo at flickr has been uploaded on Sunday. Very impressive, since 500,000 was not that long ago &#8211; I&#8217;m curious what&#8217;s the first photo on flickr that hasn&#8217;t been deleted or is private?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/88646149@N00/2000000000/">The two billionth photo at flickr</a> has been uploaded on Sunday. Very impressive, since 500,000 was not that long ago &#8211; I&#8217;m curious what&#8217;s the first photo on flickr that hasn&#8217;t been deleted or is private?</p>
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		<title>10th Dimension</title>
		<link>http://grabic.name/2007/08/23/10th-dimension/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:09:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomislav Grabic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something to wrap your brain around, if you have ten minutes.]]></description>
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		<title>What Happens To Your Body If You Stop Smoking Right Now?</title>
		<link>http://grabic.name/2007/06/19/what-happens-to-your-body-if-you-stop-smoking-right-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomislav Grabic</dc:creator>
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		<title>HowStuffWorks.com</title>
		<link>http://grabic.name/2007/05/08/howstuffworkscom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2007 14:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomislav Grabic</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.howstuffworks.com/">HowStuffWorks</a> &#8211; I could spend days on that website.</p>
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		<title>33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity</title>
		<link>http://grabic.name/2007/05/02/33-rules-to-boost-your-productivity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 16:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomislav Grabic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity with my favorite in the #1 spot: Nuke it! The most efficient way to get through a task is to delete it. If it doesn’t need to be done, get it off your to do list. #34: Sell your TV. (0)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/05/33-rules-to-boost-your-productivity/">33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity</a> with my favorite in the #1 spot: <q>Nuke it!  The most efficient way to get through a task is to delete it.  If it doesn’t need to be done, get it off your to do list.</q> #34: Sell your TV.</p>
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		<title>Photos of Lost Cities</title>
		<link>http://grabic.name/2007/04/30/photos-of-lost-cities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomislav Grabic</dc:creator>
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		<title>Become Republican</title>
		<link>http://grabic.name/2007/04/30/become-republican/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomislav Grabic</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thefrown.com/frowners/becomerepublican.swf">Become Republican</a></p>
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		<title>How to Eat M&amp;Ms in Zero Gravity</title>
		<link>http://grabic.name/2007/04/25/how-to-eat-mms-in-zero-gravity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomislav Grabic</dc:creator>
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		<title>Coincidental Incidents</title>
		<link>http://grabic.name/2007/04/24/coincidental-incidents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tomislav Grabic</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while something happens that makes you question how the world ticks. In my case, since I&#8217;m clueless, this happens quite often, but here&#8217;s an event, so unlikely, that I stop for a second and write about it. Bear with me, I have to go into the details of the circumstances that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Every once in a while something happens that makes you question how the world ticks. In my case, since I&#8217;m clueless, this happens quite often, but here&#8217;s an event, so unlikely, that I stop for a second and write about it. Bear with me, I have to go into the details of the circumstances that lead to today&#8217;s event.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m using <a href="http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/" title="Thunderbird">Thunderbird</a> to collect <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rss_feeds" title="Rss Feeds">rss feeds</a> from various sites, so I don&#8217;t have to visit them every time there&#8217;s an update. One of them, <a href="http://www.parenthacks.com/" title="Parent Hacks">Parent Hacks</a>, is new in my list. If you have kids, check out the site. Anyway, today&#8217;s entry was about <a href="http://www.parenthacks.com/" title="Parent Hack">Parent Hacks</a> being nominated at <a href="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/1344/" title="Blogger's Choice Awards">Blogger&#8217;s Choice Awards</a>. On the left hand, the <a href="http://www.bloggerschoiceawards.com/blogs/show/1344/" aiotitle="Blogger's Choice Awards">Blogger&#8217;s Choice Awards</a> site has categories for nominated blogs, out of curiosity I started clicking through the categories to see the rankings and looked at the top ten in the <em>best parenting</em> category, too. One of the funnier titles that cought my eye was <a href="http://www.theredneckmommy.com/" title="The Redneck Mommy">The Redneck Mommy</a>, which was the next blog I looked at. I liked their design idea and stumbled over a word in a <a href="http://theredneckmommy.com/2007/04/16/boos-plea-for-freaking-insanity/" title="Redneck Mommy Posting">posting</a>: <em>Dooces</em>. What&#8217;s that? <a href="http://dict.leo.org/?lang=de&amp;lp=ende" title="LEO Dictionary">LEO</a> couldn&#8217;t help, and the <a href="http://www.dooce.com" title="Dooce">blog</a> itself didn&#8217;t reveal the answer at first (click on <a href="http://www.dooce.com/faq.html" title="Dooce: FAQ">FAQ</a> to find out). <a href="http://www.dooce.com" title="Dooce">Dooce</a> has a daily links column on the left, with a link to a <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=puzFWDPy3i0&amp;mode=related&amp;search=" title="Demetri Martin video">Demetri Martin Youtube video</a>. I love comedy &#8211; click I&#8217;m there and watching it. In the related column at Youtube, I notice a video of the same comedian: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=viw5U7yPxo0&amp;mode=related&amp;search=" title="Demetri Martin: Material Enhancers">Material Enhancers</a>. After I&#8217;m almost done watching that one, too, <a href="http://tiltman.nohype.de/" title="Tiltman">a friend</a> who logged in at Skype sends me a message &#8211; the last time was yesterday evening we talked. His message contained only one link, to a <a href="http://ramblings.nohype.de/archives/2007/04/23/demetri-martin-flipchart-comedy/" title="Irregular Ramblings">blog entry of one of his friends, Kai</a>. In his posting, Kai writes that he came across a new stand up comedian and links to two Youtube videos. Yep, the same comedian, the same video, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetri_martin" title="Demetri Martin">Demetri Martin</a>, <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=viw5U7yPxo0&amp;mode=related&amp;search=" title="Demetri Martin: Material Enhancers">Material Enhancers</a>. Out of <a href="http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/internet.htm" title="Deep Web">several hundred thousand terabytes of information</a>, <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/11/01/100millionwebsites/" title="100 million websites">over a hundred million of websites</a>, <a href="http://video.google.de/videosearch?q=" title="34 million: number of available videos at Google Video">millions of videos</a>, he just happens to send me the same one I was watching at that moment.</p>
<p>What do you make out of that?</p>
<p><em>update:</em> I found out that Kai had the videos from <a href="http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2007/04/presentations_e.html" title="presentation zen">presentation zen</a>, a weblog I visited for the first time a few days before the Demitri videos were posted there. The blogosphere is a small place indeed.</p>
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