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		<title>War Made Easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a must watch. YouTube link &#124; Hulu link &#124; Amazon link War Made Easy reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose 50 years of government spin and media collusion that has dragged our country into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq. With remarkable archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2011/11/07/war-made-easy/</link>
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		<title>Currency Devaluation and (the Illusion of) Economic Growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two great graphs, courtesy of Artemis Capital: German Stock Market during Wiemar Republic Hyperinflation S&#038;P 500 Adjusted Against Dollar-Index]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2011/11/04/currency-devaluation-and-the-illusion-of-economic-growth/</link>
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		<title>The Case Against Adolescence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a shame that I never blog anymore, now that I have things to say. I feel like I&#8217;ve grown more in the last three years than any other period in my life. My cousin Aaron and I have recently started exchanging some unfettered thoughts, which I&#8217;ve very much enjoyed. I&#8217;m thrilled that I lucked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2011/06/17/the-case-against-adolescence/</link>
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		<title>My Last Will and Testament</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had a hell of a life &#8212; better than I ever could have imagined or wished for &#8212; and, I plan to keep living it. However, it did occur to me recently that it would be preferable for my survivors to know my wishes in the event that it ends sooner than I expect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2011/06/17/my-last-will-and-testament/</link>
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		<title>Why I Might Donate to Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many consumers aren&#8217;t really privy to what goes on behind the scenes when people use credit cards. Well, let me tell you, it&#8217;s not pretty. Virtually any time you use your card &#8212; regardless of whether it&#8217;s a credit card or a debit card that you&#8217;re using like a credit card &#8212; the merchant gets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2011/04/11/why-i-might-donate-to-obama/</link>
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		<title>Bounty: gjots for Android</title>
		<description><![CDATA[$300 to the first person who ports gjots to Android. The Android app must have the same functionality as the latest version of gjots for Linux.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2011/01/01/bounty-gjots-for-android/</link>
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		<title>TiVo: Review, Links and Resources</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I know that TiVo has been around for a long time, But&#8230; I was recently looking for a way to watch certain video podcasts on my TV. For the life of me, I couldn&#8217;t find a hardware set-top-box that will just play video podcasts on my television. It seems like such a simple concept, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/12/27/tivo-review-links-and-resources/</link>
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		<title>Bounty: PHP Function that Scrapes Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I need a function to plug into a bigger piece of software that I wrote, that scrapes Google. It should be pretty simple for an experienced PHP programmer. I initially wrote a function that scrapes Scroogle, but they ban IPs after 100 queries, and I&#8217;d like to cut to the source since the function has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/12/21/bounty-php-function-that-scrapes-google/</link>
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		<title>$200 to the first person to create this simple app!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I will send $200, via PayPal, to the first person who creates the following, very simple, application: Objective Create an application for Linux that searches an IMAP account for large attachments, and allows users to pick attachments to be downloaded and deleted from their IMAP account. Functionality Prompt user for IMAP login credentials. Search IMAP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/12/01/first-code-bounty/</link>
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		<title>Code Bounties: An Explanation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For many years, I&#8217;ve told myself that if I ever had the money, I&#8217;d start creating bounties for the purpose of improving the software available to the Open Source community. That day has come, and for this just purpose, I&#8217;ve created a new &#8220;Bounties&#8221; section of my blog. My posted bounties will always be reachable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/11/30/code-bounties/</link>
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		<title>Livestation: For people who want real news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, I&#8217;d like to note that all news sources, including these, are biased to some degree. With that said, it&#8217;s often nice to get views of what&#8217;s going on in the world that aren&#8217;t directly influenced by the US government. For that, there is Livestation. It free, and it&#8217;s cross-platform. So, it works [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/10/28/livestation-for-people-who-want-real-news/</link>
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		<title>Encyclopedia Dramatica and One World Government</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea how I stumbled upon this, but I found it very interesting. For the sake of context, Encyclopedia Dramatica is, without question, one of the top five least-sane websites on the Internet, in terms of its content. Figuring out exactly what it is, and why, is an exercise that I will leave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/09/21/encyclopedia-dramatica-and-one-world-government/</link>
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		<title>Ubuntu Linux External Display Issues on the ThinkPad T410s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had a hell of a time finding a solution to this, so I figured I&#8217;d post the solution I found here for anyone else who happens to want to run Ubuntu on a ThinkPad T410s with an external display. Symptoms: &#8211; If you manage to get your external display working at all, it matches [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/09/20/ubuntu-linux-external-display-issues-on-the-thinkpad-t410s/</link>
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		<title>Gmail Compose Bookmarklet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you use Gmail for everything, as I do, you probably wish you had a way to create a &#8220;Compose&#8221; button that saves you from having to go to Gmail in a new browser tab, and let it load, before you compose a new message. There is an easy way to do this. Simply drag [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/09/11/gmail-compose-bookmarklet/</link>
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		<title>Differentiating Debits and Credits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To anyone reading this, sorry &#8212; something I just post things that are nothing more than notes to myself. And, I happen to be teaching myself how to keep books right now. This is a table of how credits and debits impact your accounts&#8230; TYPE DEBIT CREDIT Asset + − Liability − + Income − [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/09/11/differentiating-debits-and-credits/</link>
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		<title>Schedule Email to be Sent Later with Gmail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever wanted to schedule an email to be sent at a later time or date? Gmail doesn&#8217;t support this natively, but a Firefox addon called Boomerang adds the functionality. UPDATE: I&#8217;m not sure how long this will last, but here&#8217;s a direct download link so that you don&#8217;t have to wait for an invite code. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/09/10/schedule-email-to-be-sent-later-with-gmail/</link>
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		<title>SMEstorage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, I don&#8217;t have much time to write about this in detail right now, but it&#8217;s worth noting that if you use *any* cloud storage services, SMEstorage is worth checking out. It does a lot of different things, but a big part of what makes it useful for me is that it allows you to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/09/07/smestorage/</link>
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		<title>Long live TinyXP!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you *must* run Windows, instead of Linux or OS X, this is the version you should be running. TinyXP is XP with all of the wasteful crap stripped out. For details, see this blog post. To download, go here or here, depending on what you want.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/09/02/long-live-tinyxp/</link>
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		<title>Tips for New Ubuntu Installs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To move the window controls (Minimize, Maximize, Close) to the right side of a window, instead of the left, install this theme: http://ubuntu-art.org/content/show.php/Ambiance_R+%28Ambiance+Right+Side%29?content=123927 To make new Firefox tabs open on the right, instead of the left, follow these instructions: http://lifehacker.com/5456366/make-new-tabs-open-at-far-right-in-firefox-36 I forget how I installed, Flash, but you&#8217;ll probably want to do that, too. Feel [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/09/01/tips-for-new-ubuntu-installs/</link>
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		<title>George Orwell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past. ~ George Orwell, 1984 (1949) If you find this interesting, check out this LRC article by John Gatto.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrisbrunner.com/2010/08/26/george-orwell/</link>
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