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	<description>Sharing useful things with the world.</description>
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		<title>OkCupid tells me I&#8217;m attractive?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps they have me mixed up with someone else?

We are very pleased to report that you are in the top half
of OkCupid&#8217;s most attractive users. The scales recently tipped
in your favor, and we thought you&#8217;d like to know.

How can we say this with confidence? We&#8217;ve tracked click-thrus on your photo
and analyzed other people&#8217;s reactions to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firetree.net/2010/06/16/okcupid-tells-me-im-attractive/</link>
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		<title>Trystan Julliard Search (aka Cheryl Lynn Tate)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It must be nearly 10 years since I last saw Trystan. It&#8217;s a real shame, because I liked her a lot. I&#8217;ve asked everyone I can think of, and no one knows what&#8217;s become of her. So, Trystan &#8211; are you out there? If so, then drop me a line.
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		<link>http://blog.firetree.net/2010/03/03/trystan-julliard-search-aka-cheryl-lynn-tate/</link>
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		<title>Republic of Rome: Cheat Sheet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republic of Rome is a great boardgame. Or at least I think it is &#8212; I&#8217;ve never really been able to play a proper game. The rules are so complicated, and so badly written, that I&#8217;ve never really felt I understood them. So, I decided to write a cheat sheet. One that would be useful [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firetree.net/2010/02/27/republic-of-rome-cheat-sheet/</link>
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		<title>An interesting day for Copyright.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The UK&#8217;s Digital Economy Bill will introduce the concept of orphan works which may effectively abolish copyright on most photographs. Is this a foretaste of the future copyright in general?

The bill allows commercial use of a photograph if a search fails to identify the author. So a newspaper can use your photographs from Flickr, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firetree.net/2010/02/25/an-interesting-day-for-copyright/</link>
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		<title>confused.com, hmm&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[confused.com is a price comparison web-site. They gather lots of information about you, and offer no way to cancel your account. They also take the opportunity to spam your e-mail address with lots of unrelated offers.

Avoid.
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		<link>http://blog.firetree.net/2010/01/17/confused-com-hmm/</link>
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		<title>Powers of Arrest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/PowersofArrest/
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		<link>http://blog.firetree.net/2009/03/10/powers-of-arrest/</link>
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		<title>My fantasy Lord of the Rings cast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It just struck me that Alan Rickman would have played Denethor much better than whoever it was in the Peter Jackson movie. That idea has opened the floodgates&#8230;

So without further ado


Frodo BagginsJohnny Depp
Samwise GamgeeChristopher Biggins
MerryEddie Izzard
PippinSimon Pegg
AragornClint Eastwood (c. 1980)
GandalfAlec Guinness
LegolasPaul Newman
GimliMeatloaf
BoromirMel Gibson

Bilbo BagginsChristopher Walken
Tom BombadilBill Bailey
ElrondTim Curry
GollumRichard O&#8217;Brien
GaladrielBrigitte Nielsen
King ThÃ©odenBrian Blessed
Grima WormtongueRowan Atkinson
Ã‰owynSigourney Weaver
SarumanChristopher [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firetree.net/2009/02/09/my-fantasy-lord-of-the-rings-cast/</link>
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		<title>Imbolc&#8217;s supposed to be the first day of Spring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It certainly doesn&#8217;t look like Spring out there tonight. I was going to cycle to work tomorrow, not sure if I&#8217;ll make it now.


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		<link>http://blog.firetree.net/2009/02/02/imbolcs-supposed-to-be-the-first-day-of-spring/</link>
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		<title>The Latest News from the World of Cats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Miaow! Miaow! Mew mew mew. Miu miu. Mrrrrww rrrrwwwwrrrww&#8230;. Mrrrwww.

Miaow!

Rrrrrwww mmmm&#8230;. rrrrwwww mmmm&#8230; mmmrrrrwww&#8230;.

Proot!


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		<link>http://blog.firetree.net/2009/02/01/the-latest-news-from-the-world-of-cats/</link>
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		<title>Double-Glazing Film</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just added double-glazing film to the windows in our hall, landing and living-room. It&#8217;s fantastic!

The windows in our house are the original single-glazed wood frames. We&#8217;ve kept them for three reasons &#8211; we like them, they&#8217;re in good condition, and all the advice suggests that new double glazed windows are bad for the environment, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.firetree.net/2009/01/22/double-glazing-film/</link>
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