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		<title>The promise of networked suburbs and shuttering college dropout factories.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Urban Legends: The hipper the city, the mantra goes, the richer and more successful it will be &#8212; and a number of declining American industrial hubs have tried to rebrand themselves as &#8220;creative class&#8221; hot spots accordingly. But this argument, or at least many applications of it, gets things backward. Arts and culture generally do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Bansky&#8217;s graffiti examples of augmented reality?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An example of a Banksy intervention (graffiti!) that introduces a new meaning by changing the visual interpretation of a physical space.]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3482</link>
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		<title>Movie math: the Descent.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(((The Bat Boy * 10) + Hot Babes) &#8211; believable characters) &#8211; believable plot = The Descent. It also grossed $57m on a $7m investment.]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3473</link>
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		<title>Happy labor day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a time – a very long time, in fact – when the U.S. economy was based in part on slave labor. In a slave economy, legal entities like businesses and individual owners have the right to do with a worker entirely as they see fit. If they want to fire the worker, they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3458</link>
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		<title>An image of a tree, on and off.</title>
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		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3444</link>
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		<title>Betrayal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You cannot be betrayed by a stranger. Only an intimate can break that bond. You&#8217;re only disappointed by those you love. The current populism being fanned by the right wing bloc is not, at heart, a fear of the other but a resentment of their own. A feeling of betrayal. Here&#8217;s one tell: they don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3424</link>
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		<title>The iPod Nano and augmented reality.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While likely to get some kids jumped, the new iPod Nano is a brilliant step towards augmented reality. Note how yesteryear&#8217;s band buttons have now become electronic, mutable, interactive. then now]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3393</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s good for the capital is good for the labor.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great quote on immigration: Borders are imaginary lines across which capital flows freely. The idea that labor should not flow freely across borders, whether for the preservation of the ability of capital to go where-ever labor is cheapest, or for the preservation of higher wages for one group of laborers who did nothing to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3391</link>
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		<title>Falsehoods being traded as facts, &#8220;irrespective of their validity.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem with so much journalism: Mr. Loeb’s views, irrespective of their validity, point to a bigger problem for the economy: If business leaders have a such a distrust of government, they won’t invest in the country. And perception is becoming reality. It is precisely because these views are not questioned that they pose a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3379</link>
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		<title>Hope is only meaningful in the face of hardship.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Rothkopf ties home ownership to America&#8217;s role as peacekeeper and protector of human rights abroad: &#8220;American optimism and self-confidence [are] manifest in U.S. wealth creation either expressed through home ownership, housing prices, employment figures and wages.&#8221; He warns: This country is in a dark place economically unlike any I have seen in my half [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3374</link>
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		<title>Our furniture design blog is open again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At anatijuana.com.]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3367</link>
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		<title>Suggestions for new rickrolling memes.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In five years most people will be watching television on demand and their choices will be guided as much by their friends&#8217; suggestions as by interruption marketing. Thus, the possibilities for experiencing the delight of rickrolling will increase. Here are a few suggestions to keep the rick rolling. Every time someone orders: Scarface, show them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3354</link>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s to laying foundations.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Laying foundations is drudgery. You&#8217;re mostly in the dark. You can&#8217;t really see any progress from the outside. And, yet, when the foundations are finally laid, when they&#8217;re deep, wide and level, you can build a tall structure that will stand the test of time.]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3346</link>
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		<title>Mother, the movie, is a milestone.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The movie Mother is the best all-out movie I&#8217;ve seen in a while. Directed by Bong Joon-Ho, written by Park Eun-kyo and Mr. Bong, with amazing shots by Hong Kyung-pyo and spellbinding acting by Kim Hye-ja. It&#8217;s a milestone not to be missed. A mother&#8217;s love is the most creative and thus, possibly, the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3336</link>
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		<title>Contains 11 tracks, some in English, some in Spanish.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Funny this. Good old Cuban-Mexican-American Flight of the Conchords / Future Sailors material from 1999-2000.]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3324</link>
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		<title>Sleep on it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sleep on it.&#8221; To the extent that we use and believe in this phrase, we understand the fundamental role that the unconscious plays in human existence.]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3321</link>
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		<title>A few thoughts on planning for the future.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The act of making and keeping an appointment is an effort to change one&#8217;s thinking (&#8220;now, you must think about this&#8221;) but such changes can be harder to pull off if they come at the wrong moment. A more effective appointment system might be one that unfolds over a series of appointments, gradually preparing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3307</link>
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		<title>One way our desire filters what we hear.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We hear what we want to hear. We see what we want to see. That&#8217;s not to say there is no truth. There&#8217;s plenty of truth. But we tune into the frequencies and focus on the areas of our interest; whether these interests are conscious or not. For example, if you lack something, being asked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3288</link>
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		<title>Earbud headphones you wear all the time for enhanced sensory perception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are wireless, motion-powered earbuds coming soon? We wear contacts to improve our sight. Why not wear miniature headphones to improve our ability to hear &#8220;distant&#8221; sounds? &#8220;Listen to the breeze, listen to mp3s, listen to your favorite places and people, to translations and the news. Anytime, anywhere.&#8221;]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3279</link>
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		<title>The Roman Catholic Church has a staffing problem.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aren&#8217;t the majority of the problems facing the RC Church related to weak staffing? Not enough qualified people. Can&#8217;t attract more. Actively losing staff. What would a management consulting firm recommend? Has the RCC already hired one? Wouldn&#8217;t those reports be the property of the Church&#8217;s patrons: the laity? Could the laity request such a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3278</link>
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		<title>Who benefits from &#8220;holy war&#8221;? The extremists on both sides.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Josh Marshall points out that the anti-Islamic fear mongering being perpetrated by right-wing activists is hurting America&#8217;s counter-terrorism efforts. He concludes: &#8220;the furor of opposition to the Cordoba House project and the spasm of Islamophobia is the best recruiting tool that bin Laden and his imitators could possibly hope for.&#8221; Marshall implies that the activists [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3275</link>
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		<title>All roads lead through Washington D.C., which is currently fucked.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historic Voter Volatility in This Year of Fear, WSJ: Today&#8217;s dark public mood appears to be the culmination of a long stretch of national anxiety encompassing a historic terrorist attack and two lengthy wars, followed hard by the worst economic crisis of the last 75 years. The nation is in a period of volatility that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3252</link>
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		<title>If you&#8217;re going to scare monger, at least do it right.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lee Smith has written a fun, smart and thorough takedown of Gingrich et al&#8217;s latest boogie monster: &#8220;sharia&#8221; law. As you would expect, Gingrich doesn&#8217;t even know what he&#8217;s talking about. Which is especially a bummer if you consider all the real existential threats we Americans face. If you&#8217;re going to scare monger, at least [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3253</link>
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		<title>Which online habit makes you happier?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It would be interesting to test whether users of the popular online tools (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Orkut) have devised uses (habits, activities) that makes them feel happier. And/or to confirm their happiness is a shared feeling via group studies that monitor the participants of an online group for signs of improved communication (tolerance, productivity, pleasure.)]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3237</link>
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		<title>Do Americans listen as much as they talk? We might be able to answer that.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Go West,&#8221; Peter Hessler returns to America after years of living in China and finds that we Americans like to talk about ourselves and are good at it. But he also concludes that we don&#8217;t listen very well – or ask many questions. This might be a verifiable claim. At least when it comes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3221</link>
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		<title>Marshall: &#8220;the Republican party has chosen to hoist its sail to religious bigotry&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Josh Marshall: No doubt the president&#8217;s advisers would much have preferred not to address [the Islamic community center] at all, wish it had never come up. But it&#8217;s difficult to imagine any president doing otherwise. We learn again that saying you&#8217;re for &#8220;democratic values&#8221; and freedom actually means being for &#8220;democratic values&#8221; and freedom. Are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3228</link>
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		<title>Who runs Trader Joe&#8217;s?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fascinating profile of two German brothers, billionaires, and their global discount retail empire which includes Trader Joe&#8217;s.]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3209</link>
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		<title>Nothing is solid; gorgeous prose from The Ecomomist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Gorgeous writing from The Economist: The Earth is a recycling scheme that has been running for a third of the age of the universe. Microbes and plants endlessly pull carbon, nitrogen and oxygen from the atmosphere and pump them back out in different forms. Water evaporates from the oceans, rains down on the land, pours [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3204</link>
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		<title>Silvio, the renewable energy rich playboys of Portugal await your electric Ferraris.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NYT: Nearly 45 percent of the electricity in Portugal’s grid will come from renewable sources this year, up from 17 percent just five years ago. Land-based wind power — this year deemed “potentially competitive” with fossil fuels by the International Energy Agency in Paris — has expanded sevenfold in that time. And Portugal expects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3199</link>
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		<title>Will computers in 2050 finally look like the ones we imagined in the 1950s?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A user on MetaFilter has argued that a well designed item is that which lasts a long time – or, perhaps, an item which the owner values for a long time. Here&#8217;s my response wherein I argue that if the item is fun to use, pretty to look at, and works well for many years after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3194</link>
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		<title>Monotheism and discovery.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hearing about the Alhambra today it occurred to me that the main innovation of monotheism is certainty. &#8220;There is no God but God&#8221; is not a religious statement (&#8220;There is a god&#8221; would suffice for that), it&#8217;s a philosophical claim. &#8220;There is only one god&#8221; is not so much a statement of faith in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3193</link>
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		<title>Block that metaphor, UBS tax-fraud expose edition.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deliciously overcooked hard-boiled language: Downing saw in Birkenfeld nothing more than an overly clever informant trying to blow the whistle to his own tune. And that is when the music stops with the Justice Department.]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3190</link>
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		<title>Google Wave, the failed MOO.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I joked that Google Wave has a lot in common with Dungeons &#038; Dragons. The next day Google announced it would abandon Google Wave. After reading responses to Google&#8217;s announcement I got the impression that half of Wave&#8217;s potential users didn&#8217;t know how to use it and the other half, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3133</link>
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		<title>Will OMG go the way of OK? (A facetious phrase that became commonplace.)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy saying &#8220;oh em gee&#8221; and wonder if my grandchildren will still use this phrase just as we still use the phrase &#8220;oh kay&#8221; which in its time was also a facetious phrasing: Etymonline: 1839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c.1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3185</link>
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		<title>Marble, glass, metal.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Galata by Konstantin Grcic for Marsotto Edizioni]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3161</link>
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		<title>Toys for telepresence.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AR.Drone, a hovering video camera you control via your phone combined with &#8220;augmented reality&#8221; gaming software. Racer, a racing video game with actual physics (i.e., an actual RC mobile camera). previously physical spaces that simulate artificial spaces]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3145</link>
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		<title>carbon fiber furniture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Karbon by Konstantin Grcic for Galerie Kreo Surface table by Terence Woodgate and John Barnard for Established &#038; Sons]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3136</link>
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		<title>Countering a movement of feelings, not ideas.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or, why a sustained, national commitment to mental health will do wonders for our constitution. As prompted by this post on Metafilter. Richard Hofstader writing in 1954 with my changes in brackets: The restlessness, suspicion and fear manifested in various phases of the [Tea Party] revolt give evidence of the real suffering which the [Tea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3111</link>
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		<title>four bent wood chairs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[reflect chair from postfossil (2010) table bench chair from established &#038; sons (2009) CH24 from Carl Hansen &#038; Son (1950) Chair no. 14 from Thonet (1859)]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3093</link>
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		<title>First, they came for the art I did not care for, and I said so many things…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was surprised to find yet another conversation about the Rodarte makeup line for MAC on MetaFilter this morning, some two weeks after the controversy began. This discussion on MetaFilter is mostly more of the same: the policing of art with a variety of interchangeable though not always compatible standards. For example, commercial art must [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://josemarquez.com/xsml/archives/3083</link>
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