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	<description>&#34;A pox upon&#039;t, Knave; let us play at ninepins.&#34;</description>
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		<title>Finishing It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve reached that stage in the creative process where, on the verge of finishing draft one of the novel, I find myself struggling to force out the final sixty or so pages. I think the problem is twofold: first, I&#8217;ve already unintentionally turned my mind toward the first revision. It&#8217;s impossible not to think about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stefanclaypool.com/2010/03/08/finishing-it/</link>
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		<title>Random Thoughts on the Morning of February 26, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good Lord, February is almost over. As a winterphile, that is extremely uncool. As a baseball fan, though, I feel unwarranted excitement building inside of me.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stefanclaypool.com/2010/02/26/random-thoughts-on-the-morning-of-february-26-2010/</link>
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		<title>On &#8220;Moon&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Moon is a film by Duncan Jones. It stars Sam Rockwell as Sam Bell, an employee of a lunar mining company that harvests helium for energy use on Earth. Sam is alone on the Moon, with no direct human contact and only his robot GERTY to keep him company. At this point, the film could have become one of three things. It could have become some sort of space opera where Sam fights Moon Men over natural resources. It could have become a cerebral, elegant, and poignant science fiction film in the vein of 2001. Or it could have become Mystery Science Theater 3000. And despite my unabashed love of MST3K, I am please to report that Moon is one of the best pure science fiction films I've seen in quite a while.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stefanclaypool.com/2010/02/15/on-moon/</link>
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		<title>How Economists Roll</title>
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The difference between Keynes and Hayek is that Keynes&#8217;s theories were primarily concerned with providing politicians cover for expanding government control of the economy, whereas Hayek&#8217;s were concerned with explaining how things work.
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		<link>http://www.stefanclaypool.com/2010/02/10/how-economists-roll/</link>
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		<title>On the Old World Paradigm vs. the New World Paradigm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going to write a blog post tonight about this topic, but fortuitously stumbled upon this piece, which more or less summarized exactly what I was going to say. The topic is our perceptions of how we interact with technology and how they change over time. Check it out.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stefanclaypool.com/2010/02/02/on-the-old-world-paradigm-vs-the-new-world-paradigm/</link>
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		<title>On the iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm not going to bother explaining what the iPad is. If you've been anywhere near a computer today, you've seen it and formed an opinion on it. My opinion, predictably, is of the OHMIGODITSTHECOOLESTTHINGEVERIHAVETOHAVEIT variety. That said, I understand that some people aren't as enthusiastic. They ask why it's preferable to a laptop. They say it's essentially an oversized iPhone or iPod Touch. They question its purpose, and the purpose of tablets in general. In short, they don't "get it." That's understandable, and honestly there's nothing wrong with that. And while I'm not an expert in theories of media consumption, I have been thinking about the issues raised by the iPad and by other recent technological advances in some depth, and would like to offer my perspective.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stefanclaypool.com/2010/01/27/on-the-ipad/</link>
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		<title>On &#8220;Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally decided to dive headfirst into Wodehouse - that is, Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, famed British novelist and playwright. I had been recommended his work over the years, but never actually made a serious effort to read any of it. His most famous creations - bumbling playboy Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves - were brought to life in an acclaimed British television series starring comedy geniuses Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, and were also the subject of a Lovecraft-inspired short story included in Alan Moore's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier (which I should say is thus far my favorite installment in that particular series). Given that Wodehouse's works had influenced the works of those three titans of British popular culture, I figured I might as well give him a chance.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stefanclaypool.com/2010/01/27/on-stiff-upper-lip-jeeves/</link>
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		<title>Yes, the Project Page is Gone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hold your horses, it&#8217;ll be back eventually.
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		<link>http://www.stefanclaypool.com/2010/01/24/yes-the-project-page-is-gone/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The End of My Faith in Democracy&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does that headline seem a little overblown? Well, don't worry, it's not from me.  But it's entirely possible that in the wake of Scott Brown's victory in Massachusetts's special election to fill the Senate seat left vacant following Ted Kennedy's death, you've seen a few similar headlines around the blogosphere. I know I have.  Not shockingly, they're all from liberals.  Now I'm not going to say that liberals shouldn't be upset about the Brown victory. After all, if you subscribe to that particular political philosophy, then Brown's election is a stinging rebuke, and will almost certainly derail the "progressive agenda" for the time being.  That's a hard pill for some people to swallow.  However, I think that a little perspective is needed.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stefanclaypool.com/2010/01/24/the-end-of-my-faith-in-democracy/</link>
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		<title>Caprica</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note: This post was originally dated July 22nd, 2009, but in light of the series&#8217;s debut last Friday, I feel obligated to repost.
I&#8217;m a big fan of Ronald D. Moore&#8217;s Battlestar Galactica, which finished its run on the channel formerly known as Sci-Fi earlier this year.  Having spent years wrapped up in the drama unfolding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stefanclaypool.com/2010/01/24/caprica/</link>
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