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		<title>APB ON LOLLIPOP GIRL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/16/apb-on-lollipop-girl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/16/apb-on-lollipop-girl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 00:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Anyone seen Lollipop Girl, of &#8220;Grand Theft Auto IV&#8221; fame, around lately?
Because she&#8217;s somewhat elusive during gameplay within Liberty City itself. Which is ironic, considering that the character is quite prominent in advertising around New York City, and so presumably is a drawing card for selling the game. It&#8217;s like one of those top-billed actors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRAND TAG CLOUDS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/16/brand-tag-clouds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 23:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Like Brian Morrissey at AdFreak, I&#8217;m not a big fan of tag clouds (or &#8220;weighted lists&#8221;, to use a description from my visual-design past). Whatever their utility as navigation tools, they&#8217;re usually ugly as sin, especially when applied to a blog/site that devotes 90 percent of its content to one or two topics (obviating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CELLPHONE-ONLY DISEASE CONTROL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/15/cellphone-only-disease-control/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/15/cellphone-only-disease-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 01:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The mass adoption of cellphones as the only household phones people use began three years ago. The trending continues apace: A combined 29 percent of Americans either have only cellphones, or else pair them with a landline phone which they never use for talk.
The reasons for this aren&#8217;t surprising, but the source of the latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CBS BUYS CNET: THE REAL NEWS.COM</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/15/cbs-buys-cnet-the-real-newscom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/15/cbs-buys-cnet-the-real-newscom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 17:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[While CBS will be getting a robust and sprawling Web media operation in its $1.8 billion acquisition of CNET Networks, in my mind there are two chief reasons for the deal:
- News.com
- TV.com
It just about begins and ends there. Both those sites &#8212; or, more properly, their browser addresses &#8212; make synergistic sense under CBS&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOM SACHS MINI-MOVIES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/15/tom-sachs-mini-movies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/15/tom-sachs-mini-movies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 16:56:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of Tom Sachs, he&#8217;s a multi-media kinda pop-cultural artist, as evidenced by his collection of short films.
They look to be mostly stop-motion animation pieces with funky soundtracks/voiceovers attached. Sachs collaborated with the Neistat Brothers on these, and the influence definitely shows.
My favorites from this group are: &#8220;McDonald&#8217;s Teaser&#8221;, musically accompanied by the late Wesley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HELLO KITTYZILLA</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/14/hello-kittyzilla/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/14/hello-kittyzilla/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 01:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a decided 180-degree from its previous display of Damien Hirst-arranged animal carcasses, Park Avenue&#8217;s Lever House is now hosting giant-sized sculptures of Hello Kitty characters.
Why? Because sculpture artist Tom Sachs considers the cutesy Japanese feline to be his pop-cultural muse, worthy of extensive bronze-working, topped with white-paint finishing.
I wandered into this public art display [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RECESSION AS MANEATER</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/13/recession-as-maneater/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/13/recession-as-maneater/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 03:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re packing a Y-chromosome, you&#8217;re (almost literally) a marked man lately, because there&#8217;s a gender divide characterizing the onset of this softening economy:
From last November through this April, American women aged 20 and up gained nearly 300,000 jobs, according to the household survey of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). At the same time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SWEARING SUE SIMMONS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/13/swearing-sue-simmons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/13/swearing-sue-simmons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 02:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sue Simmons is a bona fide institution in New York City local news media, second only to her co-anchor Chuck Scarborough. Personally, I can&#8217;t remember when they weren&#8217;t occupying Channel 4; they were a firm part of my childhood channel-surfing.
Which is what makes her live-TV &#8220;What the fuck are you doing??&#8221; flub today all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOLDY PEACHES SPA &#038; RESORT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/13/moldy-peaches-spa-resort/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/13/moldy-peaches-spa-resort/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 16:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Way to cash in, Moldy Peaches.
It was only a few months ago when you were compelled to reunite as part of the soundtrack for indieflick-hit Juno. Having gotten a taste of that &#8212; which included mass-audience gawking via &#8220;The View&#8221; &#8212; you&#8217;ve now lent your signature song, &#8220;Anyone Else But You&#8221;, to Atlantis Resort on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIGHT-WING BUMPER, WRIT WRONG</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/12/right-wing-bumper-writ-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/12/right-wing-bumper-writ-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 03:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A bumper sticker I spied not too long ago, upstate (I snapped a cameraphone photo of it, but it came out too crappy to use):
LIBERALS ARE PEOPLE TOO
THERE JUST POLITICALLY INCORRECT!
Yup, &#8220;there&#8221;, instead of &#8220;they&#8217;re&#8221;. No better way to sabotage an otherwise bold statement than via a boneheaded misspelling.
I would attribute this to a recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CABLEVISION BUYS NEWSDAY: AN ART TO A DEAL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/12/cablevision-buys-newsday-an-art-to-a-deal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/12/cablevision-buys-newsday-an-art-to-a-deal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 02:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two ways of looking at Cablevision&#8217;s $650 million purchase of Newsday from Tribune Co.:
1. Underlying the apparent mismatch between a dominant cable provider and an entrenched but struggling newspaper is a potentially lucrative synergy:
But even if the prospective deal has an element of vanity to it, Cablevision could make the following argument. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEYMOUR SKINNER&#8217;S STEAMED HAMS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/12/seymour-skinners-steamed-hams/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/12/seymour-skinners-steamed-hams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 00:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From one of my most fave-o-reet episodes of &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221;, I present &#8220;Skinner &#038; the Superintendent&#8221;, or (as I prefer) &#8220;Steamed Hams&#8221;:
 
And for good measure, the key exchange:
Superintendent Chalmers: I thought we were having steamed clams.
Seymour Skinner: Oh, no, I said steamed hams. That’s what I call hamburgers.
Superintendent Chalmers: You call hamburgers steamed hams?
Seymour [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE SCOURGE OF FAKE NY HATS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/11/the-scourge-of-fake-ny-hats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/11/the-scourge-of-fake-ny-hats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 19:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
What you see pictured above (snapped by me, with my cameraphone in Times Square) is but one outcropping of an epidemic that&#8217;s overtaken New York City: The spread of knockoff baseball caps emblazoned with &#8220;NY&#8221; logos, designed to look just enough like official Yankees or Mets gear to pass the glance test.
Seriously, I&#8217;ve seen these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOCIAL PHOBIA, ICONICIZED</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/11/social-phobia-iconicized/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/11/social-phobia-iconicized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 18:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
The above is a crop from a bus-shelter ad I cameraphone-snapped a month ago, somewhere in midtown Manhattan. I like the composition, in that it used the familiar symbol signs for the human form to get its point across about the alienating effect of social phobia.
Not to mention that I have a touch of that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SARKOZY: BILL CLINTON EN FRANCAIS?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/10/sarkozy-bill-clinton-en-francais/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/10/sarkozy-bill-clinton-en-francais/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 22:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider these assessments by playwright Yasmina Reza of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, gleaned from her yearlong stint as insider on his 2007 campaign trail:
“One of the things that I liked about him — there are many things, but this really seduced me — was his insolence,” she recalled. “But he has not understood that power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE FAILURE OF FACIAL PORTRAITURE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/10/the-failure-of-facial-portraiture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/10/the-failure-of-facial-portraiture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 20:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Something out of my current fiction-reading that rings true for me:
&#8220;&#8230;I&#8217;ve always found the minute portraiture of nineteenth-century fiction fairly useless. For me, those precise descriptions of the hero&#8217;s nose/mouth/eyes/moles/forehead never come together as an actual face. Maybe it&#8217;s a failure of synthetic imagination on my part, but in my mind they always end up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPOD RANDOM 8: ANOTHER RAINY DAY EDITION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/09/ipod-random-8-another-rainy-day-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/09/ipod-random-8-another-rainy-day-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 20:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Funny thing. It was a miserably rainy day the last time I was inspired to post an iPod Random 8 list, and so it is again today. Must be a trend.
Anyway, here&#8217;s the latest shuffle-determined string of output from my iPod Touch (or &#8220;iTouch&#8221;, if you prefer). Length of said string synced to 8trk, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHY VIDEOGAMES HAVEN&#8217;T &#8220;SURPASSED&#8221; MOVIES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/09/why-videogames-havent-surpassed-movies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/09/why-videogames-havent-surpassed-movies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 20:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For several years, the gaming industry has kept up a steady drumbeat about how, based on sales figures, videogames are now a more significant part of the entertainment-media world than the former king of the hill, movies.
Note that &#8220;based on sales figures&#8221; part, because it&#8217;s an obvious reason why the argument doesn&#8217;t hold up:
Software publisher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISABELLA ROSSELLINI&#8217;S INSECT SEX</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/09/isabella-rossellinis-insect-sex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/09/isabella-rossellinis-insect-sex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 18:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s official: Isabella Rossellini has gone crazy.
Or &#8220;buggy&#8221;, which would be more in line with the theme behind her &#8220;Green Porno&#8221; series of insect-sex (&#8221;insext&#8221;?) short films for Sundance Channel. I mean, it&#8217;s one thing to produce nature documentaries on the same reproductive topic &#8212; that give it a veneer of scientificness. But to (sorta) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DINO RUN: EXTINCTION IN A FLASH (GAME)</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/08/dino-run-extinction-in-a-flash-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/08/dino-run-extinction-in-a-flash-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The latest and greatest addicting online timewaster from the Flash gamemasters at Pixeljam: Dino Run (probably have more luck loading the game from the mirror site):
A giant asteroid has crash landed and extinction may just be inevitable. You are a Velociraptor &#8212; and you should probably start running for your life! Run, jump, catch a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ONLINE EPILEPTIC OVERLOAD</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/08/online-epileptic-overload/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/08/online-epileptic-overload/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 02:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was cruel, but admittedly novel as far as Web vandalism goes: The forums section of the Epilepsy Foundation of America was hacked recently, with hundreds of seizure-inducing blink-animated images, and links to such images, being planted on the forum pages.
This reminds me: I&#8217;m thinking that MySpace, in general, would be off-limits to epileptics. Considering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOCKEY HIJINKS IN PENNSYLVANIA</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/08/hockey-hijinks-in-pennsylvania/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/08/hockey-hijinks-in-pennsylvania/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 00:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The National Hockey League Eastern Conference Final begins tomorrow night between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Philadelphia Flyers. This all-Pennsylvania playoff series has the Keystone State all geeked up, as fans from each city are plotting public-monument desecrations in the rival towns.
Top target in Philly: The statue of Rocky.
The attack may have already happened overnight - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REDEFINING RECESSION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/07/redefining-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/07/redefining-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 13:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The general fixation on whether or not the economy&#8217;s in recession overlooks one key element: Just what metrics are being used to define &#8220;recession&#8221;, and if they&#8217;re correct.
Ignorance about recessions has taken hold because of a simplistic idea that a recession is two successive quarterly declines in gross domestic product (GDP), a measure of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ATTENDING LETTERMAN TONIGHT!</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/06/attending-letterman-tonight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/06/attending-letterman-tonight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 17:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
This should be interesting: I just got a guaranteed ticket to see today&#8217;s taping of &#8220;Late Show with David Letterman&#8221;, airing tonight!
How? The weirdest sequence of events: I was walking up Broadway, killing time while getting within the vicinity of a couple of afternoon appointments. At around 50th Street, it occurred to me that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BELTWAY BUCKS AND THE NATIONALS DEFICIT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/06/beltway-bucks-and-the-nationals-deficit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/06/beltway-bucks-and-the-nationals-deficit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 13:17:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
They&#8217;re no longer in Montreal, but the Washington Nationals are still saddled with a familiar problem: Anemic attendance, despite a spanking-new stadium.
Since we can&#8217;t blame a hockey-distracted populace this time around &#8212; or some sort of franchise curse &#8212; a trickle-down effect in DC&#8217;s political mechanics may be to blame for all the empty seats, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAWAII VOG-OH</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/06/hawaii-vog-oh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/06/hawaii-vog-oh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 12:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You learn something new every day. Like about the existence of vog, a volcanic smog that&#8217;s currently plaguing the Hawaiian islands:
Kilauea on the Big Island has been erupting continuously since 1983. But in mid-March, a new vent formed at the summit, giving Kilauea two large sulfur dioxide outlets instead of one.
Sulfur dioxide, a pollutant that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ZOB-NEE: REVERSE INBOX</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/06/zob-nee-reverse-inbox/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/06/zob-nee-reverse-inbox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 12:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Xobni (pronunciation above) is a software startup that makes Microsoft Outlook into something closer to user-friendly.
But, since I haven&#8217;t used a local email client of any kind in years, I don&#8217;t care too much about all that. What I do care about:
&#8220;Xobni&#8221; is &#8220;inbox&#8221; spelled backwards. Not all that original, but creative nonetheless.
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		<title>MCDONALDLAND CLOWN-SLAP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/05/mcdonaldland-clown-slap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/05/mcdonaldland-clown-slap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
What can I say, I derive much amusement from the merest suggestion of McDonald&#8217;s-inspired mayhem. Especially when it&#8217;s mixed with a fear of clowns.
Or is it more of a fear of fast-food pimpness? I can just imagine this statued Ronald&#8217;s accompanying dialogue: &#8220;You better have my money before I bitch-slap your McNuggetty ass!&#8221;
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		<title>CELE-BRIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/05/cele-brids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/05/cele-brids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 15:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Take Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s recurring &#8220;If They Mated&#8221; skit and make it frighteningly real, and you&#8217;ve got The Human Hybrid.
&#8220;Human&#8221; is a bit of stretch, only in that it suggests an egalitarian photographic genepool. In reality, this is all about interpreting reg&#8217;lar folks&#8217; images as a melding of two well-known celebrities. Nothing wrong with that &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MADONNA&#8217;S NEW LOOK: SWEATS CHIC</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/04/madonnas-new-look-sweats-chic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/04/madonnas-new-look-sweats-chic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 02:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Madonna&#8217;s got a new album out, so that means there&#8217;s an expectation of a new &#8220;reinvention&#8221; look/style for the Material Girl. Past iterations of this impulse brought us lingerie-as-outerwear and vogueing in the 80s, and dominatrix-couture in the 90s &#8212; so I guess we&#8217;re due for an infusion of Madonna-guided fashion sense.
If her promotional history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SWAT MOMMIES AT WORK</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/04/swat-mommies-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/04/swat-mommies-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 21:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It used to be that executive-level businesswomen had to kiss the corporate world goodbye once they embarked upon the mommytrack. But the Internet, outsourcing, and networking have combined to offer up new opportunities for SWAT (&#8221;Smart Women with Available Time&#8221;) teams, made up of at-home ex-professionals being tapped to work on temporary business-development projects.
Skilled workers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOBSTER-FLICK CLIP JOINT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/04/mobster-flick-clip-joint/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/04/mobster-flick-clip-joint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2008 20:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a bit of a hike, but I&#8217;ll have to keep Larry&#8217;s Barber Shop, on the northern fringe of Hell&#8217;s Kitchen, in mind for my next haircut. Not only will I get a new &#8216;do, I&#8217;ll also get a chance to watch a random mobster movie while I wait.
From the mirrored reflections of the talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SURROGATE COMEDYHOOD</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/03/surrogate-comedyhood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/03/surrogate-comedyhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 23:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another example of the incestuous ideamill that makes up Hollywood:
- &#8220;The Return of Jezebel James&#8221; was a recent sitcom on FOX about a straitlaced professional woman (Parker Posey) who wants a baby, but can&#8217;t conceive on her own. So she enlists a surrogate mother (Lauren Ambrose), who happens to be a scatter-shot, roughneck polar opposite. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GUV&#8217;S PREEMPTIVE LEAKAGE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/03/the-guvs-preemptive-leakage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/03/the-guvs-preemptive-leakage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 22:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who was wondering what prompted new New York governor David Paterson to go on a confessional spree shortly after inauguration, he now claims that elements within the state police were zeroing in and would have outed him anyway.
Paterson first disclosed to the Daily News in March that both he and his wife, Michelle, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BUSINESS-DOT-BOMB</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/02/business-dot-bomb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/02/business-dot-bomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 16:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gee, what a surprise. It looks like R.H. Donnelly&#8217;s $350-million purchase of Business.com last year has run aground, as both the company&#8217;s value and the acquisition&#8217;s accompanying talent have evaporated.
In the past year, its shares have plunged 95% on worries about the company&#8217;s hefty debt-load, a softening economy, and investor worry about whether the door-stopping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NATIONAL CHARACTER AND MANHATTAN&#8217;S INCONGRUITY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/02/national-character-and-manhattans-incongruity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/02/national-character-and-manhattans-incongruity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 15:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret that the bold &#8220;city that never sleeps&#8221; tagline primarily applies to nocturnal opportunities. And so it is that some guidance is required for navigating early-morning pursuits in Manhattan on the weekends, when most of the natives are sleeping it off.
This is in contrast to people elsewhere in America, who often maximize their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEZMI: TELEVISION 2.0, VIA AGGREGATION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/01/sezmi-television-20-via-aggregation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/01/sezmi-television-20-via-aggregation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 02:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sezmi is an upstart pay-TV service that&#8217;s pitching itself as something close to a one-stop video-entertainment hub for the household:
Sezmi&#8217;s system takes some explaining. At its heart is a TV set-top box that receives video content in three different ways. Two are available through other means: digital over-the-air local broadcasts, the kind that are available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUBWAY CRUSHIN&#8217; ON HARP GIRL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/01/subway-crushin-on-harp-girl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/05/01/subway-crushin-on-harp-girl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 18:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The above picture of the L Line Bedford Avenue platform harp-playing performance artist is re-presented here as an anonymous favor to an anonymous poster on Subway Crush:
Some weekends I see you playing a giant ass harp at the Bedford stop and I think to myself &#8220;holy shit that is a huge harp!&#8221; A girl with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOCIAL-NETWORK ADS: A SEAT AT SOMEONE ELSE’S TABLE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/30/social-network-ads-a-seat-at-someone-elses-table/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/30/social-network-ads-a-seat-at-someone-elses-table/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, I got a PR-blast email offering up an interview opportunity with the CEO of SocialMedia Networks. Just another Web advertising middleman, but with a twist: It&#8217;s exclusively targeting the Facebooks and MySpaces of the online world.
I didn&#8217;t take the bait, partly because I knew someone else would.
Ads on social network [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YOUTUBING CAMERAS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/29/youtubing-cameras/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/29/youtubing-cameras/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While rushing through the Upper East Side today, a sign in an electronics store display caught my eye:
DIGITAL CAMERAS
YOUTUBE-ENABLED
I half-suspected that this was a snake-oil claim. But in fact, Casio&#8217;s Exilim camera line touts its YouTube-branded point-click-upload onboard software interface, which is designed to make recording and posting of videos seamless. Furthermore, Casio got an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PASTA HUT&#8217;S TRIPLE-FAKE-FAUX RESTAURANT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/29/pasta-huts-triple-fake-faux-restaurant/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/29/pasta-huts-triple-fake-faux-restaurant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Try to follow along here:
To introduce their new non-pizza offerings, Pizza Hut had some fun with an April Fool&#8217;s announcement that it was rebranding itself as &#8220;Pasta Hut&#8221;.
As a follow-up to this campaign, it&#8217;s been running a TV commercial to promote these new dishes, called Tuscani Pastas. The spot follows a time-honored format &#8212; hidden-camera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KOCKROACH: REVERSE METAMORPHOSIS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/29/kockroach-reverse-metamorphosis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/29/kockroach-reverse-metamorphosis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no ambiguity about the inspiration for Tyler Knox&#8217;s &#8220;Kockroach: A Novel&#8221;, as the book&#8217;s opening line should tell you:
As Kockroach, an arthropod of the genus Blatella and of the species germanica, awakens one morning from a typically dreamless sleep, he finds himself transformed into some large, vile creature.
And if it doesn&#8217;t tell you, then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BLOGS ARE GAY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/28/blogs-are-gay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/28/blogs-are-gay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Demographically speaking, that is. Research polling firm Harris Interactive finds that homosexuals are a more receptive blog-reading audience than heteros, 51 percent versus 36 percent.
That includes both content and acceptance of blog advertising &#8212; meaning cha-ching for all those gay-themed AdSense ad units just waiting to render!
Despite this news, I kinda doubt too many gay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEPROGRAMMING THE CRIMINAL CULT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/28/deprogramming-the-criminal-cult/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/28/deprogramming-the-criminal-cult/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re all familiar with the socio-cultural explanations for why some people find themselves in a cycle of criminal activity and prison time. But I don&#8217;t think that I&#8217;ve ever come across a more succinct illustration of the syndrome than this, regarding an ex-convict work program in New Jersey:
It takes at least a year, [mechanic training [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WHEN IT RAINS, IT BLOWS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/28/when-it-rains-it-blows/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/28/when-it-rains-it-blows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a soaking-wet day in New York, with a steady downpour that&#8217;s forecasted to last the whole day. Far from optimal conditions for someone who&#8217;s got client meetings to flit to and from all day long.
Is it just me, or does it seem like there&#8217;s no such thing as a &#8220;normal&#8221; rainy day anymore? Specifically, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YOUNG MC + MONTY PYTHON = TWITTER</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/27/young-mc-monty-python-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/27/young-mc-monty-python-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;At least, that&#8217;s how Wil Wheaton sees it as he expresses much love for everyone&#8217;s favorite microblogging platform.
I always appreciate gratuitous &#8220;Bust A Move&#8221; references, but I question the invocation of the &#8220;spam-spam-spam&#8221; skit, as that invites unfavorable connotations for any Internet-based communications/feedback system.
As for me, I wouldn&#8217;t call myself a Twitter hater, but at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ART (SANS WORDS) OF THE MAGAZINE COVER</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/27/the-art-sans-words-of-the-magazine-cover/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/27/the-art-sans-words-of-the-magazine-cover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
My publishing roots compel me to hit the new MoMA exhibit on George Lois&#8216; iconic Esquire covers from the 1960s and 70s.
While the heady news topics of those times provided ample raw material for Esquire and Lois to weave their magic, there was a much more fundamental design concept at play:
What was remarkable then — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ORTHODOX EASTER: LESS MATH, MORE JEWS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/27/orthodox-easter-less-math-more-jews/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/27/orthodox-easter-less-math-more-jews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today would be Easter for the other Christians. Since I&#8217;m in that sect &#8212; Greek Orthodox, although don&#8217;t test me on devoutness &#8212; I&#8217;ll be spending time with the extended family, chiefly in the form of eating. The highlight for me will be doling out the chocolate Easter bunnies and Peeps to the little niece [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPEN-SALARY ETIQUETTE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/26/open-salary-etiquette/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/26/open-salary-etiquette/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Further evidence that the 20-something MySpace generation has no shame: Disclosing annual salary among friends is now considered practically de rigueur.
 For people old enough to remember phone booths, a blunt reference to salary in a social setting still represents the height of bad manners. But for many young professionals, the don’t-ask-don’t-tell etiquette of previous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DRAFT-DAY REDUCTION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/26/draft-day-reduction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2008/04/26/draft-day-reduction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
So today at around 1PM, I flipped the TV channel to ESPN, fully expecting to see the first round of this year&#8217;s NFL Draft in full swing. I haven&#8217;t been particularly interested in the lead-up, but I wanted to get a token fix of Mel Kiper et al.
But, shocker of shockers &#8212; no draft coverage. [...]]]></description>
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