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	<title>Jay Jurisich</title>
	<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog</link>
	<description>rambling words, fragments, disasters and situations</description>
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		<title>Soiling the paper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I soil the paper to prepare it for hallucinations. I reverse the day&#8217;s attempt to assassinate me.&#8221; &#8211;Matta [Via Clayton Eshleman]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2010/06/soiling-the-paper/</link>
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		<title>Oroysom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recorded history of the general area Oroysom Prologue: The earthquake was established at the site of a flourmill The brother of the town&#8217;s largest employer owned a significant grizzly bear the town&#8217;s namesake Don José de Jesus de la Grizzly Bear the first English-speaking grizzly bear to inhabit the ruins of a GM plant [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2010/05/oroysom/</link>
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		<title>Great name generators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are looking to jumpstart your process of naming something &#8212; anything! &#8212; check out these name generators I created for my site Wordlab.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2010/05/great-name-generators/</link>
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		<title>In the Backroom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Eno / John Cale, &#8220;In the Backroom&#8221;, from the 1990 album Wrong Way Up: When Señoritas walk at night, Habañeros on the move, It&#8217;s music to their ears in the backroom. If there&#8217;s money to be made, And it&#8217;s a hundred in the shade and in the backroom, She&#8217;s sentimental like the last Of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2010/01/in-the-backroom/</link>
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		<title>Soft Monuments</title>
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		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/12/soft-monuments/</link>
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		<title>Thinking about things that other people will not</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A wonderful thought from Boris Vian, quoted in A half-century homage to France&#8217;s master-prankster, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the author / jazz musician / artist&#8217;s death: [Vian's] heightened sense of the absurd reached its apotheosis when he joined the Collège de pataphysique, a prestigious circle of French writers and academics studying pataphysics, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/12/thinking-about-things-that-other-people-will-not/</link>
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		<title>Possessions turn money into problems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Eno: &#8220;possessions are a way of turning money into problems.&#8221; From a New York Times editorial, Five Scenes, One Theme: A True if Unlikely Story, by Bono, November 14, 2009.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/11/possessions-turn-money-into-problems/</link>
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		<title>Turning dada into data</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leave it to science to transform dada into data. A new study suggests that the experience of nonsense, &#8220;may prime the brain to sense patterns it would otherwise miss &#8212; in mathematical equations, in language, in the world at large,&#8221; according to a recent article in the New York Times, How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/10/turning-dada-into-data/</link>
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		<title>A theory about theory and practice, put into practice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. &#8211; Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut (1953-1994), computer scientist and educator. This has also been attributed to Yogi Berra.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/02/a-theory-about-theory-and-practice-put-into-practice/</link>
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		<title>How to Build a Universe That Doesn&#8217;t Fall Apart Two Days Later</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just stumbled upon a great essay by Philip K. Dick, written in 1978, a few years before he die: How to Build a Universe That Doesn&#8217;t Fall Apart Two Days Later. It is longish, but an entertaining read. Here are some excerpts: It is my job to create universes, as the basis of one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/01/how-to-build-a-universe-that-doesnt-fall-apart-two-days-later/</link>
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		<title>Pace yourself the air is freezing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early afternoon yesterday, before the news broke about the plane ditching into the frigid Hudson river, I made this larger drawing from a chunk of words I first entered in the small book on Jan 7th (click the pic for a larger version): Is it megalomaniacal of me to think that I might be God, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/01/pace-yourself-the-air-is-freezing/</link>
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		<title>The perfect ditching of US Airways 1549</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a feat of amazing piloting by heroic captain Chesley B. &#8220;Sully&#8221; Sullenberger III, All 155 Escape Jet&#8217;s Plunge Into Hudson after a flock of geese take out both engines of the Airbus A320. Here&#8217;s a great cell phone photo snapped moments after the jet hit the drink by a tourist who was Twittering away [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2009/01/the-perfect-ditching-of-us-airways-1549/</link>
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		<title>Mumbai terrorist attacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More evidence that the world has gone crazy, in the form of a major, seven-site coordinated terrorist attack on Mumbai, India. Here is the five-star Taj Mahal Hotel on fire, from CNN.com:]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/11/mumbai-terrorist-attacks/</link>
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		<title>Linux boot sequence, visualized</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Super geeky, but a beautiful image &#8212; click on it for a larger version: Image created by Perry Hung, who explains: This is a visualization I made for funsies of a linux boot sequence where each function is a node and each edge represents a function call, direct branch, or indirect branch. Nodes are laid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/11/linux-boot-sequence-visualized/</link>
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		<title>Studio view &#8212; new work in progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a funky phone cam view looking back from the front of the studio of some new work in progress (click to enlarge):]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/09/studio-view-new-work-in-progress/</link>
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		<title>Russian smokestack implosion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a great shot from English Russia (click the pic to enlarge): Says English Russia, which posted a series of pictures and a video of this smokestack collapse: After the Soviet Era too much of objects stay abandoned in Russia and with the modern rise of development of new business and residential areas more and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.jurisich.com/blog/2008/09/russian-smokestack-implosion/</link>
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