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		<title>Movie Monday: Stranger Than Fiction</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2006/09/04/stranger-than-fiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ferrell as Harold Crick
Stranger Than Fiction looks to be a crisp comedy with roles well-suited for Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, and Dustin Hoffman. It&#039;s due out November 10, in time for the Thanksgiving Hollywood push. Based on the trailer and other media I have seen thus far, I have placed it on my List of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lists of Bests</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2006/08/13/lists-of-bests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2006 04:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even though it was just a click away, I finally discovered Lists of Bests, which is part of the 43 Things family. Read more about my 43 Things at Random Fodder.
Lists of Bests allows you to create and find lists of products, places, goals and people. From the Pulitzer Prize to the Oscars and beyond; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foto Friday: Testicular Self-Examination</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2006/06/23/testicular-exam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#039;s Foto Friday brings us a scan from a brochure I found when in the urologist&#039;s office. I quickly realized that a urologist&#039;s office is a wonderful place to pick up some fairly interesting brochures.
This particular brochure is for testicular self-examination. The first disconcerting thing was the picture of the man who looks a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephen Hawking to Write Kids&#039; Book</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2006/06/16/hawking-kids-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[See Dick run. See Jane run. See Spot explaining the theoretical physics behind black holes and time travel.
That&#039;s right &#8212; Stephen Hawking is slated to write a tehoretical physics book with his daughter aimed at children.
Of course, the planned children&#039;s books will not be a straight, dry telling of the facts, but his daughter, Lucy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Da Vinci Code Hoax</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2006/05/17/da-vinci-code-hoax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 May 2006 05:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As any rational person should realize, The Da Vinci Code is fiction, and not much else. It&#039;s just ::amazon(&#034;1400079179&#034;, &#034;a novel&#034;)::, just ::imdb(&#034;tt0382625&#034;, &#034;a movie&#034;)::. Why, then, are many Christians up in arms over the story, if that&#039;s all it is? The answer is simple, as Massimo Introvigne points out:
People who ask this question usually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>May 6 Is Free Comic Book Day</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2006/05/06/free-comic-book-2006/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2006 14:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Saturday May 6 2006, is Free Comic Book Day!
To find out which comic book shops in your area are participating, head over to the Free Comic Book Day site and enter your zip code. There are a surprising number of participating shops, so you shouldn&#039;t be disappointed.
Of course, you can&#039;t just walk in and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confuse and Frighten Strangers with FlapArt</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2006/03/28/flapart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 02:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to . . . 
If you&#039;re anything like me and you frequently take public transportation, spend your lunch hour in mall food courts, or have textbooks that require book covers, you&#039;ll find FlapArt to be a valuable product. FlapArt really is merely a book cover, but with a twist for the mentally twisted. Michelle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Darwin Awards</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2006/03/18/darwin-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the death today of the Saturday&#039;s Simpleton theme, I remembered one of the best resources for simpletons: the Darwin Awards.
By now, most people are familiar with the Darwin Awards. If you&#039;re one of the few who are still unfamiliar with the Darwin Awards, here&#039;s the official explanation:
In the spirit of Charles Darwin, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Send a Message 50,000 Years into the Future</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2006/03/11/keo-time-capsule/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Mar 2006 16:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, something from the UN that I&#039;ll post positively about!
UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is backing a project they have dubbed the project of the 21st century. This project is titled KEO.
At the end of 2007 (or possibly in 2008), the satellite KEO will be launched into space for 50,000 years, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Should I Read Next?</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2006/02/26/read-next/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#039;s site is What Should I Read Next?
Though the interface is clunky and the results are questionable, the idea is fun. You add a list of your favorite books and the site suggests some additional reading material for you. If nothing else, brainstorming a list of your favorite books is worth the trouble.
One awful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elmo May Kill You</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2006/01/10/homicidal-elmo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go ahead and buy the book &#034;Potty Time With Elmo.&#034; Chances are, you&#039;ll receive a helpful, delightful little book that will encourage your youngster to start using the potty. Of course, there is that small chance that Elmo will threaten to kill you, instead.
Interestingly, the company that manufactures the book has said that there have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Lemony Snicket Cocktail</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 14:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
I am a big fan of Lemony Snicket&#039;s A Series of Unfortunate Events and of the audiobooks read by Tim Curry.
I downloaded a free Daniel Handler interview via iTunes. If you&#039;re interested, just go to the iTunes Store in the program, search &#034;Snicket,&#034; and look for the free listing. In the interview, he answers one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Monday: War of the Worlds</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2005/06/27/war-of-the-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2005 07:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Movie Monday: War of the Worlds. Read the review in this post.]]></description>
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		<title>Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2005/06/14/assassinations-foretold-in-moby-dick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2005 15:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the mumbo jumbo with hidden codes from the Da Vinci Code et. al., I thought I would offer you "Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick."]]></description>
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		<title>The Clinton Girls (Not Hillary and Chelsea)</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2005/06/12/clinton-girls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2005 20:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On May 31, the paperback version of Bill Clinton's My Lies was be released. Instead of wasting your money on this fodder, instead purchse Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine.]]></description>
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		<title>Freakonomics</title>
		<link>http://smarmycarny.com/archives/2005/06/10/freakonomics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2005 01:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Novac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subject of economics is boring as far as I'm concerned . . . unless, of course, the subject is being discussed by Steven D. Levitt.]]></description>
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