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	<title>Population Statistic</title>
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		<title>IPOD RANDOM 5: IPHONING-IT-IN EDITION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/12/ipod-random-5-iphoning-it-in-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/12/ipod-random-5-iphoning-it-in-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:44:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPod Random Tracks]]></category>

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No, it didn&#8217;t take long after getting my iPhone 3GS for me to file an iPod Random Tracks post. Battery-drain be damned, I&#8217;ve gotta keep the music flowing during the daily commutes!
So this is the first edition of this little shuffled-up tunestream report to come out of my telephonic device. I&#8217;ve still got my iTouch, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ENDURING PAPER CUTS IN THE DIGITAL AGE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/12/enduring-paper-cuts-in-the-digital-age/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/12/enduring-paper-cuts-in-the-digital-age/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[YEOW! Just got a paper cut on my pinkie. Hurts like the devil.
Shouldn&#8217;t paper cuts would be a thing of the past? If that &#8220;paperless office&#8221; that Newsweek had predicted back in 1975 would get here already, I wouldn&#8217;t be in this pain right now. Nor would I be compelled to consult dubious preventative cures.
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		<title>PROTESTING WITH CHAIN-LINK LOCKS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/11/protesting-with-chain-link-locks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/11/protesting-with-chain-link-locks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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The above photo is from today&#8217;s New York Daily News article on the residential/merchant displacements caused by Brooklyn&#8217;s Atlantic Yards project. I find this visual &#8212; a bunch of padlocks &#8220;strung&#8221; together in a row on a construction-site chain-link fence &#8212; that I wanted to preserve it here (and on Flickr).
It&#8217;s not explicitly stated, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A ONE-WAY TWITTERVERSE?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/10/a-one-way-twitterverse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/10/a-one-way-twitterverse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Online]]></category>

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If the idea behind Twitter is to encourage constant bite-sized chatter, the majority of the online flock ain&#8217;t chirping:
It seems that Twitter is becoming more of news feed than a social network, said Paul Judge, author of the report and chief research officer at Barracuda Networks. And that raises questions about its growth potential, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POPULATING EARTHQUAKES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/10/populating-earthquakes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/10/populating-earthquakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the same sense that trees falling in the forest don&#8217;t make a sound, the recent global wave of earthquakes have taken on deadly significance only due to the presence of more people:
&#8220;Look at some of the big ones recently,&#8221; said Debarati Guha-Sapir, director of the World Health Organization&#8217;s disaster epidemiology research center. &#8220;Had the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TURNED-ON PROTECTION (NO REBOOTING)</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/09/turned-on-protection-no-rebooting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/09/turned-on-protection-no-rebooting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spring is in the air in New York, so that must mean it&#8217;s time for the City&#8217;s official condoms to get a provocative wrapper-redesign:
More than 15,000 online voters have spoken: City-sponsored condoms will come packaged with a computer power button logo. &#8220;There&#8217;s a subtle message in the shape, so I figured if I don&#8217;t get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MARCH AND THE CRUELLEST OF WARDROBES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/08/march-and-the-cruellest-of-wardrobes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/08/march-and-the-cruellest-of-wardrobes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d already tweeted this earlier today, but it&#8217;s worthy of expanded cross-posting to the mother-blog:
March, the most wardrobe-challenging of months. I&#8217;m shiver-cold in the mornings, and sweaty-ish by late afternoons.
It&#8217;s the in-between weather that&#8217;s not-quite-Winter, and not-quite-Spring, that makes dressing up such an ordeal for this 31-day span. Which, vapidness aside, is why I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SIGNIFYING THE SENT-FROM</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/08/signifying-the-sent-from/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/08/signifying-the-sent-from/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPod]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
As with any techie-computer default setting, the &#8220;Sent from my iPhone&#8221; email signature has become a familiar sight in inboxes everywhere.
When the Mail app came to my iTouch, I naturally resented the inclusion of that inaccurate descriptor on my outgoing email messages. So I made a point of editing it to: &#8220;Sent from my iPod [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SILICON ALLEY&#8217;S RE-REBIRTH</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/08/silicon-alleys-re-rebirth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/08/silicon-alleys-re-rebirth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been said before, so why not say it again: New York City&#8217;s Internet industry is on a comeback trail.
“Book publishing, advertising, media and even the fashion industry are all located in New York. These are the main industries that are being reshaped and redefined by technology and the Internet,” says AnnaLee Saxenian, a professor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUNDAY&#8217;S FORTUNATE (AND UNFORTUNATE) FOOTFALLS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/07/sundays-fortunate-and-unfortunate-footfalls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/07/sundays-fortunate-and-unfortunate-footfalls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Online]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the space of 20 minutes of walk-around time this afternoon, my feet led me to two distinctly different ground-level encounters:
- As I first set out, a quick glance down to my shoes yielded my find of a shiny 25-cent piece, about which I duly tweeted.
- As I was heading back along almost the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YOU CAN SPELL MTV WITHOUT G-E-N-X</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/07/you-can-spell-mtv-without-g-e-n-x/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/07/you-can-spell-mtv-without-g-e-n-x/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[News flash to my generation: A certain former music channel is cutting the cord:
&#8220;We&#8217;re pushing Generation X out,&#8221; [MTV Networks President Van] Toffler said. &#8220;We&#8217;re slaves to our different audiences, for MTV that&#8217;s millennials, who are vastly different than Generation X; they&#8217;re definitely less cynical &#8212; they&#8217;re more civic minded.&#8221; 
News flash to Toffler: For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE DILUTED OSCARS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/07/the-diluted-oscars/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/07/the-diluted-oscars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From here, any building buzz for tonight&#8217;s Oscars ceremony has been pretty well displaced by the Cablevision-Disney blackout of the broadcast in the tri-state area.
But, all told, disgruntled Cablevision subscribers shouldn&#8217;t feel that bad. Because in an indirect way, the loss of some 3.1 million viewers dovetails with the overall lessening of impact that an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STRAINING WITH STRAHAN&#8217;S SPORTS AUTHORITY SPOT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/06/straining-with-strahans-sports-authority-spot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/06/straining-with-strahans-sports-authority-spot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t decide which one of two things is more off-putting about Michael Strahan&#8217;s new TV commercial for Sports Authority:

Is it:
- Strahan&#8217;s gratingly-pitched &#8220;WOW!&#8221; exclamation after he hits that big homerun?
Or:
- That freaky/creepy-looking sales clerk that approaches him directly afterward? Seriously, that pale-white skintone and that shoe-polish black hair and eyebrows &#8212; the guy looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPHONING, FINALLY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/06/iphoning-finally/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/06/iphoning-finally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 22:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPod]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
After a couple of years of toting around my iPod Touch, and thus being ID&#8217;d as a lookalike iPhoney/iFaux, I&#8217;ve finally taken the next logical step: I&#8217;ve gotten an iPhone 3GS.
And I have to say, Verizon Wireless provided the final push I needed to cross over. Their new pricing plans, which practically force you to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MARKETABLE, OF A SUDDEN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/05/marketable-of-a-sudden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/05/marketable-of-a-sudden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just like that, it seems I&#8217;m a free agent. In more than one sense, and simultaneously, all in the space of a couple of hours.
Can&#8217;t remember the last time this rapid-fire phenomenon happened to me. That&#8217;s probably why I&#8217;m less distraught, and more relieved. At least for the moment &#8212; in which I&#8217;ll live, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NAKED SNOWLADY&#8217;S FLAKY RECEPTION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/04/naked-snowladys-flaky-reception/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/04/naked-snowladys-flaky-reception/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[True Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Know that if you find yourself in New Jersey this winter, you needn&#8217;t worry about being offended by brazenly-bare snow-hussies:
Cops ordered a New Jersey family to cover up their saucy snowlady after receiving a complaint that the frosty front yard figure was X-rated.
While neighboring snowmen were allowed to flaunt their nudity with coal-eyed jauntiness, Elisa [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW DIRTY, THE BLONDE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/04/how-dirty-the-blonde/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/04/how-dirty-the-blonde/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Me: &#8230;Wish I had a date for this thing.
He: No worries, I&#8217;ll be your date!
Me: Hah, yeah, no.
He: Ca-mon, why not?
Me: For one thing, I don&#8217;t like blondes.
He: But I&#8217;m a dirty blonde.
Me: Not dirty enough, dude.
I pride myself on having delivered such a double-entendre killing stroke to this jokey exchange.
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		<title>LINKS, MADE IN THE SHADE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/03/links-made-in-the-shade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/03/links-made-in-the-shade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the same goofy vein as HugeURL, here comes ShadyURL:
Don&#8217;t just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening.
So that populationstatistic.com becomes http://5z8.info/stoleniphones_i7q8e_molotovcocktail. Randomly so, I should add &#8212; no real rhyme or reason to it. And as you can see, it doesn&#8217;t really do the job as a URL shortener. So yeah, it&#8217;s all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TALKING-HEADED TRUISMS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/02/talking-headed-truisms/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/02/talking-headed-truisms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>

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From Talking Heads&#8217; &#8220;Stop Making Sense&#8221; soundtrack &#8212; which I just recently had occasion to rediscover, in physical CD format &#8212; here is the album&#8217;s list of Jenny Holzer-inspired truisms:
TIPS FOR PERFORMERS: Playing cards have the top half upside-down to help cheaters. There are a finite number of jokes in the universe. Singing is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WATCHING HOCKEY, OR WATCHING THE OLYMPICS?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/01/watching-hockey-or-watching-the-olympics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/01/watching-hockey-or-watching-the-olympics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Much ado over &#8220;the most-watched hockey game in 30 years&#8221;, with an estimated 27.6 million Americans watching the U.S.-Canada gold medal game. The context:
To put the numbers in perspective, Sunday&#8217;s game drew a higher overnight rating than every World Series game since 2004 (including every game of Yankees/Phillies last year), every NBA Finals telecast since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VANCOUVER 2010: CANADIAN GOLD, WHERE IT COUNTS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/28/vancouver-2010-canadian-gold-where-it-counts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/28/vancouver-2010-canadian-gold-where-it-counts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

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After falling short of a pre-Games boast to dominate the medal podiums, Olympic host Canada compensated with a record-breaking haul of 14 Golds.
And really, it&#8217;s that 14th Gold that counts the most:
Canada is the Olympic champion in men&#8217;s hockey, and the whole country can finally celebrate its Winter Games.
Canada survived one of the greatest games [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SNOWED-OUT BLOGGING STREAK</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/28/snowed-out-blogging-streak/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/28/snowed-out-blogging-streak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;And we&#8217;re back.
Anyone who pokes around this URL on a regular basis knows that there&#8217;s only one rule, content-wise: At least one post per day, every day. So the past two days of blog silence &#8212; the first since mid-2008 &#8212; should have a good reason behind them, right?
Well, they do: A big, honkin&#8217; winter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MUCH ADO ABOUT MOUNTAIN MONIKERS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/25/much-ado-about-mountain-monikers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/25/much-ado-about-mountain-monikers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordsmithing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For whatever reason, the state of California is suddenly concerned with renaming mountaintops:
- In the San Francisco Bay Area, some religious nut objects to the devilishness inherent in Mt. Diablo, and proposes calling the peak Mt. Reagan instead. This effort appears to be headed nowhere.
- In SoCal, the unfortunately-named Negrohead Mountain (formerly even more unfortunately-named [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A FROZEN SLIP OF THE LIP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/24/a-frozen-slip-of-the-lip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/24/a-frozen-slip-of-the-lip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mental note for next winter: Stock up on plastic utensils.
Or invest in less ice cream. Or in more common sense. Anything to avoid a repeat of last night&#8217;s dining debacle: Tearing off a thin chunk of my lower lip when I used a metal spoon to eat dessert (that whole tongue-on-frozen-pole effect). Along with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ONE WOMAN&#8217;S CULLING TECHNIQUES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/24/one-womans-culling-techniques/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/24/one-womans-culling-techniques/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to say that the following paragraph is the part of this compellingly raw-boned confessional from a boy-crazy girl that got me hooked:
so often i worry and act out when i don’t get the attention i want from every  guy who comes my way. i don’t take the time to consider if i [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WAGERING ON THE TIP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/23/wagering-on-the-tip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/23/wagering-on-the-tip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The following exchange between two food servers may or may not have really happened. Okay, here&#8217;s a hint: It didn&#8217;t. But I liked the concept and the conversational timbre that somehow came to me, so I&#8217;m posting it. Besides, I need to exercise my dialogue-crafting.
Waiter 1: I&#8217;ll betya that one&#8217;s a cheap-ass tipper over there.
Waiter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE AGE OF DISTRACTION&#8217;S &#8220;LOST GENERATION&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/22/the-age-of-distractions-lost-generation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/22/the-age-of-distractions-lost-generation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With our phones and other mobile devices delivering a virtual context for our attention span, our physical surrounding are increasingly taking a back seat:
Doomsayers have long predicted that technological progress would turn us into shut-ins who rarely venture from our game-playing, IM-ing digital cocoons out into the physical world. But the stereotype of the computer-addicted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VANCOUVER 2010: MIRACLE REDUX?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/21/vancouver-2010-miracle-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/21/vancouver-2010-miracle-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
In the immediate afterglow of Team USA&#8217;s 5-3 win over Canada in men&#8217;s hockey, the comparisons are already being made between tonight&#8217;s impressive upset and the 1980 Miracle On Ice win over the Soviets.
Not to detract from this win, but I don&#8217;t see it. The Americans might have been an underdog coming into these games, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OIL PRICES AND THE MISPLACED AFRICAN COUP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/21/oil-prices-and-the-misplaced-african-coup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/21/oil-prices-and-the-misplaced-african-coup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordsmithing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Niger is one African country, Nigeria is another. This subtle distinction seems to elude geographically-challenged oil traders:
“Markets took off at around the same time a Reuters story came out about gunfire erupting in the Niger capital in an apparent coup bid, mistaken by many as being Nigeria,” said Tom Bentz, analyst at BNP Paribas Commodities.
Reuters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A DIFFERENT WAY OF GOING STRAPLESS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/21/a-different-way-of-going-strapless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/21/a-different-way-of-going-strapless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whereas a strap-free gown provides the occasion to show off a woman&#8217;s shoulders, the strap-free &#8220;Feeldoe&#8221; provides the occasion to, well:
Insert the bulbous &#8220;pony&#8221; end vaginally (or rectally), spread the labia, and nestle those nifty little ridges of the &#8220;saddle&#8221; against your clitoris. We trust y&#8217;all will figure out what to do with the &#8220;horse&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RUSHIN&#8217; CHATROULETTE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/20/rushin-chatroulette/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/20/rushin-chatroulette/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll give the creators of Chatroulette credit for a unique concept in webcam-based chatting: Displaying your chat window side-by-side with some random stranger&#8217;s, then letting either of you hit the F9 button to bail and dial up another, more suitable random-chatter.
In practice, though, the concept hits cold reality. I&#8217;ve given the site a couple of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BLIPPY-CASTING YOUR SPENDING HABITS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/20/blippy-casting-your-spending-habits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/20/blippy-casting-your-spending-habits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If tweeting your every waking thought and action just isn&#8217;t enough, Blippy is here to let you add your credit-card purchases to your online lifestream:
It might sound like ridiculous oversharing, but Blippy is serious. While there already are plenty of Web sites focused on what people are purchasing, the site’s founders think it offers a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AIR-STRUMMING FOR ALL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/19/air-strumming-for-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/19/air-strumming-for-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
With apologies to Journey, the above photographic evidence of radio-station sponsored rackfuls of &#8220;free air guitars&#8221; should ensure that you (yes, you) don&#8217;t stop make-believin&#8217;.
I presume this public giveaway was sanctioned &#8212; and even encouraged &#8212; by the U.S. Air Guitar Association. And even if they didn&#8217;t, it was approved at Dustbury, which is all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEAR WAL AND GREEN STREETS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/18/near-wal-and-green-streets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/18/near-wal-and-green-streets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
How much of a jolt is yesterday&#8217;s announced $1.08-billion sale of local pharmacy chain Duane Reade to Walgreen to New Yorkers?
Well, not that much, really. True, Duane Reades are one of those far-too-ubiquitous cornerstore fixtures in Manhattan, right there with bank branches and Starbucks. And I suppose there&#8217;s some provincial pride in having a locally-sprouted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CONJURING UP CRIME</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/17/conjuring-up-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/17/conjuring-up-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[True Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The good news: Crime rates in America are at their lowest point in decades. The bad news: Americans refuse to believe it, and persist in staying scared.
Part of the reason for this divergence is what sociologists call pessimistic bias: the unshakable conviction that things are not just worse than they are, but also worse than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMERICAN-CANADIAN TWIG LEANINGS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/16/american-canadian-twig-leanings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/16/american-canadian-twig-leanings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For all the years I&#8217;ve been watching hockey, I&#8217;m stunned that I&#8217;ve never noticed this fundamental divergence in North American stick-curve predilections:
According to sales figures from stick manufacturers, a majority of Canadian hockey players shoot left-handed, and a majority of American players shoot right-handed. No reason is known for this disparity, which cuts across all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SECOND-TRIMESTER CURLING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/16/second-trimester-curling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/16/second-trimester-curling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Other Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I can&#8217;t say that the sport of curling is raising its esteem in my eyes with the participation of a pregnant stone-slider on the Canadian Olympic women&#8217;s team.
Granted, Kristie Moore is an alternate, so chances are good she won&#8217;t actually play. But she is on the squad, which means she&#8217;ll share in the anticipated bounty:
Team [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CONSPIRACY THEORIES AS SECURITY BLANKETS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/15/conspiracy-theories-as-security-blankets/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/15/conspiracy-theories-as-security-blankets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Critical 'I']]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Note: The following post is originally from March 22, 2003, as published on my old blog, The Critical &#8216;I&#8217;. For my own convenience, I&#8217;m reproducing it into this site&#8217;s archives (with modest edits).
What&#8217;s so sexy about conspiracy theories? Why are people so drawn to notions that add seemingly unnecessary complexity to events that, on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE FETISH OF THE APOCALYPSE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/15/the-fetish-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/15/the-fetish-of-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The appeal of disaster movies has ebbed and flowed for decades. A recent spate of theatrical releases indicates that, currently, the flow is go: The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Book of Eli, The Road, The Happening, and Legion all attest to our public preoccupation with endtimes.
Whatever the sociological underpinnings for this fascination, better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE VALENTINE&#8217;S-PRESIDENTS&#8217; AXIS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/15/the-valentines-presidents-axis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/15/the-valentines-presidents-axis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s happened before. But I can&#8217;t remember the last time Valentine&#8217;s Day was immediately followed by Presidents&#8217; Day.
It&#8217;s a weird confluence of holiday sentiment. One day you&#8217;re feeling all romantic, the next day &#8212; I dunno, Constitutional? Very disorienting. Good thing I&#8217;ve got a day off to figure that all out.
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		<title>THE ANTI-VALENTINE&#8217;S PARTY SENTIMENT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/14/the-anti-valentines-party-sentiment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/14/the-anti-valentines-party-sentiment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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There&#8217;s a curious phenomenon surrounding Valentine&#8217;s Day, and the backlash against it:
The plentiful anti-Valentine&#8217;s activities seem to always involve group-gathers, i.e. parties and other crowd-sourcing events. Even the strident ultra-nationalist protests in India against the Western influence of the Valentine&#8217;s holiday are based upon a mass appeal. By contrast, the conventional Valentine&#8217;s Day celebration is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VANCOUVER 2010, BY THE EYEBALLS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/14/vancouver-2010-by-the-eyeballs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/14/vancouver-2010-by-the-eyeballs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Last week, on the eve of the Winter Games commencement, I was asked on two separate occasions whether or not anyone really, actually watched the Olympics.
Being the sports snob that I am, I scoffed back that no, no one watches the Olympics &#8212; other than the 100 million or so who tune in every couple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCHOOLBUS TAMING VIA WI-FI</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/13/schoolbus-taming-via-wi-fi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/13/schoolbus-taming-via-wi-fi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wi-Fi]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s taken this long for this idea to come about: Wireless Internet on schoolbuses, for keeping otherwise restless students productively occupied.
“It’s made a big difference,” said J. J. Johnson, [driver of an Internet-enabled schoolbus in Vail, Arizona]. “Boys aren’t hitting each other, girls are busy, and there’s not so much jumping around.”
On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFTER-THE-FACT SPIN ON PLAGIARISM AS &#8220;MIXING&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/13/after-the-fact-spin-on-plagiarism-as-mixing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/13/after-the-fact-spin-on-plagiarism-as-mixing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of yet another high-profile plagiarism incident in the publishing world, we come upon the modern media proliferation justification for cribbing others&#8217; work:
Although [16-year-old novelist Helene] Hegemann has apologized for not being more open about her sources, she has also defended herself as the representative of a different generation, one that freely mixes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>49 STATES OF SNOW</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/13/49-states-of-snow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/13/49-states-of-snow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a stat that only weather geeks can appreciate: Yesterday saw bonafide snow cover on the ground in 49 of the 50 United States.
The idea of 50 states with snow is so strange that the federal office that collects weather statistics doesn&#8217;t keep track of that number and can&#8217;t say whether it has ever happened. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MONSTER MASHES FLYING TOMATO</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/13/monster-mashes-flying-tomato/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/13/monster-mashes-flying-tomato/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Don&#8217;t go searching for the term &#8220;Flying Tomato&#8221; on Shaun White&#8217;s personal website, because that Torino-born nickname is now dead to the Olympian:
&#8220;Apparently I resemble the drummer from the Muppets,&#8221; White said. &#8220;I guess I&#8217;m Shaun &#8216;The Animal&#8217; White now. I&#8217;ve kind of outgrown &#8216;The Flying Tomato&#8217;. It&#8217;s kind of like going from old pants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD SCHOLAR</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/12/the-long-and-winding-road-scholar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/12/the-long-and-winding-road-scholar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 00:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The name of a trucking company I spied earlier today, appropriately on the side of a tractor-trailer:
Road Scholar Transport
Cute. It is a real company. Odds are that it does not employ an actual Rhodes Scholar. Not that anyone says it has to.
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		<title>GOING FORWARD ON THE POINT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/11/going-forward-on-the-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/11/going-forward-on-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7103</guid>
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I&#8217;ve thought about it, and I&#8217;ve come to this conclusion: Using a forward to man the point on a power play is nothing short of a travesty.
This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve considered this. But of late, the news of the New Jersey Devils using newly-acquired Ilya Kovalchuk up high during the man-advantage has crystallized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE IDIOCY OF TAP-TO-CLICK TOUCHPADS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/10/the-idiocy-of-tap-to-click-touchpads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/10/the-idiocy-of-tap-to-click-touchpads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Fess up now: Does anyone actually prefer the tap-to-click cursor/click behavior that&#8217;s become the default for Windows notebook computers?
I had the misfortune to be saddled with such a machine during my workday today. Worse luck, the necessary drivers for turning off that behavior weren&#8217;t loaded onto this particular machine (believe me, I spent far too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KARAOKING &#8220;MY WAY&#8221; TO THE FINAL CURTAIN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/10/karaoking-my-way-to-the-final-curtain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/10/karaoking-my-way-to-the-final-curtain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s all well and good to be packing Frank Sinatra&#8217;s &#8220;My Way&#8221; in your personal karaoke repertoire. But be sure your rendition is a flawless tribute to Old Blue Eyes before performing it in Manila:
The authorities do not know exactly how many people have been killed warbling “My Way” in karaoke bars over the years [...]]]></description>
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