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		<title>Google To Scan 800,000 Books &amp; Manuscripts From Indian University</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/22/google-to-scan-800000-books-manuscripts-from-indian-university/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2007 18:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Need to dig up some information from a centuries-old text on ayurvedic medicine? Soon you&#8217;ll be able to do so from the comfort of your living room. Google has agreed to index and digitize 800,000 texts stored at the University &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/22/google-to-scan-800000-books-manuscripts-from-indian-university/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Sacred Text for the 21st Century</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/19/a-sacred-text-for-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>michaelgarfield</dc:creator>
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		<title>Kurt Vonnegut: 1922 ~ 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/16/kurt-vonnegut-1922-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[chicago tribune Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like &#8220;Slaughterhouse-Five,&#8221; &#8220;Cat&#8217;s Cradle&#8221; and &#8220;God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater&#8221; caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died Wednesday night in &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/16/kurt-vonnegut-1922-2007/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Legacy of Carlos Castaneda</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/16/the-dark-legacy-of-carlos-castaneda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For fans of the literary con, it&#8217;s been a great few years. Currently, we have Richard Gere starring as Clifford Irving in &#8220;The Hoax,&#8221; a film about the &#8216;70s novelist who penned a faux autobiography of Howard Hughes. We&#8217;ve had &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/16/the-dark-legacy-of-carlos-castaneda/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/12/temporary-autonomous-zones-by-hakim-bey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM (Dedicated to Ustad Mahmud Ali Abd al-Khabir) Chaos CHAOS NEVER DIED. Primordial uncarved block, sole worshipful monster, inert &#38; spontaneous, more ultraviolet than any mythology (like the shadows before Babylon), the original undifferentiated oneness-of-being &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/12/temporary-autonomous-zones-by-hakim-bey/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>1.8 Million Ancient Indian Manuscripts Go Online</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/02/23/18-million-ancient-indian-manuscripts-go-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government has created an online database of 1.8 million ancient texts to promote them as treasures of the country and to preserve millions of neglected manuscripts. Out of the five million manuscripts, 1.8 million have been documented. As the &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/02/23/18-million-ancient-indian-manuscripts-go-online/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Comforts of Madness: Novelist J G Ballard Explains Why Consumerism is a New Fascism</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/16/the-comforts-of-madness-novelist-j-g-ballard-explains-why-consumerism-is-a-new-fascism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Sep 2006 03:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[J G Ballard knows about selling. As a young man he briefly peddled children&#8217;s encyclopaedias, working the psychological relationship between the middle-class hawker and the punter bent on self-improvement. &#8220;Selling is like wooing a girl,&#8221; says Ballard. Ballard &#8220;believed in&#8221; &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/16/the-comforts-of-madness-novelist-j-g-ballard-explains-why-consumerism-is-a-new-fascism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Dalai Lama Challenges the Idea of Neurologically Situated Consciousness In New Book</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/15/dalai-lama-challenges-the-idea-of-neurologically-situated-consciousness-in-new-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IN HIS RECENT REVIEW of the Dalai Lama’s book, The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality, George Johnson criticizes the Dalai Lama for opposing “physical explanations for consciousness, invoking instead the existence of some kind &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/09/15/dalai-lama-challenges-the-idea-of-neurologically-situated-consciousness-in-new-book/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligent Intelligent Design</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/03/14/intelligent-intelligent-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surprisingly, Autodesk founder John Walker sides with intelligent design, but not by a deity&#8212;by post-Singularity intelligences creating a reality simulation: &#8220;What would we expect to see if we inhabited a simulation? Well, there would probably be a discrete time step &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/03/14/intelligent-intelligent-design/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wil McCarthy&#8217;s &#8220;Hacking Matter&#8221; Available for Free</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/01/01/wil-mccarthys-hacking-matter-available-for-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2006 19:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wil McCarthy&#8217;s incredibly compelling book, Hacking Matter, has been released in a free pdf form. It&#8217;s great that the book can now be freely shared.&#8221; Hacking Matter is a science book about Wil&#8217;s research on &#8220;quantum dots&#8221;&#8212;configurable &#8220;mezzoscale&#8221; (larger than &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/01/01/wil-mccarthys-hacking-matter-available-for-free/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Candid Video of William S. Burroughs From August 1996</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/12/26/candid-video-of-william-s-burroughs-from-august-1996/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2005 18:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this video on our town website, Lawrence.com, as Burroughs spent the last years of his life here in Lawrence, Kansas. It&#8217;s about 20 minutes of amature video of Bill just hanging out with friends (including Steve Buscemi &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/12/26/candid-video-of-william-s-burroughs-from-august-1996/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Library of Congress Launches Effort to Create World Digital Library</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/12/16/library-of-congress-launches-effort-to-create-world-digital-library/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin announced today that Google is the first private-sector company to contribute to the Library’s initiative to develop a plan to begin building a World Digital Library (WDL) for use &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/12/16/library-of-congress-launches-effort-to-create-world-digital-library/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Integral Spirituality by Ken Wilber</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/24/integral-spirituality-by-ken-wilber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 06:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the last 30 years, we have witnessed a historical first: all of the world’s cultures are now available to us. In the past, if you were born, say, a Chinese, you likely spent your entire life in one culture, &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/24/integral-spirituality-by-ken-wilber/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Googling Your Genes &#8211; Chapter 26 of &#8220;The Google Story&#8221; by David Vise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sergey Brin and Larry Page have ambitious long-term plans for Google&#8217;s expansion into the fields of biology and genetics through the fusion of science, medicine, and technology. Their goal&#8212;through Google, its charitable foundation, and an evolving entity called Google.org&#8212;is to &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/20/googling-your-genes-chapter-26-of-the-google-story-by-david-vise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Doors of Perception by  Aldous Huxley</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/20/the-doors-of-perception-by-aldous-huxley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was in 1886 that the German pharmacologist, Louis Lewin, published the first systematic study of the cactus, to which his own name was subsequently given. Anhalonium lewinii was new to science. To primitive religion and the Indians of Mexico &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2005/11/20/the-doors-of-perception-by-aldous-huxley/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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