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	<title>Science and Culture &#187; Science</title>
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		<title>Belkin Paying Folks to Post Fake Reviews on Amazon</title>
		<link>http://apoplecticape.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/belkin-paying-folks-to-post-fake-reviews-on-amazon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this story via The Daily Background.
Apparently Belkin&#8217;s &#8220;Business Development Manager of eCommerce&#8221;, Michael Bayard has been found to be paying people to post positive reviews of their products, and downplay any negative reviews. The posting states you don&#8217;t even need to own it.  They used Amazon&#8217;s own Mechanical Turk service to post the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apoplecticape.wordpress.com&blog=2745612&post=169&subd=apoplecticape&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My friends are plotting against me!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>DIY Biotechnologists &#8211; Start Praying</title>
		<link>http://apoplecticape.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/diy-biotechnologists-start-praying/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>goatmonger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[biology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the new rage is to attempt synthetic biology in one&#8217;s home, says this article:
Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home

(via the Associated Press)
People with no training and only rudimentary knowledge doing genetic splicing in unregulated lab conditions?  Very scary.  And you thought genetically engineered food was bad?  Please.  You haven&#8217;t been scared s***less until [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apoplecticape.wordpress.com&blog=2745612&post=157&subd=apoplecticape&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ball Droppeth&#8230; again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>goatmonger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sony Computer Entertainment has today announced that it will perform a worldwide release of the new PlayStation Home service on December 11, 2009. The 3D social gaming service has recently completed its lengthy beta test and will allow PlayStation 3 users to interact, communicate and share game experiences with each other.
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		<title>Swap Modifier Keys Between Macbook and External Windows Keyboard Modes</title>
		<link>http://apoplecticape.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/swap-modifier-keys-between-macbook-and-external-windows-keyboard-modes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>goatmonger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A problem with PC keyboards on the Mac is that your Option and Command keys get mapped to the Windows and Alt keys, respectively (this swaps their placement).  This makes it confusing when you are switching between a Macbook&#8217;s onboard keyboard and USB PC keyboard.
Well, in Keyboard &#38; Mouse preferences you can swap the modifier [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apoplecticape.wordpress.com&blog=2745612&post=103&subd=apoplecticape&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spore: Round One</title>
		<link>http://apoplecticape.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/spore-round-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>goatmonger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started playing Spore this week.  I don&#8217;t know how the online reviewers could claim that the performance was good even on less powerful machines.  I have it running on my Macbook Pro 2.2ghz (Geforce 8600M 128MB) with all the settings turned down, and it *CRAWLS* once past the Cell stage.  Anyway, here  are two [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apoplecticape.wordpress.com&blog=2745612&post=98&subd=apoplecticape&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard: Fix the Finder!</title>
		<link>http://apoplecticape.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/osx-106-snow-leopard-fix-the-finder/</link>
		<comments>http://apoplecticape.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/osx-106-snow-leopard-fix-the-finder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>goatmonger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
With OS X 10.6 &#8220;Snow Leopard&#8221;, Apple&#8217;s Goal is to &#8220;Enhance the performance of OS X, set a new standard for quality and lay the foundation for future OS X innovation.&#8221;  They are promising that, although there will be no huge feature additions, 10.6 will be worth our while since it will give Apple the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apoplecticape.wordpress.com&blog=2745612&post=95&subd=apoplecticape&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Knew Billy G Was Funny?</title>
		<link>http://apoplecticape.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/who-knew-billy-g-was-funny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 05:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>goatmonger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite how much I hate Micro$oft and it&#8217;s crappy, do-nothing software that hasn&#8217;t changed significantly in 10 years, I have to admit that Gates is pretty funny in this.

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		<title>The Mac Trash Bin</title>
		<link>http://apoplecticape.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/the-mac-trashbin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>goatmonger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to admit it, but Windows actually has one advantage over OS X, and that&#8217;s the handling ofdeleted files.  Sure, on both systems you can always undo the last operation (well, not always&#8230; I&#8217;m not going to make that blanket statement).  However, Windows Recycle Bin has a few big advantages:

Windows Recycle Bin remembers where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apoplecticape.wordpress.com&blog=2745612&post=81&subd=apoplecticape&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>But at the Market, isn&#8217;t it Spelled &#8220;McIntosh&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://apoplecticape.wordpress.com/2008/02/17/but-at-the-market-isnt-it-spelled-mcintosh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>goatmonger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I now has a Macbook. w3rd!
To anyone who has tried them both:  I ask whether you prefer Word 2008 or iWork&#8217;s Pages &#8216;08?  Same goes, to a lesser extent, for the other Office vs iWorks components.
Leopard rocks, so much so that it is a worthy point of procrastination to mention it at midnight when I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apoplecticape.wordpress.com&blog=2745612&post=77&subd=apoplecticape&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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