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		<title>Same sex marriage is legal in California (again)</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/same-sex-marriage-is-legal-in-california/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today ruled that Proposition 8, amending the California Constitution by eliminating the previously determined right to same-sex marriage under California law, was unconstitutional under the United States Constitution. The decision was made on narrow &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/same-sex-marriage-is-legal-in-california/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Siri challenged by Scotland</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/siri-challenged-by-scotland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: language NSFW (via Boing Boing)]]></description>
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		<title>The most powerful Super Bowl ad</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/the-most-powerful-super-bowl-ad/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/the-most-powerful-super-bowl-ad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=17045</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Cramer describes the advertisement he found most powerful during the Super Bowl. &#8230; there was one ad that struck me as the most honest, most riveting and most compelling of all. You see, the game had just ended, and &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/the-most-powerful-super-bowl-ad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Collateral damage in the IP wars</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/collateral-damage-in-the-ip-wars/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/collateral-damage-in-the-ip-wars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chrysler&#8217;s Clint Eastwood Super Bowl ad was blocked on YouTube yesterday due to a copyright claim. Who made the claim? None other than the NFL. Sweet. One would think that a major sponsor of the Super Bowl would get better &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/collateral-damage-in-the-ip-wars/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Getting to know Mitt</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/getting-to-know-mitt/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/07/getting-to-know-mitt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=17037</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[[Note: Scroll to the right to see the latest poll numbers.] The more you learn about Mitt, the less you like him.]]></description>
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		<title>Proposition 8 ruling tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/proposition-8-ruling-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/proposition-8-ruling-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=17021</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow, sometime around or before 10 am, west coast time, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will release its opinion regarding California&#8217;s proposition 8. I will go out on a limb and predict that the court will conclude that (i) &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/proposition-8-ruling-tomorrow/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The end of Wall Street?</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/the-end-of-wall-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we can hope. But there does seem to be a fundamental change going on. The full article is a must read. The crash four years ago was shocking enough to the financial class. But what is happening on Wall &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/the-end-of-wall-street/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Political quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/political-quote-of-the-day-162/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/political-quote-of-the-day-162/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was, frankly, offended by it. I’m a huge fan of Clint Eastwood, I thought it was an extremely well-done ad, but it is a sign of what happens when you have Chicago-style politics, and the President of the United &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/political-quote-of-the-day-162/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Classic Disneyland</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/classic-disneyland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=16991</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Excellent restored home movie video of Disneyland in 1957. Watch in HD full screen. This was less than two years after the park opened. Full details on the film and its restoration here. (via Boing Boing)]]></description>
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		<title>Super Bowl ad not seen in the States</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/super-bowl-ad-not-seen-in-the-states/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/super-bowl-ad-not-seen-in-the-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=16989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out this great Super Bowl ad. It was shown only in Canada and features a &#8220;flash mob&#8221; of fans showing up for a non-professional hockey game.]]></description>
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		<title>M.I.A. flips off camera during Super Bowl show</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/m-i-a-flips-off-camera-during-super-bowl-show/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/06/m-i-a-flips-off-camera-during-super-bowl-show/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<title>Ford asks GM to kill Super Bowl ad</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/ford-asks-to-kill-super-bowl-ad/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/ford-asks-to-kill-super-bowl-ad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://freer.com/bits/?p=16981</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chevy is running a Super Bowl ad today, with a Mayan apocalypse theme: What is strange is that Joel Ewanick (GM global chief marketing officer) has tweeted that Ford asked GM to kill the ad. Seems to be a bonanza &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/ford-asks-to-kill-super-bowl-ad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bad girls</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/bad-girls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by M.I.A. Love it.]]></description>
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		<title>Globalization quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/globalization-quote-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Such moral outrage is common among the opponents of globalization — of the transfer of technology and capital from high-wage to low-wage countries and the resulting growth of labor-intensive Third World exports. These critics take it as a given that &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/globalization-quote-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Punk economics</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/punk-economics/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/punk-economics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth about events in Europe from David McWilliams of Punk Economics. Europe&#8217;s economy is increasingly run for the benefit of banks, with strong support from France and Germany, countries whose banks have large exposure to European sovereign debt. (via &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/punk-economics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Next-gen drone tech</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/05/next-gen-drone-tech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video is only a lab experiment, but it shows developments in technology that could revolutionize America&#8217;s military use of armed drones. Note that these craft are all operating autonomously yet collectively. &#160; More at WIRED.]]></description>
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		<title>Your tax dollars at work</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/04/your-tax-dollars-at-work-5/</link>
		<comments>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/04/your-tax-dollars-at-work-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FBI is circulating a set of flyers purported to identify suspicious behaviors that indicates possible terrorist activities that therefore should be reported to the FBI by all good citizens.  The flyers are headlined &#8220;Communities Against Terrorism&#8221; and there are &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/04/your-tax-dollars-at-work-5/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Piracy cannot be stopped</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/04/piracy-cannot-be-stopped/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Tassi, writing in Forbes, has a good overview of an underlying and unavoidable reality of the digital age in which we live: piracy cannot be stopped. Technological blocks are temporary at best, because blocking any particular digital tools for &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/04/piracy-cannot-be-stopped/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mortality quote of the day</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/04/mortality-quote-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The explicit awareness that you&#8217;re a breathing piece of defecating meat, destined to die and ultimately no more significant than, let&#8217;s say, a lizard or a potato, is not especially uplifting. &#8211; Sheldon Solomon, professor of psychology at Skidmore College. &#8230; <a href="http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/04/mortality-quote-of-the-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs</title>
		<link>http://freer.com/bits/2012/02/03/tim-cook-is-no-steve-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here.]]></description>
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