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		<title>Space from the cheap seats</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:06:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by lestro
A couple of students over at MIT apparently took this picture with a rig that cost them less than $150 total:

The two students (from MIT, of course) put together a low-budget rig to fly a camera high enough to photograph the curvature of the Earth. Instead of rockets, boosters and expensive control systems, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com&blog=2530009&post=2621&subd=apocalyptickiwi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is lurking in that North Carolina sewer?</title>
		<link>http://apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/what-is-lurking-in-that-north-carolina-sewer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
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Finally!  The mystery has been solved.
The robot, &#8220;Plasmobot,&#8221; will be created using vegetative slime mold called plasmodium (Physarum polycephalum) that is commonly found in forests, gardens, and most damp places in the UK.
Horrible moving blob things were filmed awhile back by an apparent sewer colonoscopy, and the commentariat developed various  theories about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com&blog=2530009&post=2598&subd=apocalyptickiwi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Closeup of a slime mold.</media:title>
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		<title>The final frontier</title>
		<link>http://apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/the-final-frontier/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[by lestro]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by lestro
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the Apollo 11 mission, the absolute apex of the human scientific and engineering experience, the 20th century and American achievement all rolled into one.

To celebrate the event, the NY Times has a long, but exceptional article written by the man who covered the space [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com&blog=2530009&post=2602&subd=apocalyptickiwi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>banksy! banksy! banksy!</title>
		<link>http://apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/banksy-banksy-banksy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;He&#8217;s got an attractive method of perking up a blank wall&#8230;&#8221;



A gallery of pictures and a video can be seen at the BBC
More Banksy pics at the Telegraph
and previously, at the Kiwi&#8230;
update! The Banksy Machine:
Each box contains one spray can and a A4 stencil with one of the famous Banksy designs. Choose between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com&blog=2530009&post=2588&subd=apocalyptickiwi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Photo Set of the Day: Sneak peek at Banksy’s Summer Show in Bristol — his first hometown show in nearly a decade — which opens tomorrow at the City Museum and Art Gallery on Queen’s Road. The show will run for 12 weeks. Admission is free.</media:title>
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		<title>“did you really think you could eat that much garbage without any side effects?”</title>
		<link>http://apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com/2009/05/28/%e2%80%9cdid-you-really-think-you-could-eat-that-much-garbage-without-any-side-effects%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 00:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by lestro
One has to believe that the muscle fatigue is the LEAST of their problems.
In people with hypokalemia, a drop in blood potassium levels results in problems with vital muscle functions. Symptoms can range from mild weakness to serious paralysis, say Greek researchers who conducted a review of people who drank between two to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com&blog=2530009&post=2584&subd=apocalyptickiwi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Memorial Day, why don’t we honor the Nazi dead while we&#8217;re at it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 22:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by lestro
UPDATED! SEE BELOW!
There’s a column in Sunday’s Washington Post about something I am afraid to admit I did not know existed.
Apparently, somewhere in Arlington National Cemetery, there is a monument honoring the dead of the Confederate States of America. The monument was dedicated in 1914 by President Woodrow Wilson and according to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com&blog=2530009&post=2577&subd=apocalyptickiwi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Negative attention is still attention</title>
		<link>http://apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/negative-attention-is-still-attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 03:12:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by lestro
Well, the GOP’s 2012 VP nominee-in-waiting, Newt Gingrich, is out waving his arms and and yelling at the top of his lungs, hoping to draw the spotlight of relevance back to himself.
This time, he is attacking the Speaker of the House, his old post, as a “trivial politician” and saying she has disqualified [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com&blog=2530009&post=2572&subd=apocalyptickiwi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family friendly?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 17:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by lestro
Yesterday, on The Commentators on KOMO radio in Seattle, they were discussing the law signed today by the Governor, which gives all of the rights and privileges of marriage to domestic partners that spouses automatically get (once again proving my point that not allowing gays to marry in this state is UNCONSTITUTIONAL, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com&blog=2530009&post=2557&subd=apocalyptickiwi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eight years wasted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 05:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ by lestro
Today, the president announced plans to change the mileage standards on American cars, increasing them 30 percent in the next eight years.
Which, I admit, is a lot.  It’s going to take some serious work.  But it will be worth it on many fronts.
Here’s what the pres said today:
And that’s why, in the next [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com&blog=2530009&post=2563&subd=apocalyptickiwi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making up for lost ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[by lestro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuel economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mpg standards]]></category>
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Don’t get me wrong, I am supportive of raising the mpg standards in this country.  It’s something we should have done a long time ago.
Who knows, American cars might have even been competitive if we had.
But no matter, President Obama is on it and like everything else his administration has had to do, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apocalyptickiwi.wordpress.com&blog=2530009&post=2559&subd=apocalyptickiwi&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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