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	<description>Thoughts, musings, and rants by Karl Fogel</description>
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		<title>The Trickster Next Door</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read an interesting post on Gabriella Coleman&#8217;s blog: The Hacker as Troller and Trickster, in which she points out that the &#8220;trickster&#8221; character of myth is increasingly embodied&#160;&#8212;&#160;non-mythically, non-allegorically, but in glorious corporeality&#160;&#8212;&#160;by the hackers around us, and by the trolls and all the other anonymity-encouraged occasional pranksters that make the Internet what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rants.org/2010/02/10/the-trickster-next-doo/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Sita Sings the Blues&#8221; at the Red Vic in San Francisco!</title>
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I will always revere the Red Vic movie house because I saw my first Bruce Lee movie there.  Now, an event almost as important is about to take place:
Nina Paley&#8217;s beautiful animated film Sita Sings the Blues will be playing at the Red Vic for three nights next week:


     Tues, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rants.org/2010/02/04/sita-sings-the-blues-at-red-vic/</link>
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		<title>Learn how to hack on Launchpad.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I meant to post this earlier.  But hey, I suck, so I&#8217;m posting it now instead, the night before the class:

As part of Ubuntu Developer Week, I&#8217;m teaching a class on How to get started hacking Launchpad, at 20.00 UTC on Thursday, 28 Jan.  If you&#8217;re a Launchpad user, come join us!  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rants.org/2010/01/28/learn-how-to-hack-on-launchpad/</link>
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		<title>QuestionCopyright.org is looking for a legal intern.</title>
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From the post at QuestionCopyright.org:
Calling all law students (or at least the ones who weren&#8217;t planning to work for the RIAA later):
We&#8217;re looking for a legal intern — someone interested in learning more about copyright law and using it to promote freedom.
We have several projects right now with legal components, and expect more in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rants.org/2010/01/15/qco-legal-intern-wanted/</link>
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		<title>Bug Growth is Proportional to User Growth, and Bugs are not Technical Debt.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Graph from Robert Orenstein, by way of Jim Blandy.)
A recent conversation on an open source mailing list reminded of two fallacies I&#8217;d been wanting to write about.  (And what is a domain like &#8220;rants.org&#8221; for, if not the debunking of fallacies?)
The first fallacy is that bugs are bad, or rather, that growth in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rants.org/2010/01/10/bugs-users-and-tech-debt/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Beautiful Teams&#8221; Chapter Now Online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
This is embarrassing &#8212; I meant to post this more than half a year ago, and apparently forgot to click &#8220;publish&#8221; on the draft.  Now it&#8217;s old news, but I&#8217;ll post it anyway.  Maybe some people will go out and buy the book, which is a lot of fun to read.
O&#8217;Reilly released a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rants.org/2010/01/04/beautiful-teams-chapter-now-online/</link>
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		<title>An End to Inboxorrhea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year!
My New Year&#8217;s Resolution: Inbox Zero.
0
(Wish me luck.)
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		<link>http://www.rants.org/2010/01/01/no_more_inboxorrhea/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Sita Sings the Blues&#8221; on the big screen in New York City!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

(Reposted from QuestionCopyright.org&#8230;)

The award-winning (and freely licensed) film Sita Sings the Blues will have a week-long run in New York City&#8217;s IFC Film Center, December 25th&#160;&#8211;&#160;31st!
This is a full theatrical run, with 7-8 screenings a day.  The filmmaker, Nina Paley (who is now Artist-in-Residence at QuestionCopyright.org), will be doing Q&#38;A after the 8:25pm show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rants.org/2009/12/22/sita-sings-the-blues-at-nyc-if/</link>
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		<title>The Instant Answer Protocol.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Sometimes I have to trade information with people I&#8217;ve never met.  I know who they are, in the sense that I know what they&#8217;re working on, why we&#8217;re collaborating, etc.  But I wouldn&#8217;t recognize their face or voice.  Occasionally, the information we&#8217;re trading is sensitive&#160;&#8212;&#160;news of a software security vulnerability, for example, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rants.org/2009/11/13/instant-answer-protocol/</link>
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		<title>Subversion to join the Apache Software Foundation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;
The Subversion project has applied to become part of the Apache Software Foundation&#160;&#8212;&#160;an application we all expect to suceed swimmingly, given that Subversion has been operating more or less along ASF guidelines for years anyway, and includes a number of ASF members and officers among its developers.
The move isn&#8217;t that much of a change, actually. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.rants.org/2009/11/11/subversion-to-join-asf/</link>
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