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		<title>Grindhouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wildstorm: World&#8217;s End is a &#8220;change in the status quo&#8221; event for that particular universe: global apocalypse happens, and doesn&#8217;t get immediately fixed.  We are promised an ongoing fiction where superheroes cannot restore the universe to order after transformative chaos.  Which is both a refreshing change of pace and a somewhat grim elaboration of trends [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.earthx.org/blog/archives/375</link>
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		<title>Service Toolkit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I manage a (very smart, excellent) technology team in my daily life.  I like management.  I actually kind of love management.  When you get over the false &#8220;Office Space&#8221; assumptions about the role, it becomes a practice in understanding organizational psychology and organizational culture.  It&#8217;s a chance to engage with both people and technology.  And, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.earthx.org/blog/archives/369</link>
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		<title>100%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recipe for getting your old Drupal export XML into Wordpress:

Wait a year and a half.
Get out the XSLT and write a transform to get the nodes into RSS 2.0.
Get out the PHP to turn the Drupal Unix timestamps into RSS valid timestamps and write out the results.
Import the RSS 2.0 into WordPress.
Remove dupes because you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.earthx.org/blog/archives/327</link>
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		<title>Maintenance Uptime</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, that was easy.  Both Movable Type and RSS imports in WordPress are apparently idiot-proof.  A good chunk of old posts are in here now.
What&#8217;s missing is a period from 2003-2005 that I would like to get in here.  My historical stuff from that period is in Drupal exported XML (I&#8217;d point you to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.earthx.org/blog/archives/123</link>
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		<title>Blast from the Past: Virtual World News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Came across myself on Long Story, Short Pier this evening, and now have a nostalgia for the days when I got to write all day and blog much more often.  I can&#8217;t promise I&#8217;ll become a more frequent blogger, but I can get off my ass and import my archived back posts &#8212; I&#8217;ll do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.earthx.org/blog/archives/33</link>
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		<title>Judge my rig</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m building my next PC.  I&#8217;ve had to tinker with and upgrade computers a lot in my life, but I&#8217;ve never built one from the ground up.  Also, I&#8217;ve always been a little antsy and phobic when I&#8217;ve had to upgrade machinery, so I think this will be a good exercise in developing some more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.earthx.org/blog/archives/28</link>
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		<title>Academic Review of DC One Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2005, I got a nice email from a university journal asking for a review for a forthcoming edition on comics.  I wrote a review, and it was officially accepted into the journal and all that.  I never heard anything further after that, and now have learned in 2008 that it was never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.earthx.org/blog/archives/26</link>
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		<title>Robert Downey Jr.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s just start with the axiom that the most compelling popular culture narrative America sells itself is the narrative of individual destruction and redemption.  I won&#8217;t list the dozens of celebrities that are exemplars of this.  We find ourselves fascinated with famous and talented people being degraded and abased through their own weaknesses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.earthx.org/blog/archives/25</link>
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		<title>Teaching and Learning with Fanfic</title>
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In Convergence Culture, Henry Jenkins analyzes the practices and contexts of young people writing Harry Potter fanfic, and makes an argument that fanfic communities provide opportunities for situated learning (an extension of arguments Jim Gee makes in What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy).  This made me want to find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.earthx.org/blog/archives/24</link>
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		<title>Cool Tool for Talking about John&#8217;s Legacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Folks have put together a wiki to talk about John Slatin&#8217;s legacy.  It is a very good idea and worth promoting.
I avoid talking about loss and personal stuff on the blog, mostly because I think I&#8217;m miserable at it.  It&#8217;s a conscious choice, though probably not healthy.  So I&#8217;ll just say quickly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.earthx.org/blog/archives/22</link>
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