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	<title>clusterflock &#187; history</title>
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	<description>thoughts, questions, original art and content and links to stuff we think is of interest; a group blog dedicated to pretty much everything. by people you would like to meet at a party; proof of intelligent life on the planet; inhabited by Internet hunter gatherers in the pre-apocalyptic realm; a destination that offers constellations of stimulating links to popular (and not so popular) culture; a group blog dedicated to culture: art, design, music, food, architecture, science, travel, movies, books, typography, politics, etc.; inclusive of geezers!; a delightful mixture of orange words and pictures of well, the insides of a stuffed animal–delightful all the same; the social network I never thought I’d join.</description>
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		<title>the allure of the automobile</title>
		<link>http://www.clusterflock.org/2010/03/the-allure-of-the-automobile.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deron Bauman</dc:creator>
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The High Museum of Art in Atlanta is hosting an exhibit of 18 cars designed from the 1930s to the 1960s. The exhibit opens in June. 
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<a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/03/high-museum-of-art-allure-automobile/"><img src="http://www.clusterflock.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/porsche-580x368.jpg" alt="" title="porsche" width="580" height="368" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-39938" /></a></p>
<p>The High Museum of Art in Atlanta is hosting <a href="http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/03/high-museum-of-art-allure-automobile/">an exhibit of 18 cars designed from the 1930s to the 1960s</a>. The exhibit opens in June. </p>
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		<title>shark-bitten crocodile poop fossils</title>
		<link>http://www.clusterflock.org/2010/03/shark-bitten-crocodile-poop-fossils.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deron Bauman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paleontologists have stumbled across a scientific first that’s sure to inspire both fascination and disgust: coprolites, or fossilized fecal matter, bearing the distinct impressions of a creature’s teeth.
The coprolites — one chunk of rock is fist-sized, the other is about 30 percent larger — were discovered on a beach along the western shore of Chesapeake [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/crocodile-poop/"><img src="http://www.clusterflock.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/handbitten-580x357.jpg" alt="" title="handbitten" width="580" height="357" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-39934" /></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Paleontologists have stumbled across a scientific first that’s sure to inspire both fascination and disgust: coprolites, or fossilized fecal matter, bearing the distinct impressions of a creature’s teeth.</p>
<p>The coprolites — one chunk of rock is <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/crocodile-poop/">fist-sized</a>, the other is about 30 percent larger — were discovered on a beach along the western shore of Chesapeake Bay, says Stephen Godfrey, a paleontologist at the Calvert Marine Museum in Solomons, Md.</p></blockquote>
<p>You&#8217;re welcome. </p>
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		<title>historical perspective</title>
		<link>http://www.clusterflock.org/2010/03/historical-perspective-2.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deron Bauman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Obamacare passes, that free insurance card that&#8217;s in people&#8217;s pockets is going to be as worthless as a Confederate dollar after the war between the states &#8212; the Great War of Yankee Aggression.
I remember hearing that phrase for the first time delivered by a 90-something archbishop in a sermon at a summer camp I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>If Obamacare passes, that free insurance card that&#8217;s in people&#8217;s pockets is going to be as worthless as a Confederate dollar after the war between the states &#8212; <a href="http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/gop-rep-sees-similarities-between-hcr-and-great-war-of-yankee-aggression.php?ref=fpblg">the Great War of Yankee Aggression</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>I remember hearing that phrase for the first time delivered by a 90-something archbishop in a sermon at a summer camp I worked at in Virginia &#8212; it was shockingly ridiculously gorgeously idiotically beautiful.  </p>
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		<title>a meditation on personal translation</title>
		<link>http://www.clusterflock.org/2010/03/a-meditation-on-personal-translation.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deron Bauman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyler Cowen reviews a newly translated collection of van Gogh&#8217;s letters. 
As for his letters to Theo, these are so full of life that it&#8217;s easy for the reader to assume that his brother is getting the &#8220;real Vincent.&#8221; But is he? Through much of this period, Theo is supporting van Gogh, either by sending [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tyler Cowen reviews <a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/03/my-review-of-the-new-edition-of-van-goghs-letters.html">a newly translated collection of van Gogh&#8217;s letters</a>. </p>
<blockquote><p>As for his letters to Theo, these are so full of life that it&#8217;s easy for the reader to assume that his brother is getting the &#8220;real Vincent.&#8221; But is he? Through much of this period, Theo is supporting van Gogh, either by sending him money, by selling his art (or trying to), or both. Writing to Theo, the artist comes across as whining, manipulative, and in careful control of the flow of information. It&#8217;s a kind of faux frankness, maybe not untrue but designed to portray a mind in creative ferment and to fit a certain stereotype. There is often first a thanks for money received, a blizzard of reports about what van Gogh is doing and painting, and then at the end a suggestion that even more painting, activity, and creative ferment might be possible if only Theo would do everything to support him. Time and again, the reader wonders just how much van Gogh and his brother trust each other. In the letter of August 14, 1879, for instance, he complains that Theo has advised him to give up his quest to be an artist. &#8220;And, joking apart, I honestly think it would be better if the relationship between us were more trusting on both sides,&#8221; van Gogh suggests, before apologizing for the possibility that so much of the family sorrow and discord have been caused by him. These look and sound like letters to his brother, but in essence we are reading fund-raising proposals.</p></blockquote>
<p>The larger review serves as a meditation on personal translation &#8212; the way we interpret ourselves for others. </p>
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		<title>The Cutest Little Dictator Around</title>
		<link>http://www.clusterflock.org/2010/03/the-cutest-little-dictator-around.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Weichhand</dc:creator>
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“We all have evil within us. Even small children are evil towards each other,” Danish-Norwegian artist Nina Maria Kleivan tells Haaretz as she explains why she chose to dress up her baby daughter as the most evil historical figures of the 20th century.
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<blockquote><p>“We all have evil within us. Even small children are evil towards each other,” Danish-Norwegian artist Nina Maria Kleivan tells Haaretz as she explains <a href="http://youbentmywookie.com/wtf/nina-maria-kleivans-potency-exploring-the-meaning-of-evil-8468" target="_blank">why she chose to dress up her baby daughter as the most evil historical figures of the 20th century</a>.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Harry Potter and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</title>
		<link>http://www.clusterflock.org/2010/03/harry-potter-and-the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deron Bauman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warner Brothers is counting on adaptations of L. Frank Baum&#8217;s Wizard of Oz series to fill the void left when the Harry Potter series ends. 
L. Frank Baum&#8217;s &#8220;The Wonderful Wizard of Oz&#8221; &#8212; the book that &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221; is based on &#8212; is just the first story in a series that spans [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Warner Brothers is counting on <a href="http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-oz-next-franchise.html?nc">adaptations of L. Frank Baum&#8217;s <em>Wizard of Oz</em> series</a> to fill the void left when the Harry Potter series ends. </p>
<blockquote><p>L. Frank Baum&#8217;s &#8220;The Wonderful Wizard of Oz&#8221; &#8212; the book that &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221; is based on &#8212; is just the first story in a series that spans 14 books. All fourteen books are now part of public domain. The original film, however, is not in public domain. In other words: Any reproduction of an element that was solely a part of the film&#8217;s story and not the book will have rights fees still associated.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Dallas Jail Guard Fired Over Comments</title>
		<link>http://www.clusterflock.org/2010/03/dallas-jail-guard-fired-over-comments.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cindy Scroggins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I believe that all dinosaurs were  born of Satanic angel who has sex        with woman and the animal  kingdom that created ungodly reptilian        creatures none of these  were on the Ark,&#8221; Johnson said.
Johnson also said  that he [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>&#8220;I believe that all <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/031610dnmetjailguard.3d93cdf.html">dinosaurs were  born of Satanic angel</a> who has sex        with woman and the animal  kingdom that created ungodly reptilian        creatures none of these  were on the Ark,&#8221; Johnson said.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Johnson also said  that he didn&#8217;t believe in homosexuality and &#8220;that they        should be  put to death,&#8221; according to his statement. But he said his         beliefs don&#8217;t lead him to treat gays differently.</p></blockquote>
<p>And y&#8217;all wonder why we stay in Texas.</p>
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		<title>quote out of context</title>
		<link>http://www.clusterflock.org/2010/03/quote-out-of-context-142.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deron Bauman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archaeologists believe the hundreds of 13-foot poles at the Small River Cemetery in a desert in Xinjiang Province, China, were mostly phallic symbols.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Archaeologists believe <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/science/16archeo.html?ref=science&#038;pagewanted=all">the hundreds of 13-foot poles at the Small River Cemetery in a desert in Xinjiang Province, China</a>, were mostly phallic symbols.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>&#8220;Double Falsehood&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.clusterflock.org/2010/03/double-falsehood.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deron Bauman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A play written in the 18th century by Lewis Theobald &#8212; and said to be based on &#8220;Cardenio&#8221;, a lost play by Shakespeare &#8212; has been published as a missing piece of Shakespeare&#8217;s work.
Alexander Pope, who had feuded with Theobald, chose the playwright as the focus of &#8220;The Dunciad&#8221; — a work in which a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A play written in the 18th century by Lewis Theobald &#8212; and said to be based on &#8220;Cardenio&#8221;, a lost play by Shakespeare &#8212; has been published as a missing piece of Shakespeare&#8217;s work.</p>
<blockquote><p>Alexander Pope, who had feuded with Theobald, chose the playwright as the focus of &#8220;The Dunciad&#8221; — a work in which a dunce replaces the Iliad&#8217;s hero. And Pope&#8217;s work is what brought Hammond from the 18th century to Shakespeare. He was working on Pope in the 1980s, and decided to investigate &#8220;<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100316/ap_on_en_ot/eu_britain_shakespeare">Double Falsehood</a>&#8221; further.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>FBI Top Ten Anniversary</title>
		<link>http://www.clusterflock.org/2010/03/fbi-top-ten-anniversary.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deron Bauman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of the FBI&#8217;s Top Ten Most Wanted list.
The year was 1949, and a reporter came to the FBI with a novel question: who were the “toughest guys” we were after? We responded with photos of 10 fugitives, which were published on the front page of The Washington Daily News. Although [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.fbi.gov/page2/mar10/wanted_031510.html"><img src="http://www.clusterflock.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/fbimugshot.jpg" alt="" title="fbimugshot" width="347" height="481" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-39725" /></a><br />
Yesterday was <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/page2/mar10/wanted_031510.html">the 60th anniversary of the FBI&#8217;s Top Ten Most Wanted list</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The year was 1949, and a reporter came to the FBI with a novel question: who were the “toughest guys” we were after? We responded with photos of 10 fugitives, which were published on the front page of The Washington Daily News. Although we didn’t know it at the time, a crime-fighting institution was born.</p>
<p>The “Top Ten” list immediately caught the public’s attention, and several of the fugitives were captured as a result of the media exposure. The following year—on March 14, 1950—we formally established our Ten Most Wanted Fugitives program, relying on the support of the public to help us capture the worst of the worst.</p></blockquote>
<p>The <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/photo_archive.htm">mugshot</a> archive. </p>
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