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		<title>Making Money By Telling Women The Correct Way To Have Sex</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/04/making-money-by-telling-women-the-correct-way-to-have-sex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my post about rescuing fallen women, the Heresiarch examines how evidence-abusing ideologues compete to cash in on&#160;prostitution.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s not his fault, miss; he&#8217;s Anger Management.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/10/its-not-his-fault-hes-anger-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/10/its-not-his-fault-hes-anger-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People will focus on what Katharine Birbalsingh said about the failure of this country&#8217;s educational establishment to serve poor black boys, but the bigger disaster, in simple numbers, is its failure to serve working-class&#160;whites. Pseudoscience, whether it&#8217;s Marxism or eugenics or anti-vaccine hysteria or educationalist psychobabble, is often characterized by rich people making money by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support World-Class UK Research Universities</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/support-world-class-british-research-universities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which of this month&#8217;s begging letters from my almae matres more rapidly and effectively earned its place in my&#160;bin? Was it the one from Oxford University that&#160;began: Dear Mr&#160;Counsell Today the defining struggle in the world is between relentless growth and the potential for&#160;collaboration. which, if it means anything at all, is&#160;cobblers? Or was it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Aimless Hostility&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/aimless-hostility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/aimless-hostility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, John Gray reviewed A C Grayling&#8217;s latest book Ideas that Matter: The Concepts that Shape the 21st Century. To my surprise, someone I know linked to the review approvingly. I was surprised because the review is tosh: hysterical, pompous, and so self-fiskingly stupid that it&#8217;s not even necessary to read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sounds of silence</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/02/sounds-of-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Slashdot, here&#8217;s an abstract of a study of graffiti found on the walls of the Joseph Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago, performed by a member of its IT staff. You can also browse the full dataset, including photographs of the inscriptions made available under a Creative Commons&#160;licence. The take-home messages (as obtained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Bringing this agenda towards fruition&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/bringing-this-agenda-towards-fruition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/bringing-this-agenda-towards-fruition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4561</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The resignation of Hazel Blears reminded me again that this nation&#8217;s government now has a &#8220;Department for Communities&#8221;. Letting that phrase pass my lips without implied quotation marks would be like vomiting into my mouth without washing it&#160;out. Thanks to Kevin Harris&#8217;s &#8220;neighbourhoods&#8221; blog, I can sample a little of that department&#8217;s output, a review [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Dead</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/02/not-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thank you very much to the PooterGeeker who sent me a Minolta SLR camera, lenses and other exciting goodies. You are star. I feel guilty writing so little lately when my readers are so nice to&#160;me. The person who sent me that amazing gift is someone I have never met in my life, which brings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Golly!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/02/golly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/02/golly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mecha-Streisand Strikes Again</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/mecha-streisand-strikes-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/08/mecha-streisand-strikes-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Harry&#8217;s Place is down because of a threat of libel action. The Ministry of Truth has the details. This will turn out to be a good thing, because the University and College Union, an organisation whose representatives seem unfamiliar with the way the Internet works, will soon learn the meaning of &#8220;The Streisand&#160;Effect&#8221;.]]></description>
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		<title>Clinical Research Paper Of The Year</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/clinical-research-paper-of-the-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/clinical-research-paper-of-the-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Via The Motley Fool, comes this essential abstract from the scholarly journal Digestive Surgery: Red Hot Chilli Consumption Is Harmful in Patients Operated for Anal Fissure - A Randomized, Double-Blind, Controlled&#160;Study Pravin J.&#160;Gupta Fine Morning Hospital and Research Center, Laxminagar, Nagpur,&#160;India]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble At T&#8217; Degree Mill</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/trouble-at-t-degree-mill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/06/trouble-at-t-degree-mill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another &#8220;shocking state of our universities today&#8221; story has appeared on the BBC news Website. A report from the Quality Assurance Agency says the degree classification system is broken. I smiled when I read this&#160;bit: The reports from the QAA raise some worries about the effectiveness of the external examiner system, in which examiners from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Irony To The Next Level</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/taking-irony-to-the-next-level/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/taking-irony-to-the-next-level/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 10:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I received an email from a community college in Canada asking permission to publish a link on its Website to the Website of Index on&#160;Censorship.]]></description>
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		<title>Signs Of The Times</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/04/signs-of-the-times/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/04/signs-of-the-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;pictures&#8221; included a front-page one of the torturer dressed in a pink nurse&#8217;s outfit that stopped just above the tops of her black stockings For those of you not up to date with the PooterGeek soap opera, having been made redundant from my first permanent job in science (when the Medical Research Council closed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy Tone</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/04/busy-tone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/04/busy-tone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m so tired with work I&#8217;m starting to have hallucinations. I&#8217;d swear Richard Dawkins starts rapping 1&#160;minute&#160;and&#160;6&#160;seconds into this YouTube video. (Christopher Hitchens throws shapes from 1:49 or thereabouts.) Go here for the&#160;torrent. [via]]]></description>
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		<title>Future News: Headlines Of 2108</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/future-news-headlines-of-2108/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/future-news-headlines-of-2108/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NASA ASTRONAUTS ARRIVE ON CENTAURI IV AND ENCOUNTER POPULATION OF HUMANOIDS SO PRIMITIVE THAT THEY STILL HAVE FACEBOOK&#160;ACCOUNTS. PANEL OF HISTORIANS VOTES ON MOST HATED FIGURES OF 21ST CENTURY. SADDAM HUSSEIN, CLONED HITLER, HEATHER MILLS-MCCARTNEY TOP&#160;POLL. HUMPHREY LYTTELTON FORCED TO STAND DOWN AS PRESENTER OF I&#8217;M SORRY I HAVEN&#8217;T A CLUE AFTER EXPOSURE TO SUNLIGHT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Want A Percentage Of The Gross</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/i-want-a-percentage-of-the-gross/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/i-want-a-percentage-of-the-gross/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember William Hurt Grows A Beard? Now Dennis Quaid has grown one&#160;too.]]></description>
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		<title>Gum Shoe</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/01/gum-shoe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/01/gum-shoe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:34:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mick Hartley links to a Times report of a &#8220;serious&#8221; novelist suing the proprietors of a neighbouring factory because the fumes it produced so affected her concentration that she was reduced to writing genre fiction. It&#8217;s not just a funny hook for a news story; it&#8217;s a delicious illustration of how class and status in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Index on Censorship</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/01/index-on-censorship/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/01/index-on-censorship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:48:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons I&#8217;ve been quiet these past few days is that I&#8217;ve been working on a new Website for the journal Index on Censorship which went live over the weekend. The purpose of this post is to send some of my Google karma to their new URL: &#8220;indexoncensorship.org&#8221;. If you believe in free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Irreligious Policemen</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/the-irreligious-policemen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not having a telly, I didn&#8217;t catch the latest from Richard Dawkins, but when I visited his Website to look for clips, I saw this photo of&#160;him: All I could think of was Michael Mann directing Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in an atheist&#160;actioner: [A convertible Ferrari screams through downtown in slow motion, reflections of streetlights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lightly Worn</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/lightly-worn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beachy Head[click image to enlarge it] I was eating breakfast in an hotel in Cambridge the Saturday morning after I shot that college ball. A tall, intense-looking man with a beard sat down at a table nearby. He pulled a hardback book out of his briefcase and began underlining paragraphs heavily with a soft pencil. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Character Development</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/character-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dismissing David Cameron and his gang as &#8220;toffs&#8221; is feeble, but I&#8217;ve noticed a few commentators refining that line lately. The Spectator blog points at Trevor Kavanagh, Political Editor of The Sun&#8212;there&#8217;s a job&#8212;claiming that the workrate of the Cameroonies compares unfavourably with that of either the Blairites or Brownites (as recounted by Alastair Campbell), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dialectical Minimalism</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/dialectical-minimalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damian: [T]he impression I get is that Norm is more forgiving of Eagleton&#8217;s errors of reasoning than he should&#160;be Norm: Damian leaves an impression about my viewpoints that I feel I have a right to comment&#160;on. Damian: I&#8217;d happily place a bet with Norm on which of the two of them will be considered worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bald Eagleton</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/bald-eagleton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write short posts. Much goes unsaid. I often write ironically. Some subjects are better approached that way; or it&#8217;s just more fun for me to tackle them sideways. What I do say, I say in plain English in the hope that my words at least are clear to everyone who reads&#160;them. Reading Norm today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Professor Wakes Up At End Of Seminar</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/professor-wakes-up-at-end-of-seminar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norman Geras is disappointed by Terry Eagleton. You have to wonder how closely Norm&#8217;s been reading Eagleton&#8217;s output over the past few years&#160;decades.]]></description>
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		<title>Words Like Weapons</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/words-like-weapons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Philosophers: 2 &#8212; Scientists: 0</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/philosophers-2-scientists-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday I found myself stuck in a room in a Cambridge college waiting to do a photo job so I took Ludwig Wittgenstein&#8217;s Philosophical Investigations down from a shelf and, as an intellectual dwarf perched on Hindsight the Giant, sneered at it. Certain things he said appear absurd in the light of certain experimental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singular Sensation</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/singular-sensation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foolishly allowing himself to be provoked by the skeptical taunts of Professor Cho the experimentalist, Professor Hawking chooses the annual NASA barbecue as the occasion to collect on one of his bets.]]></description>
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		<title>Lefties Sell Out</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/05/lefties-sell-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 00:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone who spoke at, helped with, and attended the Euston Manifesto Conference yesterday. Every seat was taken and then some. It was a superb meeting with some of the most interesting and thoughtful lectures I&#8217;ve heard in years&#8212;and that includes the stuff I thought was wrong. One of the best things about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m A Grumpy Eustonard</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/05/im-a-grumpy-eustonard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 12:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not mentioned the Euston Manifesto Conference here yet because it&#8217;s been another pile of unpaid work for yours truly and I&#8217;m buggered if I&#8217;m going to add to it by writing lengthy blogposts about it. There&#8217;s a week to go before it takes place (on Wednesday 30May07) and most of the tickets have already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The European Confession</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/03/the-european-confession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the dying months of my doing bioinformatics for a living, I attended a scientific conference in Scotland. I helped to run a few of the seminars there, but had nothing to do with their&#160;planning. At one, I marched to the front during a student&#8217;s presentation and told a member of the audience to stop [...]]]></description>
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