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	<title>dougist.com &#187; Best Of</title>
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	<description>Douglas Barone</description>
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		<title>FCS, Choirmaster at Grace Died on Tuesday.</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2010/10/fcs-choirmaster-at-grace-died-on-tuesday/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2010/10/fcs-choirmaster-at-grace-died-on-tuesday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around Town]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Cedric Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grace Church]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I received an email last night saying that Frank Cedric Smith, choirmaster at Grace Church from 1960 to 1992 died on Tuesday at his home in Cape Cod.

It’s given me pause, the email, more so than most of these types of messages. We all stop for a moment at an obituary listing. An obligatory reflection on mortality surfaces, always a bit selfishly because the thought ends up circling back around to our own situation; then we push those “me” thoughts away, and with forced reflection a memory stirs, we move back in time.

Frank Smith made me Head Chorister at Grace in 1975. (My name is up on the wall in the church lest I forget)]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Ready for PlainText</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2010/08/getting-ready-for-plaintext/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2010/08/getting-ready-for-plaintext/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Of]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DropBox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hog Bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infobase]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notational Velocity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve moved almost all my notes out of my SimpleText folder. A few seasons ago I put them all in there when Hog Bay launched its free syncing service to support WriteRoom and TaskPaper for the iPhone and iPad. I did it because I thought I’d be notating and editing all sorts of items in the newly freed, on the go, mobile existence of the “i” revolution — no need for a heavy laptop for me. I was wrong.]]></description>
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		<title>The Center Cannot Hold &#8211; Flarf in the WSJ</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2010/05/flarf-wsj/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2010/05/flarf-wsj/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 20:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Of]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flarf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharon Mesmer]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dougist.com/?p=1342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://dougist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sharon1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-380" title="Sharon Mesmer" src="http://dougist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sharon1.jpg" alt="" width="130" height="160" /></a>Sharon Mesmer, Flarf, The Wall Street Journal, Page One.

There really isn’t any more that I can say….Poetry makes the big time.

Click through for the evidence.]]></description>
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		<title>The Influential Books Game</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2010/03/ten-books/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2010/03/ten-books/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Of]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ross Douthat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ten books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tyler Cowen]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dougist.com/?p=1288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone’s making a list of ten books. Tyler Cowen started it. I caught up via Ross Douthat’s article NYT in the New York Times. The drill is: stream of consciousness, from the gut, no great research, off the top of your head, what ten books most influence your world view. Here's my list...]]></description>
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		<title>The Whitney Biennial &#8211; The End In Sight?</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2010/03/whitney-biennial/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2010/03/whitney-biennial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Of]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beinnial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guggenheim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modernism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MoMA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post post modern]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post-modernism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Whitney]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Spending Friday at the Whitney Museum of Art’s Biennial was like spending an afternoon watching YouTube, except the Whitney’s installations were of a lower production quality and were vastly less meaningful — even when shouting their relevance at full volume. Room after room showed video after video in the show billed as the art world’s statement of what’s happening now, a statement, the Whitney will tell you, it has been making for over 75 years.

But this version of the Beinnial’s statement is about  …]]></description>
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		<title>SimpleText, TaskPaper, WriteRoom, Notational Velocity &#8211; Going minimalist with my notes</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2010/02/minimalist-with-my-notes/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2010/02/minimalist-with-my-notes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Of]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going minimalist with my note taking tools has been a fantastic boon to my work flow. Using applications and tools that let me access my data set of files, without taking them over and making my work flow conform to the needs of those applications, has removed a whole set of steps, perhaps most importantly the one between capturing ideas and processing them to finished work.

Before, there was always the PITA process of transiting from flaneur to writer, now they are one and the same act; in other words the technology is doing what it is supposed to do.]]></description>
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		<title>My policy on email</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2010/01/my-policy-on-email/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2010/01/my-policy-on-email/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Of]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[email]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merlin Mann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neal Stephenson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I get a lot of email, I mean a lot —  not as much as I did when I was in commerce, but still what could justifiably be called a deluge. Some if it is of my own making, most is not. Almost all of it demands a thoughtful reply, and each reply takes, for me at least, emotional energy, if the response is going to be more than the web 2.0 version of a grunt.

In addition to the volume of mail I get, emailers have increasingly imposed their own ever shortening version of response times on that torrent. Besides whatever they wrote, they implicitly say: I wrote you. I want, demand, will extort, a reply NOW.

Here's what I do...]]></description>
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		<title>Justus Rosenberg on rescuing victims of the Nazis</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2010/01/justus-rosenberg-video/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2010/01/justus-rosenberg-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Of]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Visionaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justus Rosenberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linguistics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Justus Rosenberg was the youngest member of the team led by Varian Fry that rescued some of Europe's most famous artists, writers, and intellectuals who had taken refuge in France prior to the Nazi occupation.
</br>
I studied linguistics under Dr. Rosenberg at The New School in the Fall of 2008. This video tell his story from the 1940's, and in the post I tell a little story shared between us that fall.]]></description>
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		<title>myMFA &#8211; A two year writer’s development program</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2010/01/mymfa-a-two-year-writer%e2%80%99s-development-program/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2010/01/mymfa-a-two-year-writer%e2%80%99s-development-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Of]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIYMFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MFA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[myMFA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago a writing pal passed along a link to Dennis Cass’ post discussing his version of an idealized MFA program, an alternative MFA. Cass’ point of view was that traditional MFA curriculums were filed with blanks, specifically outside of craft development, as done through workshops, and outside (perhaps) literary criticism, as done through massive reading work.

This struck a cord with me, it sounded about right, so I went off and built one of my own, what I call <strong>myMFA</strong>, it’s outlined in detail, along with the schedule of how I implemented it in 2009 and 2010, after the jump…]]></description>
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		<title>File System Infobase Manager</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2009/08/file-system-infobase-manager/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2009/08/file-system-infobase-manager/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Best Of]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alex Payne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Being a Writer]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://dougist.com/?p=427</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've posted a complete outline of my File System Based Info Manager. It's the tool I use to manage all my writing, notes, reference material, bibliographies, and records. It's based on Alex Payne's architecture ideas, Noguchi Yukio's organizational systems, and input from my pals over on the Scrivener Forums.

So far it is one of the most popular posts on dougist.com.]]></description>
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		<title>Sharon Mesmer for Brooklyn Poet Laureate</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2009/06/sharon-mesmer-for-brooklyn-poet-laureate/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2009/06/sharon-mesmer-for-brooklyn-poet-laureate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:42:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alan Ginsberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flarf]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharon Mesmer is on the short list for the next Brooklyn Poet Laureate to succeed Ken Siegelman.

It really isn’t a contest is it? She has to get the nod.

In a <a href="http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/32/25/32_25_gk_new_poet_laureate.html" target="_blank">story Gene Kuntzman did</a> for the The Brooklyn Paper he wrote:
<a href="http://dougist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sharon1.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-380 alignleft" style="margin-top: 24px; margin-bottom: 14px; border: 5px solid black;" title="Sharon Mesmer" src="http://dougist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/sharon1-227x300.jpg" alt="Sharon Mesmer" width="182" height="240" /></a>

&#60;

blockquote>"Mesmer will get the vote of anyone who likes a randy dame who’s not afraid to write poems with titles like “Annoying Diabetic Bitch” and “Holy Mother of Monkey Poo.”

“If anyone is suggesting me [as poet laureate], it must be because I slept around so much,” she said. But she’s being modest: Mesmer, who studied under Allen Ginsberg, teaches at the New School and, this fall, at Brooklyn College.]]></description>
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		<title>Email as ToDo List</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2009/06/email-as-todo-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Pogue, the Technology Editor at the New York Times, has caused a stir withis last email update. In it he described a short list of his productivity secrets and to the gasps of GTD/David Allen proselytes the world over he declared that he uses his email inbox as his todo list.

I thought I heard the followers of Merlin Mann and his 43 Folders InboxZero program clutch their collective chests.

I joined in by posting...

<blockquote>I love todo list so much I had dozens - Omnifocus, iGTD, iCal, Things, legal pads, 3x5 cards, all of it. Then I relized the wonder of the one inbox, and I have made my email that box. Like Pogue, anything that comes in is filed, replied to, or tossed a la basic GTD principles. What is left over are todo/project emails.

The problem with using the inbox...</blockquote>]]></description>
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		<title>Drag Over Violence on 24th Street</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2009/03/drag-over-violence-on-24th-street/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2009/03/drag-over-violence-on-24th-street/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[West 24th Street. It’s not even a street, or at least it wasn’t till recently. Around 1970, it was an old alleyway, off 11th Avenue, left over from the better violence of 23rd or 14th street. Even 27th had more action, with at least a bar or two for the Irish toughs to bust each other’s heads. But on 24th, nothing. At best it was the place for a drag away crime. In other words the assault occurred on 23rd and the victim was dragged over to a building on 24th for the slow completion of man’s love against man.

Today, that is oh, so different. Now in gallery after gallery, 24th street can, in a proud moment, claim to be a center of the modern art world, such as it is in the depression of 2009. After a few - how many, too many - Martinis this afternoon, I decided that no, a nap was not appropriate, but a slip out the back door of my apartment to the street that girdles my block was better. Just one block, just one stretch, that even with the Gagosian closed for rehanging (of the fabulous, shamed that you missed it, Piero Manzoni, exhibit) still has more, and better, art than all the halls of the Whitney, shame on them. This was how I would spend my afternoon...]]></description>
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		<title>Dating DEVONThink</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2009/02/dating-devonthink/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2009/02/dating-devonthink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was all excited. I thought I had found a solution to my vexing Journler problems. Crashes, freezes, all manner of frustrations had pushed me away from the love of my life application. Journler was the app I had been immersed in for the first year of my writing, my first crush, but the application’s solo developer had gone off, and it was clear, the bugs that existed would be problems forever, so I went looking for another.

I wrote “Bye, bye, Journler. DEVONThink is my girl now. She’s not beautiful like you, kind of clumsy actually, but she is smart and will be here for the long haul...”

Now I’m starting to wonder. DEVONThink is an application best described as inattentive to its appearance. It is messy in the way it interacts with others and is more worried about the mad scientist, artificial intelligence core of the program than in adding any real value to how users create or manage data...]]></description>
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		<title>Artists Stand Naked</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2009/02/artist-stand-naked/</link>
		<comments>http://dougist.com/2009/02/artist-stand-naked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All these writing exercises, many under time constraints - “Please do a character development using dialogue and no description for the next 12 minutes” - become like unconstrained mini-therapy, without the benefit of professional interpretation.

“You are not the narrator...” Sure I’m not. I’m supposed to connect with my “conscious, make friends with it” and “take a stand in your work”. If I really took a stand everyone in the room would fall down.

I’m learning that artists stand naked. Perhaps that’s why they are hunched over all the time.]]></description>
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		<title>The End Of Cynicism?</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2008/11/the-end-of-cynicism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is this the end of cynicism? Obama's soaring victory speech in Chicago last night was an oratorical flourish of positivism, such as has been missing in public discourses in America for years.

But what does this victory mean to the future tone of discourse in America? Is this the end of cynicism, the tone of voice which has become the best way to identify one as an American? Now that the revolution is over how will we speak, casually and formally, without the ability to mock, snark or deride the archetypes built since the 1960's?

Certainly the old rebellion is over, so what will replace its messenger, which has been the sound of sarcasm in our voice? ]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t jump to conclusions&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2008/10/dont-jump-to-conclusions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s human nature; we find the quickest way to apply a map to a simple fact and extrapolate from it grand conclusions. The biologists say it’s evolutionary. It’s hard wired in us, they say, and it’s part of what makes us greater than the apes.

“We are in an ontological pickle” a friend told me recently, and she was right.

To deal with this I suggest a “Rule of Three”, but be careful that you don't eat the pickle along the way...]]></description>
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		<title>Ogame and Web 2.0</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2008/10/ogame-and-web-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For about a week now my Macbook has been at the doctor’s having its failed hard drive replaced. Since I do most of my writing in Journler, I've taken this little interuption as an excuse to play way too much Ogame.

Along the way, between launching space fleets and building colonies, I’ve been thinking about whether this simple but wildly popular game is a harbinger of the future of gaming environments or a remnant of the past, and what it tells us about the formation of the Web 2.0 organizations that will increasingly be in our lives.

I wrote

<blockquote>"The inflection point of web 2.0 is not about the progression along a path of increasing functionality, where each subsequent development leads to more and better. Web 2.0 is about a whole new way of interacting, with conection and interpersonal interaction trumping the output of processors and their supporting databases. At its core the technology has gotten powerfull enough that we can be simple again, and in that simplicity find a vastly new level of complexity."</blockquote>

Oh, and I’ve certainly increased my level of Ogame addiction, because well, what else am I going to do? They don’t cal it O-crack for nothing....]]></description>
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		<title>A few provocative questions for the Presidential debate</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2008/10/a-few-provocative-questions-for-the-presidential-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people have lists of questions they want asked at tonight's (or any) Presidential debate.
Most center on the current economic crisis.

I’d like to add five questions that I’m not sure are in many people’s list...]]></description>
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		<title>Tower Defense</title>
		<link>http://dougist.com/2008/09/tower-defense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I lost Saturday, Sunday and Monday to the cutest little game called Tower Defense. It completely mesmerized me for three days. I was told that during that period I hardly moved and there is no question that on Friday when I looked down to start playing it was morning, and when I again looked up, it was night. I haven't been this engrossed in a game since Stronghold devoured weeks of my life back in 2002.

What is it about this game and why is it so cool...]]></description>
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