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		<title>Judge Nullifies Human Gene Patents</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2010/03/30/judge-nullifies-human-gene-patents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge on Monday nullified patents associated with human genes known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer. It was the first time a federal court has invalidated a patent on genes. The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the case, said the New York federal court decision “calls into question the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Biggest Problem: Organized Crime</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/09/13/world-biggest-problem-organized-crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organized crime may have brought in more than $2 trillion in revenue last year, about twice all the military budgets in the world combined, according to the &#8220;2007 State of the Future&#8221; report, published by the Millennium Project of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, by Jerome C. Glenn and Theodore J. Gordon. The [...]]]></description>
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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 of Mysore in India as part of its attempt to broaden the Google Book Search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Censorship Grows Worldwide</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/21/internet-censorship-grows-worldwide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/05/21/internet-censorship-grows-worldwide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 20:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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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>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/12/temporary-autonomous-zones-by-hakim-bey/#comments</comments>
		<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 still radiates serene as the black pennants of Assassins, random &#38; perpetually intoxicated. Chaos comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Read The Bills Act&#8221; Grassroots Legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/21/the-read-the-bills-act-grassroots-legislation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/21/the-read-the-bills-act-grassroots-legislation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 16:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Congressmen are lawyers, and many others are businessmen. They know what &#8220;fiduciary responsibility&#8221; is. For Members of Congress, fiduciary responsibility means reading each word of every bill before they vote. But Congress has not met this duty for a long time. Instead . . . They carelessly pass mammoth bills that none of them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 &#8220;Transparency in Gov&#8217;t&#8221; Bills Pass The House</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/18/4-transparency-in-govt-bills-pass-the-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/18/4-transparency-in-govt-bills-pass-the-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Congress took an important step towards restoring openness and transparency in government. Over the past six years, the Bush Administration has done everything it can to operate in secret, to avoid public scrutiny, and to limit congressional oversight. I am pleased that Congress is reversing this course by passing four critically important good government [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/02/23/18-million-ancient-indian-manuscripts-go-online/#comments</comments>
		<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 manuscripts were lying neglected, the ministry had set up a National Mission for Manuscripts with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nasa and Google: A Match Made In The Heavens</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/12/19/nasa-and-google-a-match-made-in-the-heavens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/12/19/nasa-and-google-a-match-made-in-the-heavens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Detailed 3D images of the Moon and Mars will soon be just a click away for web users, following a deal between search giant Google and US space agency Nasa. The Space Agreement Act, signed on Monday, will put &#8220;the most useful of Nasa&#8217;s information on the internet&#8221;. Real-time weather data and the positions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Copyright Office Says OK to Cell Phone Unlocking, Game Emulators</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/11/24/us-copyright-office-says-ok-to-cell-phone-unlocking-game-emulators/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/11/24/us-copyright-office-says-ok-to-cell-phone-unlocking-game-emulators/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With number portability already possible in the U.S., cell phone users are freely allowed to carry their numbers to whichever carrier they choose. Taking your handset with you to a new carrier, however, is a completely different story. Many cell phone carriers “lock” their phones specifically to their network, meaning that any phone bought from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese City Makes Spreading &#8216;Rumors&#8217; Online Illegal</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/20/chinese-city-makes-spreading-rumors-online-illegal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/20/chinese-city-makes-spreading-rumors-online-illegal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reportedly concerned with the dissemination of rumors on the Worldwide Web, anyone using the Internet to spread malicious rumors in the Chinese municipality of Chongqing is now subject to a fine of up to 1,000 yuan to 5,000 yuan ($126-633) or even detention of five days or more. The recently-enacted regulations seek to bar Chongqing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post)modernism</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/16/postmodernism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Google Bails Out YouTube By Buying Out YouTube</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/10/google-bails-out-youtube-by-buying-out-youtube/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/10/google-bails-out-youtube-by-buying-out-youtube/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search giant Google announced on Monday that it would acquire the hot young video-sharing website YouTube, in a $1.65 billion stock deal. YouTube has soared in popularity since launching in February 2005 and estimates that more than 100 million videos are watched by visitors to its website each day. The site offers free content, ranging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Statute Set For File Sharing In Sweden</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/02/new-statute-set-for-file-sharing-in-sweden/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/02/new-statute-set-for-file-sharing-in-sweden/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 29-year old Swede, who was the first to be convicted under last year&#8217;s new file-sharing laws, has been cleared on appeal. The court of appeal did not consider the screen dumps provided by the Antipiracy Bureau enough evidence to be able to convict the man. Since the crime does not carry a high enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will The Next Election Be Hacked?</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2006/10/02/will-the-next-election-be-hacked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debacle of the 2000 presidential election made it all too apparent to most Americans that our electoral system is broken. And private-sector entrepreneurs were quick to offer a fix: Touch-screen voting machines, promised the industry and its lobbyists, would make voting as easy and reliable as withdrawing cash from an ATM. Congress, always ready [...]]]></description>
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