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		<title>MISSED CONNECTIONS, FOUND INSPIRATION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/08/missed-connections-found-inspiration/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/08/missed-connections-found-inspiration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You might think that the best way to gauge the success of Craigslist&#8217;s Missed Connections is by the number of people its gotten together. But no &#8212; in fact, the true measure of that online meat market&#8217;s effectiveness is its late role as creative raw material:
Billed as “ripped straight from the online pages of Craigslist,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LENO-LETTERMAN SUPER BOWL SURPRISE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/07/leno-letterman-super-bowl-surprise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/07/leno-letterman-super-bowl-surprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a fairly staid commercial lineup for Super Bowl XLIV, the clear winner for me was this utterly improbable pairing of David Letterman and Jay Leno (with Oprah in the moderating middle):

Maybe even funnier than the ad itself is the lengths taken to keep its inception secret:
The spot was shot last Tuesday afternoon, under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VISITATIONS UPON A SUPER BOWL SUNDAY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/07/visitations-upon-a-super-bowl-sunday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/07/visitations-upon-a-super-bowl-sunday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Of all the days out of the year for my cousin from Greece to visit her cousins in New York, why did it have to be Super Bowl Sunday?
Such is the lot I&#8217;ve drawn today. I really don&#8217;t feel like leaving the house; even if it weren&#8217;t for the big game, it&#8217;s bitterly cold outside. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DENTYNE&#8217;S DESIGNER PLASTIC-WRAP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/06/dentynes-designer-plastic-wrap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/06/dentynes-designer-plastic-wrap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida Livin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t chew gum.
So why is there a picture of Dentyne gum in this post? Simple: Dentyne&#8217;s marketers reached out to me for some blog-vertising action (just one of a recent spate of requests to come this way). They sent on two &#8220;bottles&#8221; worth of the gum, so I guess I&#8217;m obliged.
That&#8217;s one thing: &#8220;Bottles&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIALING IN THE 9-2-9</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/06/dialing-in-the-9-2-9/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/06/dialing-in-the-9-2-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, the announcement of a new telephone area code was a big deal, especially in a major city like New York.
Now? Ho-hum. Between number overlays and location-independent cellphones, those first three digits don&#8217;t mean an awful lot anymore. Sure, a metropolitan-based telephone prefix certainly retains some luster, especially the iconic (212). But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRIPLE FORTUNE IN A COOKIE SHELL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/06/triple-fortune-in-a-cookie-shell/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/06/triple-fortune-in-a-cookie-shell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ponder the inequities of existence, condensed into my Chinese-food dinner last night:
My fortune cookie had not one, but three fortunes tucked inside it. Meanwhile, the empty fortune cookie remains bereft of any paper-slip of wisdom (plus lucky numbers on the back!).
Then again, my triplicate-bearing treat was quickly gobbled up by yours truly. The EFC, though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GREYING OF THE BLOGOSPHERE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/05/the-greying-of-the-blogosphere/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/05/the-greying-of-the-blogosphere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While blogs are routinely identified as part of the social media landscape, they&#8217;re losing ground among the youngsters:
Two Pew Internet Project surveys of teens and adults reveal a decline in blogging among teens and young adults and a modest rise among adults 30 and older. 
What&#8217;s behind this trend? Basically, blogs represent too much work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PEGU-EGG-YOU CLUB</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/04/the-pegu-egg-you-club/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/04/the-pegu-egg-you-club/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once the province of boxers in training, raw eggs have been a chic ingredient in New York City cocktails for the past year. So it was only a matter of time before the city cracked down on all this eggshell-cracking mixology:
Nevertheless, on that fateful evening, an inspector from the New York City Department of Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCARED SMURFLESS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/04/scared-smurfless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/04/scared-smurfless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one man&#8217;s reaction to a sneak peek of a CGI-rendered Smurf, from the upcoming animated feature film:
AAAAAAAA KILL IT WITH FIRE
A little extreme; I&#8217;d say the false sense of scale is making Prototype Smurf look abnormally large, and thus faux-monstrous. But anything that elicits such mock-horror doesn&#8217;t deserve any screentime around this blog, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PLASTIC OVER SHELTER</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/03/plastic-over-shelter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/03/plastic-over-shelter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:55:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Underwater homeowners are voting with their wallets, and paper (i.e., the house deed) is losing out to plastic:
In the past, strapped consumers typically would let their credit cards slide and make sure their mortgages were covered, said Sean Reardon, the [Trans Union study's] author and a consultant at the Chicago-based credit bureau. But those priorities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NUMERUM EN DYSLEXIUM</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/03/numerum-en-dyslexium/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/03/numerum-en-dyslexium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[True story, via my tweetstream today:
I&#8217;m dealing with someone who&#8217;s dyslexic when it comes to Roman numerals. Yeah, really.
The catalyst for this backward-Latin enumeration: Saw VI, which my collaborator keeps mis-communicating to me as &#8220;Saw IV&#8220;. Luckily, we&#8217;re really only dealing with the later sequel, so no permanent confusion; but still.
I haven&#8217;t had a chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CANINE TRIBUTES, UPPER WEST TO LOWER EAST</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/02/canine-tributes-upper-west-to-lower-east/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/02/canine-tributes-upper-west-to-lower-east/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more popular stories in the local paper of record last week involved the simultaneous deaths of two much-beloved doggies on the Upper West Side.
With all due respect to the outpouring of grief up on West 86th Street, I submit the accompanying photo as proof that the Lower East Side really knows how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MACMILLAN&#8217;S SPITEFUL (TO AMAZON) MONOPOLY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/01/macmillans-spiteful-to-amazon-monopoly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/01/macmillans-spiteful-to-amazon-monopoly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend&#8217;s tussle between Amazon and Macmillan over the right to set pricing on ebooks included some curious phraseology by Amazon:
We will have to capitulate and accept Macmillan&#8217;s terms because Macmillan has a monopoly over their own titles&#8230;
A &#8220;monopoly over their own titles&#8221;? In other words, Macmillan does, indeed, control the wares that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CURBING THE APP-ETITE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/31/curbing-the-app-etite/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/31/curbing-the-app-etite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videogames]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPod]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
While it&#8217;s probably true that &#8220;there&#8217;s an app for that&#8221; &#8212; no matter what &#8220;that&#8221; calls for &#8212; it&#8217;s not surprising that most people stick to a tried-and-true handful of favorite icons:
The average iPhone or iPod Touch owner uses 5 to 10 apps regularly, according to Flurry, a research firm that studies mobile trends. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAD IPAD</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/31/rad-ipad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/31/rad-ipad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, yeah: The iPad.
I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m not tempted. In some ways, this was the type of device I was wishing for when I contemplated buying the first-rollout iPhone in 2007, just for the wireless Internet.
That was before Apple followed up with the iTouch shortly thereafter. I snapped up that gadget shortly after its debut, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TERROR-TRIAL ECONOMIC STIMULUS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/30/terror-trial-economic-stimulus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/30/terror-trial-economic-stimulus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[True Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While Manhattan has just successfully spurned the potentially-disruptive Federal trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, my upstate hometown is ready to take the rebound as the new venue.
The offer is not driven by a sense of justice, so much:
&#8220;If they want to have it here, we’ve got the state-of-the-art courthouse,&#8221; [Newburgh, NY] Mayor Nicholas Valentine &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRO-PUTIN POP PROPAGANDA</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/30/pro-putin-pop-propaganda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/30/pro-putin-pop-propaganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s nearly a decade old now, but this techno-tuned song about Russian leader Vladimir Putin is still going strong:

How strong? In keeping with the cult-of-personality theme in Putin&#8217;s political career, consider the winning of hearts and minds via urban sing-a-longs:
It&#8217;s winter in Russia. At night, Muscovites crowd the clubs and request their karaoke favorite, &#8220;A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HAND&#8217;S-OFF ADVERTISING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/29/hands-off-advertising/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/29/hands-off-advertising/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Above is a typically clutter-ful Web ad, featuring Brett Favre holding a magic 8-ball &#8212; er, make that a 4-ball.
Er, make that, not really holding that ball. Because it couldn&#8217;t be more obvious that the hand in the foreground is utterly out of anatomical sync with Favre&#8217;s body in the background. Unless he&#8217;s just been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PETA&#8217;S GROUNDHOG DAY SUBSTITUTION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/28/petas-groundhog-day-substitution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/28/petas-groundhog-day-substitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While it&#8217;s terribly predictable of PETA to capitalize on this upcoming Groundhog Day, it&#8217;s surprising that the organization proposed a constructive way to preserve the holiday:
Gemma Vaughan, Animals in Entertainment specialist for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said in a letter to organizers of the annual spectacle in Punxsutawney, PA, that  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOWARD A MORE MORAL (AND LESS ORAL) DICTIONARY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/27/toward-a-more-moral-and-less-oral-dictionary/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/27/toward-a-more-moral-and-less-oral-dictionary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordsmithing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the (regrettably) long history of book-banning, it&#8217;s a wonder why more literary crusaders haven&#8217;t bypassed the piecemeal approach of targeting single titles in favor of taking down the ultimate source of all those evil words:
The Menifee [California] Union School District is forming a committee to review whether dictionaries containing the definitions for sexual terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PARADISE FOR FLASHING LIGHTS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/26/paradise-for-flashing-lights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/26/paradise-for-flashing-lights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordsmithing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The lyrics to Lady GaGa&#8217;s &#8220;Paparazzi&#8221; contain these lines:
It don&#8217;t have a price
Ready for those flashing lights
For some inexplicable reason, I keep expecting that bit to go thusly:
It don&#8217;t have a price
Ready for the paradise
Considering that the entire tune is photography-themed, &#8220;those flashing lights&#8221; makes eminent sense within the song&#8217;s context. So I can&#8217;t quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AND CANADIAN HISTORY, AS THE BEAVER</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/25/and-canadian-history-as-the-beaver/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/25/and-canadian-history-as-the-beaver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
As far as I know, the Canadian beaver is not an endangered species. Its print counterpart, on the other hand, is a goner, done in by a 1-2 punch of the schoolyard and the Internet:
To be more precise, the title ["The Beaver: Canada's History Magazine"] was doomed by a vulgar alternative meaning that causes Web [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOING ROGUE, VIA BUS ROUTE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/25/going-rogue-via-bus-route/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/25/going-rogue-via-bus-route/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was quite amused today to see a copy of Sarah Palin&#8217;s &#8220;Going Rogue: An American Life&#8221; sitting on dashboard of my morning bus, obviously in possession of the bus driver.
Because it was all too obvious that he was practically brandishing the hardcover, making sure that every rider that got onboard had a good view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PERILS OF PROSTI-DUDE-TION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/24/the-perils-of-prosti-dude-tion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/24/the-perils-of-prosti-dude-tion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We already knew that pimpin&#8217; ain&#8217;t easy. You&#8217;d think it would be somewhat easier in Nevada, what with that state&#8217;s longstanding legalized prostitution. But now, along comes America&#8217;s first-ever legal male sex worker, or &#8220;prostidude&#8221;, to draw fire from all conceivable quarters:
Funny thing is, Markus&#8217; refusal to see male clients is earning him criticism from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SECOND BANANA? YOU BIG DUMMY!</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/24/second-banana-you-big-dummy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/24/second-banana-you-big-dummy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe I&#8217;m not the one to criticize Demond Wilson when it comes to promoting &#8220;Second Banana&#8221;, his memoirs from his &#8220;Sanford and Son&#8221; years.
But if Wilson actually wanted this book to catch on, I think he should have gone with the far more obvious choice of title: &#8220;You Big Dummy!&#8221;. Having Redd Foxx&#8217;s signature catchphrase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE COLORFUL EXPONENTIALITY OF THE CRAYON BOX</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/23/the-colorful-exponentiality-of-the-crayon-box/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/23/the-colorful-exponentiality-of-the-crayon-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;d wager neither Malthus nor Moore envisioned that their theories on exponential growth over time could be applied to the implements of coloring-book art:
&#8230;“Crayola’s Law,” which states: The number of colors doubles every 28 years!
If the Law holds true, Crayola’s gonna need a bigger box, because by the year 2050, there’ll be 330 different crayons!
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASSHOLES, EN MASS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/23/assholes-en-mass/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/23/assholes-en-mass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RealiTV Check]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not to be outshined by the newly &#8220;Jersey Shore&#8221;-burnished guidos, New Englanders are coalescing into their own obnoxious subculture:
They&#8217;re called Massholes. Though there is some disagreement about what, exactly, constitutes a Masshole, there are several characteristics present in all definitions. A Masshole is a resident of Massachusetts &#8212; though sometimes Rhode Island, New Hampshire, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALL MANNER OF TUIT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/23/all-manner-of-tuit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/23/all-manner-of-tuit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 19:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordsmithing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I totally get the point of getting a round tuit. Especially when it would, appropriately, take a good while to do so.
But, despite the apologetic note included, I really don&#8217;t see a need for getting a square tuit.
Get it? If not, you&#8217;ll come around to it&#8230;
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		<title>TEAM COCO, NO-MO</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/22/team-coco-no-mo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/22/team-coco-no-mo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
It&#8217;s the end of an era &#8212; or the end of an error, depending on your outlook. &#8220;The Tonight Show with Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8221; breathes its last breath tonight, bringing a close to a messy divorce between O&#8217;Brien and NBC over the network&#8217;s late-night talent shuffle.
The final show is definitely a must-see. I don&#8217;t know if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUMO VS. SAUCELIFTER</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/21/sumo-vs-saucelifter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/21/sumo-vs-saucelifter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Videogames]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPod]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have to say, I spend an inordinate amount of time playing both Sumo! and Saucelifter! on my iTouch. While listening to music, usually &#8212; multi-tasking in everything, of course.
The games can&#8217;t be much more different, in either theme or mechanics. Sumo! is strictly a tap-and-count board game, nicely ported for touchscreen but hardly reliant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE MARKETING MYSTIQUE OF THE MARRIED PITCHWOMAN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/20/the-marketing-mystique-of-the-married-pitchwoman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/20/the-marketing-mystique-of-the-married-pitchwoman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With as much television advertising as I watch (and actually pay attention to), I&#8217;m surprised that I&#8217;ve never noticed this: The prominence of married women characters in TV commercials.
I have always believed that the biggest market for wedding rings is not among newlyweds but among the creators and producers of advertisements for prosaic consumer products. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOR THE PERFECT FANG-FITTING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/19/for-the-perfect-fang-fitting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/19/for-the-perfect-fang-fitting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Good to know that you can find made-to-order vampiric mouthware in the East Village/Alphabet City area. That&#8217;s where I cameraphoned this storefront-window sign the other day (closer to life-sized in embiggened Flickr version).
I won&#8217;t say where the &#8220;here&#8221; in that &#8220;Custom Vampire Fangs Made Here&#8221; is. Because I don&#8217;t want this little corner of Manhattan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HARD-FAST-SOFT-SLOW, BY RULE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/19/hard-fast-soft-slow-by-rule/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/19/hard-fast-soft-slow-by-rule/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the first to think of this, but I happen to be pondering it right now:
We hear reference to hard-and-fast rules, or the lack thereof, all the time. So why no &#8220;soft-and-slow&#8221; counterparts?
Predictably, a Google search on the subject yielded nothing but inane sex talk. Practically a hard-and-fast expectation when delving into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IPOD RANDOM 5: KING ME EDITION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/18/ipod-random-5-king-me-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/18/ipod-random-5-king-me-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPod Random Tracks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The trend has definitely set in: This is the fourth time in a row that the iPod Random 5 updates during holiday time. My iTouch must have a thing for commemorative events.
As luck would have it though, none of the songs that spewed from my music player jibe in any particular way with Martin Luther [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE LOST ART OF HOCKEY-LINE NICKNAMING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/18/the-lost-art-of-hockey-line-nicknaming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/18/the-lost-art-of-hockey-line-nicknaming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
While watching the Islanders game the other night (I&#8217;m a Rangers fan and thus anti-Isles, but a game is a game), one of the announcers offhandedly proposed nicknaming the trio of Sean Bergenheim, Kyle Okposo, and Josh Bailey the &#8220;First Round Line&#8221;, owing to each player&#8217;s status as a first-round draft pick.
Nice moniker, if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JETTING FOR A REMATCH</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/17/jetting-for-a-rematch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/17/jetting-for-a-rematch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 03:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m psychic, but:
Take the Jets&#8217; upset 17-14 win at San Diego today, and add the Colts&#8217; easy-breezy 20-3 victory over Baltimore, and you&#8217;ve got the karmically-engineered rematch I predicted:
All I know is that the ultimate boomerang effect looms: A possible postseason rematch with the Jets &#8212; who wouldn’t have even gotten to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IT WAS THAT, OR WHITE BREAD</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/17/it-was-that-or-white-bread/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/17/it-was-that-or-white-bread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For lack of a more colorful dish &#8212; or, for that matter, ethnicity &#8212; The Bloggess goes back to culinary basics to represent her down-South heritage:
For Hailey&#8217;s Multi-Cultural Day party at her school all the other parents brought food for the party indicative of their culture. I showed up with a plate of crackers. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEXICO&#8217;S TEN-VOLUTIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/17/mexicos-ten-volutions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/17/mexicos-ten-volutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Mexico, it&#8217;s not the Mayan home-grown 2012 doomsday that&#8217;s the big calender-numerological worry. Rather, it&#8217;s this year, for historical-repeat reasons:
First there was 1810, when an insurgent priest named Miguel Hidalgo gave a nighttime battle cry that sent thousands of Mexicans into the streets to oust the Spaniards. Then came 1910, the year that was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOOTBALL&#8217;S POWER FORWARDS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/17/footballs-power-forwards/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/17/footballs-power-forwards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
If it seemed like this past National Football League season featured a lot of highlight-reel catches by tight ends, it&#8217;s because there were a lot:
The Dallas Cowboys’ Jason Witten caught more passes than any of his teammates, with 94. The Minnesota Vikings’ Visanthe Shiancoe caught 56 passes, 11 for touchdowns. The Baltimore Ravens’ Todd Heap [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW YEAR&#8217;S BLOG-SHILLING OPPS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/16/new-years-blog-shilling-opps/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/16/new-years-blog-shilling-opps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m assuming the 2010 budgets have kicked in at various advertising agencies, which accounts for the three solicitations for blog-based marketing that landed in my inbox yesterday:
- One for Yarie, a niche-level competitor to Google AdSense;
- One on behalf of Dentyne, for some fab new packaging they want to promote;
- And one for MatchPoint, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BLOW GOES GAGA ON PALIN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/16/blow-goes-gaga-on-palin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/16/blow-goes-gaga-on-palin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not only did New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow make an overt comparison between Sarah Palin and Lady GaGa in the headline of his &#8220;Lady BlahBlah&#8221; piece today; he also weaved some GaGa-ness into the body of his writing:
I embedded as many of her song/cd titles as possible in my column. How many can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TODAY&#8217;S NEWS, FROM TODAY&#8217;S FISH WRAP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/15/todays-news-from-todays-fish-wrap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/15/todays-news-from-todays-fish-wrap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 13:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The old saying about the shelf life of the printed daily newspaper takes on new life with the sale of hiatused Editor &#038; Publisher to, of all things, a company that publishes boating and fishing magazines.
[Previous owner] Nielsen officially closed Editor &#038; Publisher on New Year&#8217;s Eve after announcing in early December that the magazine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GLOBAL RED-WHITE-AND-COO-COO</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/14/global-red-white-and-coo-coo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/14/global-red-white-and-coo-coo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the aim of American foreign policy is to win hearts and minds, the good news is that it&#8217;s been achieved; the bad news is that those &#8220;won&#8221; minds are now warped by exported psychoses.
There is now good evidence to suggest that in the process of teaching the rest of the world to think like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE MONSTER TRAIN THAT SPOOKED L.A.</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/13/the-monster-train-that-spooked-l-a/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/13/the-monster-train-that-spooked-l-a/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unbeknownst to most of us &#8212; including safety regulators &#8212; a three-and-a-half-mile-long train rolled through Southern California this past weekend:
The 18,000-foot-long train was two to three times the length of a typical freight train&#8230; It linked 295 rail cars, carrying more than 600 cargo containers, mostly double-stacked, said Tom Lange, a Union Pacific spokesman. Nine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CONAN TAKES ONE ON (FROM) THE CHIN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/13/conan-takes-one-on-from-the-chin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/13/conan-takes-one-on-from-the-chin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Well, that didn&#8217;t take long. Less than a week after NBC announced its salvage plans to move Jay Leno back to 11:35, Conan O&#8217;Brien announced that he&#8217;s extracting himself from the network&#8217;s resultant late-night traffic jam:
Mr. O’Brien’s statement Tuesday said that he so respected the institution of “The Tonight Show” that he could not participate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A LOSS FOR LUGES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/12/a-loss-for-luges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/12/a-loss-for-luges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Other Sports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
No one else I&#8217;ve tried this on tonight thinks this is funny. Regardless, I&#8217;m pressing on:
In consideration of NBC broadcasting this year&#8217;s Winter Olympics, I think the network should rebrand one of its hallmark shows, &#8220;The Biggest Loser&#8221;, thusly:
&#8220;The Biggest Luger&#8221;. As in luge, the winter sport.
I&#8217;m thinking it would involve a big fat guy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MAKING (AND WORDING) A PEACE WITHIN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/12/making-and-wording-a-peace-within/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/12/making-and-wording-a-peace-within/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time now, I&#8217;ve been kicking around the following quote inside my head:
Make a peace within you.
I could&#8217;ve sworn such a message would have emanated from the works of Ghandi, or even the Buddha. My research doesn&#8217;t bear that out, though; in fact, I can&#8217;t find any outside reference to it.
If that means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY LOS ANGELES RETROSPECTIVE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/11/my-los-angeles-retrospective/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/11/my-los-angeles-retrospective/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a week since I took a business trip to Los Angeles. It was my first visit to the city in, well, too many years to count (don&#8217;t ask), and the first time I was actually cognizant of my surroundings (again, don&#8217;t ask). So, while the still-recent memories are still reasonably fresh in my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LADY/BOY GAGA</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/10/ladyboy-gaga/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/10/ladyboy-gaga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whatever pangs of guilt I feel over carrying a couple of Lady GaGa songs on my iPod, at least I haven&#8217;t gone as gaga as these two GaGa medley-makers:

It is a rather spirited three minutes of musical tribute. I especially like the lyrical intertwining of &#8220;Poker Face&#8221; with &#8220;Paparazzi&#8221; &#8212; probably more than I like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOWARD A STRATEGIC-DEFAULT NORM</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/10/toward-a-strategic-default-norm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/10/toward-a-strategic-default-norm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With so many homeowners irretrievably underwater on dollar value of their mortgages, it&#8217;s a wonder why more people don&#8217;t voluntarily walk away from their homeowner obligations &#8212; or why they&#8217;re not encouraged to do so by demonstrated economic example:
There are two reasons why so-called strategic defaults have been considered antisocial and perhaps amoral. One is [...]]]></description>
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