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		<title>Property</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People acquire property in order to provide prosperity for posterity. 

POSTERITY, property, PROSPERITY]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/property/</link>
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		<title>Web Writing As Fishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been thinking a lot about various metaphors for what I do here on the web. Blogging for me has become kind of like fishing or trapping. You throw some bait into the water and wait to see if anybody swims by and takes it. I guess you could look at all different kinds of metrics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/web-writing-as-fishing/</link>
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		<title>Information Angels &#038; Other Entities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his book Accelerando, sci-fi author Charles Stross used the term &#8220;weakly godlike intelligences&#8221; to refer - I think - to some kind of futuristic AI. Doing some keyword genetics (keyword forensics?) on that phrase has brought me to a web page which would have me believe that the term &#8220;godlike intelligences&#8221; may have come [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/information-angels-other-entities/</link>
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		<title>Keyword Genetics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I would love to see some kind of online application which allows you to trace sort of the evolution of words and their usage over the internet. I don&#8217;t know exactly what I mean by that, but maybe somebody reading this does and can link me to a good source.

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/keyword-genetics/</link>
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		<title>Holographic Internet Interface</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My site currently has 6,247 posts and 24,045 comments. For some time now, I&#8217;ve been eagerly awaiting the day when the next quantum leap is made in how we use computers and how information is organized and retrieved. It&#8217;s the sort of thing which, as a heavy internet user, writer and developer for over ten [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/16/holographic-internet-interface/</link>
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		<title>1:23pm, 15th May 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been wrapping various loose ends up the past few days. Things are good. Sometimes I let a bunch of emails pile up and don&#8217;t respond to people for a few days until I have the time to sit down and just get it all off my plate. I guess that&#8217;s sort of a good description [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/15/123pm-15th-may-2008/</link>
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		<title>Tim Boucher (Big Elk) Web Radio Interview @ 7pm EST</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m meeting up with Eric Willison from the Mill Valley Cultural Arts Umbrella, a local non-profit dedicated to community arts development for a live interview on their web radio station, UmbrellaRadio.org. Haven&#8217;t gotten final word on it yet, but I&#8217;m fairly certain it is going to be broadcast live over the web at 7:00pm EST [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/13/tim-boucher-big-elk-web-radio-interview-7pm-est/</link>
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		<title>Le Bonnet Rouge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meant to add this in with my post on free boxes: the day I put those boxes out, I took a nap and had the following dream. Wrote this to my friend Garrett, who co-starred in the dream, for whatever reason:
I had a dream yesterday with you in it. We somehow were in this big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/12/le-bonnet-rouge/</link>
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		<title>Downloading Information Into Your Brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting conversation developed in the comments to a recent post which I wanted to bump up into the mainstream here. Ted talks about how after reading Buckminster Fuller late into the night, he subsequently spent a major portion of the evening asleep and dreaming fitfully, as though he were &#8220;downloading&#8221; a massive quantity of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/12/downloading-information-into-your-brain/</link>
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		<title>Foreign Aid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve only been following the news out of Burma/Myanmar in a very tangential way. But one question I&#8217;ve derived from the whole thing is a bit more general: to what extent is &#8220;foreign aid&#8221; a cover for countries being taken over or at least indebted to one another during moments of greatest need? Maybe it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/12/foreign-aid/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s a Free Box?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, I put out three free boxes in order to rid myself of some accumulated junk: books, DVD&#8217;s, old computer stuff, some clothes and house-hold items. When I mentioned it to a friend, she said &#8220;What&#8217;s a free box?&#8221; So I figured I would enlighten people here on the world wide web who&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/12/whats-a-free-box/</link>
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		<title>To Keep Away That Hoodoo</title>
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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/to-keep-away-that-hoodoo/</link>
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		<title>The Baltimore River</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[+]

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/the-baltimore-river/</link>
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		<title>What In Hell&#8217;s Really Going On In Burma Right Now?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anybody?

listening post]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/what-in-hells-really-going-on-in-burma-right-now/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a keyword farmer&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The new cottage industry&#8230;

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/im-a-keyword-farmer/</link>
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		<title>D:\Images\zwrenrev.jpg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/dimageszwrenrevjpg/</link>
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		<title>Green Hotels In Baltimore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part of the city-wide re-branding effort: &#8220;New Green Baltimore Hotel to Appeal to Traveling Tree Huggers and Beer Drinkers Alike&#8220;.

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/green-hotels-in-baltimore/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Wow, I&#8217;ve never seen anything like your robots!&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
[via]

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/wow-ive-never-seen-anything-like-your-robots/</link>
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		<title>Green Sustainable Prison Farms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[w00t!

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/green-sustainable-prison-farms/</link>
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		<title>Multi-Phasal Realms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Cool sounding word combination)

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/multi-phasal-realms/</link>
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		<title>Universal Reference Point System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[URPS

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/universal-reference-point-system/</link>
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		<title>This Domain Protected By</title>
		<description><![CDATA[//SmartDataMark &#038; MemoryKnight//

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/this-domain-protected-by/</link>
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		<title>LawyerBots &#038; IRS.Bots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Automated processes which fight over digital rights and licensing fees for a multi-level marketing surveillance subject/media superstar.

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/lawyerbots-irsbots/</link>
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		<title>Holographic Software Agents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who act semi-autonomously to protect, broadcast or obfuscate your data wake in multi-physical space.

metaphysical metaverses]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/holographic-software-agents/</link>
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		<title>Next Wave Human-Computer Interface Metaphors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mouse, spider, bird / different types of pets (and animals - &#8220;life of their own&#8221;) with different attributes and interaction styles.

fresh out of the oven]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/next-wave-human-computer-interface-metaphors/</link>
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		<title>[Tech Idea] Home Search Bot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a cross between a Roomba (robotic vaccuum cleaner) and a semi-autonomous information indexing electronic spider which would roam your house and help you find your keys.

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/tech-idea-home-search-bot/</link>
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		<title>Polite Society</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Behaviors you exhibit publicly so you can get other people to do things for you. 
{See also: economics}


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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/polite-society/</link>
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		<title>Economics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What you can get other people to do.

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/economics/</link>
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		<title>GLOBAL WARMING IS HOT AIR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Free bumper sticker idea]

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/10/global-warming-is-hot-air/</link>
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		<title>Big Elk in Roosevelt Park (Balt. MD), May 10 @ 10:30am</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More details on my upcoming debut performance as &#8220;Big Elk&#8221;, a solo folk outfit, tomorrow morning can be found on the Umbrella Radio website - the people through whom I got this show. 
If you&#8217;re in or around Baltimore City (actually, it&#8217;s in Hampden) tomorrow morning, stop on by and lend an ear. I will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/09/big-elk-in-roosevelt-park-balt-md-may-10-1030am/</link>
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		<title>Sean Moriva&#8217;s Caritas Tattoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of caritas, got this email today from my friend Sean Moriva, which I&#8217;ve gotten his permission to re-publish here. I thought it was wonderful and totally relevant to the current trains of thought I&#8217;ve been following. The links embedded are his, and here&#8217;s the picture of the home tattoo he gave himself:

So I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/09/sean-morivas-caritas-tattoo/</link>
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		<title>Burqa &#038; Bagism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Been thinking about the burqa garment worn in Islam and the prohibitions against it in public schools, as I&#8217;ve heard happening in Europe. A burqa is a useful example of tribal identity enveloping and covering (or protecting, conversely) individual identity. Another modern variant of this same thing is that whole thing John Lennon and Yoko [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/09/burqa-bagism/</link>
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		<title>Tribal Identity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a feeling, and I may be totally wrong, but I wonder if in &#8220;traditional cultures&#8221; (however broadly you want to define that) the notion of an &#8220;individual identity&#8221; even existed. It may be that you were first and foremost a member of your tribe or clan and then your lodge or your family [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/09/tribal-identity/</link>
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		<title>Dog Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, a co-worker of mine at the Dog Temple said something which has stuck with me: that either he or I could take any one of these dogs home with us, keep it (and take care of it obviously) and the dogs would be perfectly happy with it. While the specifics of such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/09/dog-love/</link>
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		<title>Hobo Film Festival (Baltimore)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I accidentally wound up at the Baltimore screening of the Hobo Film Festival, which took place in the cleanest punk house I ever saw&#8217;s basement. And they had this really sweet amazing white dog. Cute young girls were sipping forties of malt liquor and we watched a couple films, one feature length, about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/09/hobo-film-festival-baltimore/</link>
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		<title>Revolution MoneyExchange Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bunch of different people have sent me a link to the new PayPal alternative, Revolution MoneyExchange, and a couple people asked for my opinion on it. I was originally sent a link to it via the guy from Cryptogon, who I tried to sign up under for an account, so he&#8217;d get a kickback [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/08/revolution-moneyexchange-review/</link>
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		<title>The New Face Of Home-Grown Terrorism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because who needs food shortages!







{See also: H.R. 1955: Violent Radicalization and &#8220;Homegrown&#8221; Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007}

an old chestnut i know]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/08/the-face-of-home-grown-terrorism/</link>
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		<title>Everyman [Intro]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia:
In literature and drama, the term everyman has come to mean an ordinary individual, with whom the audience or reader is supposed to be able to identify easily, and who is often placed in extraordinary circumstances. The name derives from a 16th century English morality play called Everyman.
The contemporary everyman differs greatly from his (or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/08/everyman-intro/</link>
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		<title>Maryland (MD) Open Mike (Mic) Listings for May</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess I should start going to these&#8230;

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/07/maryland-md-open-mike-mic-listings-for-may/</link>
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		<title>Contagious Cancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hot new thing according to the Harper&#8217;s magazine left in my bathroom.

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/07/contagious-cancer/</link>
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		<title>Collective Intelligence &#038; Distributed Identity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These are two other phrases which have been absolutely dancing around my head for the past few months. However, in their fits of ecstasy, they&#8217;ve yet to coalesce into a shape which I can easily just compress down into a few words and say: here, here is this new cool idea which will revolutionize how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/07/collective-intelligence-distributed-identity/</link>
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		<title>Mousing Around [Future Tech Concepts]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A half-formed idea I haven&#8217;t been able to shake, so I may as well share it here. Consider it a part of my &#8220;free business ideas&#8221; platform/offering:
The metaphor of a &#8220;mouse&#8221; in computing, right? I used to work with a guy who was ex-Microsoft. An old-school comp-sci guy. He told me something about the metaphor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/07/mousing-around-future-tech-concepts/</link>
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		<title>The New Falls Road</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night after work, I biked down Falls Road looking for a place I could climb down to the river. I spotted one around a nice bend in the road, a steep foot path with large rocks at the bottom, stashed my bike amidst some trees so it would be out of sight from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/07/the-new-falls-road/</link>
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		<title>Community Service Instead of Taxes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This goes back to a conversation we were having on this site a week or two ago which got buried when the comments close (happens automatically after five days):
What if instead of paying taxes, citizens of a particular jurisdiction donated a portion of their monthly labor hours to community service? This way, from the citizen&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/06/community-service-instead-of-taxes/</link>
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		<title>Person-To-Person Transmission of Knowledge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess what I was trying to say in some of my most recent posts about folk music has to do with information being transmitted from person to person. Something like folklore meets epidemiology meets the oral tradition. Something about when you hear some bit of information: news, a joke, a song, from a certain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/06/person-to-person-transmission-of-knowledge/</link>
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		<title>The Ending of Fahrenheit 451</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has anyone recently read Ray Bradbury&#8217;s sci-fi novel classic, Fahrenheit 451 or else have a copy of it handy? I wanted to reference it and see if it ended the way I made it out to end in my head. From what I remember - and this is years ago - the story ends with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/06/the-ending-of-fahrenheit-451/</link>
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		<title>Jimmie Rodgers Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of errant brakemen, I just started watching Beatles Anthology and discovered this excellent clip from Jimmie Rogers. He&#8217;s one of those people whose name I&#8217;ve heard, but who I never encountered before. These clips all seem to come from the same original source. 










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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/05/jimmie-rodgers-videos/</link>
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		<title>Folk Music In The Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of research into the historical roots of what we now call &#8220;folk music.&#8221; I think people used to just call it &#8220;music&#8221; though. Folk music now is like this weird distinction you make to indicate that the music actually came from a living breathing person, and not a machine that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/05/the-role-of-folk-music-in-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Tim Boucher @ Caleb Stine Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran into and introduced myself this past weekend to Baltimore&#8217;s own Caleb Stine, an awesome area musician. I&#8217;ve seen Caleb play a couple times under a variety of circumstances since I came back to Baltimore, but saw him most recently at the Talking Head, with Jason Dove opening up for him. He played a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/05/tim-boucher-at-caleb-stine-show/</link>
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		<title>Rushkoff Interview Re-Published On Wishtank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Go check it out on Wishtank magazine if you missed it the first time around. And, if you want to re-publish this article or any other, go right ahead. You don&#8217;t need to contact me for permission, since I&#8217;ve donated the contents of this entire website to the Public Domain. It&#8217;s totally cool if you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/05/rushkoff-interview-re-published-on-wishtank/</link>
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		<title>Why Can&#8217;t I #346</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why can&#8217;t I program my website itself somehow to automatically retrieve, organize and re-post media for me, and offer suggestions on what to study next, and what to post about next, based on the research it has done over the past few days?

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/05/why-cant-i-346/</link>
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		<title>Inter-Changeable People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may sound negative to people in a certain mindset, but I find it somehow comforting that in Old Time music jam sessions, people are basically interchangeable. One person playing the fiddle might suddenly start playing guitar or banjo or vice versa. And since you&#8217;re playing traditional songs which have a fairly basic repetitive pattern, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/05/inter-changeable-people/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Delete Forever&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m pretty much over trash-talking Google. That was so a few months ago. But there&#8217;s one question I regularly ponder as I use Gmail. Why do I need to save every email I send and receive?
Maybe that&#8217;s the equivalent of an existential question of some kind in this day and age. To me it cuts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/05/delete-forever/</link>
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		<title>The Guild of Scientific Troubadours</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just happened across a really cool concept: the Guild of Scientific Troubadours. The basic premise is that you write songs which spread scientific knowledge on a person-to-person level, just like medieval troubadours would do with epic romances. And you&#8217;re supposed to write and record one song a month in order to &#8220;stay in the guild.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/04/the-guild-of-scientific-troubadours/</link>
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		<title>BIG ELK - &#8220;I Wanna Be Ready&#8221; [Lyrics]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[REFRAIN:
I wanna be ready
When you call me
I wanna be ready
When you are
I wanna be ready
When you need me
I wanna be ready
But I&#8217;m not. 
1. 
This old world
Has too much for me
This old world&#8217;s
Got too much in store
This old world
I love completely
This old world
I call my home.
2. 
In my time
I heard the choir
In my time
I learned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/04/big-elk-i-wanna-be-ready-lyrics/</link>
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		<title>Robin Hood&#8217;s Merry Men</title>
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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/02/robin-hoods-merry-men/</link>
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		<title>King David At The Lyre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/02/king-david-at-the-lyre/</link>
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		<title>Most Bad-Ass Pictures Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mongolian archer, 1940&#8217;s.





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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/02/most-bad-ass-pictures-ever/</link>
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		<title>What The Hell Was The Deal With Black-Face Minstrel Shows?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of researching this very question:





This link is halfway decent as a starting point. One of the weirdest things in that link is that supposedly some black entertainers also performed in blackface&#8230; WTF?

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/05/02/what-the-hell-was-the-deal-with-black-face-minstrel-shows/</link>
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		<title>And Don&#8217;t Forget My Research Feed!</title>
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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/28/and-dont-forget-my-research-feed/</link>
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		<title>The Blues &#038; The Hebrew Book of Lamentations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dig this:
It is called in the Hebrew canon &#8216;Eikhah, meaning &#8220;How,&#8221; being the formula for the commencement of a song of wailing. It is the first word of the book (see 2 Sam. 1:19-27). The Septuagint adopted the name rendered &#8220;Lamentations&#8221; (Greek threnoi = Hebrew qinoth) now in common use, to denote the character of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/28/the-blues-the-hebrew-book-of-lamentations/</link>
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		<title>The Mishnah &#038; The Blues: Repetition in Oral Tradition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tales of An Internet Drifter
My many travels upon the information super-highway lately have been leading me towards understanding how it used to be done, back before there ever was internet. Not having the internet seems now like almost something that never happened, almost like I don&#8217;t remember how things worked back before I relied on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/28/the-mishnah-the-blues-repetition-in-oral-tradition/</link>
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		<title>Best 404 Page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At least that I&#8217;ve seen in a while. This strikes me as kind of hilarious&#8230;

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/28/best-404-page/</link>
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		<title>Dog, The Drifter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, they already made a tv show about me:



This amazes me infinitely. I was destined to find this and rip it off!



I didn&#8217;t think any of this was real at first, but there&#8217;s at least a Wikipedia entry about it:
All three productions centered around a stray German shepherd who wanders from town to town, helping [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/28/dog-the-drifter/</link>
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		<title>[Rumor] National Guard rolled out at an Ohio college?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via a co-worker, whose friend is travelling cross-country. He doesn&#8217;t know the name of the college, but supposedly they&#8217;re known as being a politically radical school, and according to his friend, the National Guard has been rolled out at this college. I don&#8217;t have any more information than that about this alleged event. If any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/28/rumor-national-guard-rolled-out-at-an-ohio-college/</link>
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		<title>BIG ELK - &#8220;Growing Season&#8221; [Internet Package]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
NEW AMERICAN FOLK MUSIC
Over Passover weekend, I recorded twelve demos of my songs with my good friend, Tim Byrne (I only work with people who have the same name as me!). The working title for this particular project has become &#8220;Growing Season,&#8221; on account of it being all about me trying to find my place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/26/big-elk-growing-season-internet-package/</link>
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		<title>Big Elk: [IP].01 &#8220;Growing Season&#8221; (Demos)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PUBLIC DOMAIN FOLK MUSIC


&#8220;Bone Rattler&#8221; [mp3] - [lyrics] - [video]
&#8220;This Highway Life&#8221; [mp3] - [lyrics] - [video]
&#8220;The Old Oak Tree&#8221; [mp3] - [lyrics] - [video]
&#8220;Hotel Hell&#8221; [mp3] - [lyrics] - [video]
&#8220;I Let You Catch Me Lookin&#8221; [mp3] - [lyrics] - [video]
&#8220;Without Your Love&#8221;  [mp3] - [lyrics] - [video]
&#8220;Now She&#8217;s Gone&#8221; [mp3] - [lyrics] - [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/26/big-elk-ip01-growing-season-demos/</link>
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		<title>Circus Characters, History, Symbolism &#038; Archetypes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The circus is a place where dreams and reality intersect, where the limits of human ability and perception are tested and surpassed. It is a place of escape from the everyday (to &#8220;run away and join the circus&#8221;), a place of spectacle &#038; entertainment, and a proving ground for the human imagination. In this article, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/24/circus-characters-history-symbolism-archetypes/</link>
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		<title>Stone Soup: Co-operation Amid Scarcity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just remembered this excellent fable from my youth:
According to the story, some travelers come to a village, carrying nothing more than an empty pot. Upon their arrival, the villagers are unwilling to share any of their food stores with the hungry travelers. The travelers fill the pot with water, drop a large stone in it, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/24/stone-soup-co-operation-amid-scarcity/</link>
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		<title>Wesley Snipes, Tax Evasion Martyr</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is how the legal system works: you use one high-profile case (lynch a pack leader) to deter certain behaviors among the rest of the herd by way of example.
Actor Wesley Snipes faces up to three years in prison and a fine of $5 million when he is sentenced Thursday on federal tax evasion charges.
Federal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/24/wesley-snipes-tax-evasion-martyr/</link>
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		<title>Food Shortage Panic?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess my other thing with the whole global food &#8220;shortage&#8221; line of thinking goes like this: I work with dogs on a daily basis. One of the things I&#8217;m tasked with doing is making sure the pack (usually anywhere from 9 - 16 dogs) doesn&#8217;t go crazy and attack one another. Dog police work, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/23/food-shortage-panic/</link>
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		<title>Big Elk - Concert In The Park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Through no fault of my own, I have somehow landed a morning time-slot, 10:30am until noon to sing and play guitar at an &#8220;Art In The Park&#8221; event hosted here in Baltimore by the Mill Valley Cultural Arts Umbrella (they&#8217;re also playing my songs on their online radio station now!). I don&#8217;t know if they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/23/big-elk-concert-in-the-park/</link>
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		<title>Dog And Pony Show</title>
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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/23/dog-and-pony-show/</link>
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		<title>Is There A Global Food Shortage?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brought up by Julia in response to my last post, worthy of further discussion:

There are no food shortages. There is a money shortage. The money that was partially created by the artificial real estate boom here and elsewhere has left the real estate market and gone to the commodities market looking for a profit and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/23/is-there-a-food-shortage/</link>
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		<title>The Pope Has Left The Building</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Pope&#8217;s visit in America came and went without much of a splash, while much more immediately important things are going on both here and abroad without much fanfare at all. Things like rationing of food staples, such as rice. That&#8217;s right: according to the New York Sun, rice is being rationed because supplies are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/22/the-pope-has-left-the-building/</link>
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		<title>Old School Tramping Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Linked in from a BBC documentary, 1964. Seven minutes long. Worth watching. Talks about the old-fashioned &#8220;gentleman of the road&#8221;, Welsh tramping, gypsies, and the origin of the term &#8220;chav.&#8221;
The clip requires Real Media Player, which I fairly hate and the aspect ratio is fucked, but there you have it. Still worth watching.

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/21/old-school-tramping-video/</link>
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		<title>Analytical Agents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Computers are about to start becoming more like animals.
A working dog refers to a canine working animal, i.e. a dog that is not merely a pet but learns and performs tasks to assist and/or entertain its human companions, or a breed of such origin. In Australia and New Zealand a working dog is one which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/analytical-agents/</link>
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		<title>Internet Currency Movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(An under-expressed keyword combination on Google, trying to float it out into the digital seas. Bon voyage little keyword cluster!)

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/internet-currency-movement/</link>
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		<title>Cool List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[via]
   1. wandering scholars seeking alms
   2. shipwrecked seamen
   3. idle persons using subtle craft in games or in fortune-telling
   4. pretended proctors, procurers or gatherers of alms for institutions
   5. fencers, bearwards, common players or minstrels
   6. jugglers, tinkers, pedlars and petty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/cool-list/</link>
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		<title>Good Man of the Hundred</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tramping goes way back, I guess. Much farther than this, I&#8217;m sure. 
In the fourteenth century, in the aftermath of the Black Death (1348-9), when labour was in short supply and wages rose steeply, several Acts were passed aimed at forcing all able-bodied men to work and keep wages at their old levels. These measures [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/good-man-of-the-hundred/</link>
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		<title>[Internet Drifter]&#8482;</title>
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Brother, can you spare some internet?
[via infotramp]

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/internet-drifter/</link>
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		<title>Circus is in, aliens are out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I forget who I was talking about this with over the past few days, but they were talking about the Creative Alliance, a Baltimore-based non-profit arts group with a really positive reputation around town, supposedly they had some kind of costume ball thing recently. And this year&#8217;s theme was &#8220;circus&#8221; whereas last year&#8217;s was &#8220;aliens.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/circus-is-in-aliens-are-out/</link>
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		<title>is thinking about Van Gogh Espresso Vodka&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do they serve this stuff in other parts of the country? I&#8217;ve only ever seen it in Baltimore. Maybe we&#8217;re a test market - Rolling Stone Magazine did just crown us as &#8220;Best Scene&#8221; for 2008. 
I wonder how people get sponsored by alcohol companies. 
The Rolling Stone that comes out this week includes a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/is-thinking-about-van-gogh-espresso-vodka/</link>
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		<title>is working on a Mission Statement.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any ideas of what mine should be? I&#8217;m thinking it should be like 3 sentence maximum and extremely concise, but also offering expansive spaces opened up by it.

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/is-working-on-a-mission-statement/</link>
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		<title>is updating his Heroes List.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Posted Item]

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/is-updating-his-heroes-list/</link>
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		<title>This gets good at 00:26</title>
		<description><![CDATA[



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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/this-gets-good-at-0026/</link>
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		<title>Marcel Marceau Commercial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


And then something about commedia dell&#8217;arte in Italian, with then some great content about street performing later on in English. 




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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/marcel-marceau-commercial/</link>
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		<title>Kate Bush&#8217;s Mime Babooshka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve never heard this song before:



From an article in the Guardian about the passing last year of Marcel Marceau, who I used to hear my mom talk about a little as a kid (she was also into puppets - and doll houses, still is):
Still, mime has a lot to answer for. Kate Bush&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/kate-bushs-mime-babooshka/</link>
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		<title>Google Versus YouTube Video URL&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Same video, broken out into its two URL&#8217;s, the one I found it from (broken over four lines to show the queries in the string, or whatever you call it) and the regular YouTube one:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?
docid=-281918778500308777&#038;
q=kate+bush&#038;
ei=PPoLSNX-HIOcrwKi4cC0BA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BZsXVf6INc
I wonder how many other ways Google has to refer specifically to this document. That is, how many addresses can the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/google-versus-youtube-video-urls/</link>
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		<title>Internet Refugee Camp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a really funny South Park episode I watched the other night which deftly combined themes I&#8217;ve been following here on this site. You can watch it on the internet and it&#8217;s sort of about that: it&#8217;s about the internet running out, people panicking and going down &#8220;Californee way&#8221; because they heard there might be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/internet-refugee-camp/</link>
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		<title>Terrorism &#038; Theatrical Violence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How much of warfare is theatre, I&#8217;ve been wondering. When you line great columns of armed and armored men in matching costumes and march them in unison over varied landscapes to the sound of drums beating, what part of that is not pure theatre? Warfare is only secondarily destructive. It is primarily instructive. An act [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/20/terrorism-theatrical-violence/</link>
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		<title>The Old Mills of Maryland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Went out this weekend with a friend of mine to explore some points of interest outside the city of Baltimore. Our first stop was Ellicott City, which is a cool little town with lots of antique shops and restaurants. According to Wikipedia:
Like Rome, Ellicott City is claimed to be built on seven hills. These hills [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/15/the-old-mills-of-maryland/</link>
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		<title>Old Time &#038; Mountain Music Songs, Lyrics &#038; Audio Directory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just happened across an excellent resource which includes audio files and lyrics for close to 400 Old Time &#038; mountain music songs. Absolutely essential, and they also offer a bunch of products to help you learn these tunes. Totally cool! While most (if not all?) of these songs are in the Public Domain (like all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/15/old-time-mountain-music-songs-lyrics-audio-directory/</link>
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		<title>How To Play &#8220;When I Lay My Burden Down&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another great song I got re-introduced to during my Old Time/folk/mountain music jam the other night&#8230; This song seems to be titled variously as &#8220;When I Lay My Burden Down&#8221; or &#8220;Since I&#8217;ve laid my burden down.&#8221; Sometimes &#8220;burden&#8221; is also pluralized as &#8220;burdens.&#8221;
One thing that&#8217;s really interesting with folk music is that there isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/15/how-to-play-when-i-lay-my-burden-down/</link>
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		<title>How To Play Elizabeth Cotten&#8217;s &#8220;Freight Train&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[


This video of Cotten playing this song is actually better, but the embedding is disabled. 
I&#8217;ve been playing folk and Old Time music with a bunch of people (including two co-workers at the dog temple) on a regular basis here in Baltimore. &#8220;Freight Train&#8221; is one of the songs we jammed out on last Thursday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/14/elizabeth-cottens-freight-train/</link>
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		<title>Stalker&#8217;s Delight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can now watch me play with dogs live via the internet between 2:30 and 7:00pm Eastern Standard Time. Un/fortunately, there is no audio. I am usually in the &#8220;green room&#8221;&#8230; I feel like such a movie star! I have unfortunately, never seen how this all appears on these tiny web cams we have set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/14/stalkers-delight/</link>
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		<title>Human Search Requests: Circus Stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been without internet at my house for many many weeks now. But now I&#8217;m in a new place and my connectivity finally got figured out, so I&#8217;m back in the saddle again. 
Not having internet at my house was weird at first, but all I did was modify my habits, make new daily rituals [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/14/human-search-requests-circus-stuff/</link>
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		<title>Work Force Definition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People who are forced to work, ie slaves.

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/12/work-force-definition/</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This photo was smuggled out of Google&#8217;s New York City corporate headquarters by a friend of mine and features a boxing bear with the slogan &#8220;Don&#8217;t be evil&#8221; on his belt and an American flag for boxing shorts.


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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/12/dont-be-google/</link>
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		<title>Jason Dove Studio Footage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taken from this past week&#8217;s recording of a new album by my roomate and good friend Jason Dove at J. Robbin&#8217;s Magpie Cage studio in Baltimore, MD. 






Check out Jason&#8217;s jams @:
http://www.jasondove.com/
http://www.myspace.com/jasondove

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		<link>http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2008/04/12/jason-dove-studio-footage/</link>
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