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		<title>Evidence of election tampering reaching critical mass</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The statistics show that there was unfunny business in recent elections.  They show it far past scientific levels of certainty.  The statistical likelihood of fraud (&#8221;nonrandom events&#8221; in statspeak) is billions to one.  (Links to the original research here.)  But what keeps too many of us looking the other way &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/07/evidence-of-election-tampering-reaching-critical-mass/</link>
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		<title>Friday photo 4</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at the Santa Barbara Orchid Fair last weekend.  (It&#8217;s a tough job, but somebody&#8217;s got to do it.)  One of the huge growers there, SB Orchid Estates does an open house at the same time.  This striking species caught my eye: 

Platystele misera
And this one:

Stanhopea tigrina cultivar
The Central and South [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/07/friday-photo-4/</link>
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		<title>A Blast from the Past</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have birds.  I use newspapers to line the bird cages.  However, I haven&#8217;t bought a newspaper since November of 2004.  It&#8217;s too depressing.  So I&#8217;m getting to the bottom of the stack that was going to be recycled when I realized I better save it.  Who knew when the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/07/a-blast-from-the-past/</link>
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		<title>Friday photo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This time it really is a Friday, but the picture isn&#8217;t a photo, no matter how much it looks like one.  It&#8217;s one of Kees Veenenbos&#8217;s amazing renderings of other worlds based on the available data from space flights.  His work has appeared in National Geographic (print edition ).  Go to Veenenbos&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/07/friday-photo-3/</link>
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		<title>Friday photo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think this should be a motivational poster.  You know, the kind with captions like &#8220;Determination,&#8221; and &#8220;Perseverance,&#8221; and &#8220;Achieve Your Goals.&#8221;  This one should be: &#8220;Energy Conservation.&#8221;



The elephant seals are working hard, regenerating all-new skin.  It&#8217;s called a catastrophic molt and it takes several weeks.  When molting, they&#8217;re too susceptible [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/07/friday-photo-2/</link>
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		<title>Photovoltaics: (some more) depressing news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photovoltaics do take energy to make and use toxic elements that can cause nasty pollution unless they&#8217;re contained.  We knew that.  But what I didn&#8217;t really bother to think about is that those same rare elements that are toxic are also, well, rare.  We&#8217;re using them like they&#8217;re not rare.  So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/07/photovoltaics-some-more-depressing-news/</link>
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		<title>Friday photo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I keep wanting to do something with pictures, and I keep procrastinating dreadfully.  But just because I drop the ball all the time is no reason not to pick up again.  If I didn&#8217;t, I wouldn&#8217;t have anything to drop, would I?
This is a close-up of Dracula venefica taken at the Leiden Botanical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/06/friday-photo/</link>
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		<title>Sneaky, nasty, nationwide attack on solar power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time to go all King-Arthur-and-Knights and do something about this.  What, I have no idea.  It&#8217;s such an arcane bureaucratic maneuver, I don&#8217;t know which levers apply.  Those who do know, please comment or contact me and I&#8217;ll update the post.  I saw this on Slashdot.
&#8220;The US Bureau of Land Management, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/06/sneaky-nasty-nationwide-attack-on-solar-power/</link>
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		<title>Upgrading Wordpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Update, June 30: One blogger I know who uses a number of widgets ran into difficulties with this upgrade method.  Be careful, out there!  Back up first!  Always back up first!
First the good part:  my blog runs on Wordpress, the software works, it&#8217;s easy to install, and easy to use.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/06/upgrading-wordpress/</link>
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		<title>And so it begins: proxy war on Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been expecting this.  The Administration needs a Really Big distraction before the election from everything that&#8217;s boiling over on the back burner.  Health care, education, house prices, gas prices, Iraq, and the list goes on.  The early stages of a war, the stage when it&#8217;s all about bunting and heroic young [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/06/and-so-it-begins-proxy-war-on-iran/</link>
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		<title>WisCon 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WisCon is billed as &#8220;the world&#8217;s leading feminist science fiction convention.&#8221;  &#8220;That&#8217;s easy,&#8221; you might be saying.  &#8220;It&#8217;s the world&#8217;s only feminist sf con.&#8221;  But you&#8217;d be wrong.  There are others and this one is the biggest.  I have to admit, I went to it for the first time with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/06/wiscon-2008/</link>
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		<title>Newspeak: funny sometimes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been giving much thought lately to ads, or, to be more exact, brainless repetitive messages generally.  What with some very smart people (Dyson, Krugman 1996, 2008) predicting an ad-supported future, and what with the way that future is already among us, it&#8217;s high time to start thinking about how much free stuff costs. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/06/newspeak-funny-sometimes/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve had it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With this election, that is.  Kate&#8217;s post brought it boiling back up, but so does practically everything right now.  Just so you know we&#8217;re really out there: I&#8217;m mad as hell, and I&#8217;m not taking it any more.  Not only can the Democrats not take my vote for granted, they&#8217;ve lost it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/06/ive-had-it/</link>
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		<title>Privileged ignorance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talk about not knowing.  I live in the country that did it.  I was living in that country when they did it.  I knew the US bombed Laos.  I had no idea it was so bad.
From the BBC:
Laos is the most bombed country on earth. The US dropped 2.4 million tonnes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/06/privileged-ignorance/</link>
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		<title>Get Firefox.  Set a record.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mark your calendars.  Tuesday&#8217;s the day.  People all over the world will be downloading Firefox 3.
Why?  I&#8217;m glad you asked.
1) Firefox is an awesome browser, now with version 3 goodness.  (It really is good.  I&#8217;ve been using pre-release versions for a couple of months now, and it is Good.)
2) By [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2008/06/get-firefox-set-a-record-2/</link>
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		<title>We&#8217;re from the government.  Trust us.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Except to say notice the URL, passed without comment.

Copyright &#169; 2008 Acid Test. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at has taken probably taken my work to try to generate advertising money. Please report them to me! [...]]]></description>
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