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		<title>Love Is A Matter Of Taste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Burt knew that he was wrong for Sarah, and that Sarah was wrong for him. But all that wrong was so good they just had to be together. Like Budweiser and Clamato.]]></description>
		<link>http://the-great-round-world.com/comic/love-is-a-matter-of-taste</link>
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		<title>Book Buying Binge: March 18th, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My sister gave me a gift certificate to Elliott Bay Books for Christmas which I just got around to using. Unfortunately this coincided with me wandering into Interesting Stuff, which sadly is going out of business, but happily (for me) has %25 off everything. What&#8217;s stupid about this is that I could have waited a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-great-round-world.com/memoir/book-buying-binge-march-18th-2010</link>
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		<title>Sometimes I wish medieval writers had used Twitter.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translation of below: We stole the idea of stealing Saint Nicholas from the Venetians. They suck. We rock. When Alexius was Emperor, and the foreign and infidel hordes that had migrated through the Roman Empire were being pacified&#8217; and the bold Normans who had voyaged thither had been beaten and dispersed, certain citizens of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-great-round-world.com/note/sometimes-i-wish-medieval-writers-had-used-twitter</link>
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		<title>Strip 2: Fred the Love Unicorn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Contrary to folklore, it is not the unicorn which can only be captured by a beautiful virgin. Rather, only young and inexperienced girls can be tempted by the unicorn. Because any woman with a lick of sense knows that unicorns are scumbags. Fred has a tiny, misshapen horn. And you know what they say about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strip One</title>
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		<title>More or less sums it up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;But you&#8217;re convinced that, to put it crudely, when you die, that&#8217;s it.&#8221; &#8220;No,&#8221; Vidal replies. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t say: &#8216;When you die, that&#8217;s it.&#8217; I&#8217;d say: &#8216;When you&#8217;re born, that&#8217;s it.&#8217;&#8221; [From Gore Vidal: Literary feuds, his 'vicious' mother and rumours of a secret love child - Features, Books - The Independent]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick Note About Devices That Do Everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have to be pretty darned disciplined to not do everything. My iPhone is a camera, a phone, an iPod, a movie player, an RSS reader, an ebook reader, gaming platform, and blogging device. The problem mostly being that it&#8217;s hard to not want to do all of these things at once. Listen to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-great-round-world.com/note/quick-note-about-devices-that-do-everything</link>
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		<title>HAPPY ST. PADDY&#8217;S DAY FROM FATHER JACK HACKETT!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Father Jack Hackett from the absolutely fantastic comedy series Father Ted. [From Eclectic Micks: HAPPY ST. PADDY'S DAY FROM FATHER JACK HACKETT!]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-great-round-world.com/links/happy-st-paddys-day-from-father-jack-hackett</link>
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		<title>No, Seriously We&#8217;re Utterly Fucked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time I read an article about the melting ice caps, there is always a sentence like this: Shipping firms have already proposed taking short cuts through the polar region, which also contains large reserves of oil and natural gas. [From Al Jazeera English - Americas - Arctic ice 'could melt by 2013' ] Aaaaand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://the-great-round-world.com/news/no-seriously-were-utterly-fucked</link>
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		<title>But Don&#8217;t Let This Stop You From Being Afraid! Very Afraid!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Iran has no weapons-grade uranium, US military officials have said in an attempt to clarify recent statements from Washington and Israel. [From BBC NEWS &#124; Americas &#124; Iran 'has no bomb-grade uranium'] Can we just make up our mind about this?]]></description>
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