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		<title>The Nigerian prince has become a 19 year-old girl from Côte d&#8217;Ivoire.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Received this email today: Dearest, I got your contact from the internet and decided to contact you for my investment plans, hence it is the cheapest way for today’s communication. I am 19yrs old girl and sincerely wish to have your assistance in investing in your country so as to enable me relocate there to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2011/10/the-nigerian-prince-has-become-a-19-year-old-girl-from-cote-divoire</link>
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		<title>The trouble with partisans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Kazin penned a piece on The New Republic attacking &#8220;independents&#8221; in the U.S. (i.e., people who are neither Democrat or Republican, which as we all know are the only two schools of thought that can possibly exist). I single him out because his column reeks of the kind of narrow-minded thinking that stifles true [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2011/04/the-trouble-with-partisans</link>
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		<title>Malaysia Airlines: Our flight attendants talk shit about you</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to Kuala Lumpur about a year ago, and had visited Malaysia Airlines&#8217; website in search of some information. This is the gigantic splash screen image that greeted me, which I saved and then forgot about until now: It says &#8220;World&#8217;s Best Cabin Staff. More than just an airline code, MH is Malaysian Hospitality&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2011/02/malaysia-airlines-our-flight-attendants-talk-shit-about-you</link>
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		<title>When the spelling police can&#8217;t even spell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Came across this humorous article on BBC News today. Indeed, a major gaffe for the company to paint SHCOOL in giant white letters across a road. FAIL indeed. Then, I read the related links at the bottom, though, and the BBC&#8230;you guessed it&#8230;spelled the name of the school wrong. Oy vey. (It should be Southern [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2010/08/when-the-spelling-police-cant-even-spell</link>
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		<title>Consumption counts for nothing?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today my current RSS reader of choice alerted me to an article at one of my favorite publications, the Christian Science Monitor. The title of the article says it all: &#8220;Top five greenest nations on the planet.&#8221; Naturally, whenever you read something like that, your bullshit detector should be beeping and flashing, because apart from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2010/01/consumption-counts-for-nothing</link>
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		<title>facebook&#8217;s not-so-great firewall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am a twitter user and a facebook user. On facebook, I have it set so that the status message is automatically pulled from my twitter stream. Recently, I&#8217;ve noticed that many of my tweets don&#8217;t make it onto facebook. One reason I like the twitter messages going to facebook is that facebook has a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2010/01/facebooks-not-so-great-firewall</link>
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		<title>Google won&#8217;t leave China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a quick follow-up to yesterday&#8217;s somewhat rambling post on the subject: even if the government expels the company, Google won&#8217;t be leaving China. Seemingly lost amidst all the windbaggery on this topic is the fact that according to Alexa, google.cn is as of this writing the #3 most-trafficked website in China. google.com, though, is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2010/01/google-wont-leave-china</link>
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		<title>Clever PR move, Google: give up the ball</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chinese expat net-o-sphere is abuzz this week with Google&#8217;s challenge to the Chinese government. I&#8217;ve seen commentary ranging from mindless protestor-like exaltations of a company &#8220;sticking it to The Man&#8221; to the more patronizing and pragmatic &#8220;why would Google want to give up all the money they can make?&#8221; First, as someone living in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2010/01/clever-pr-move-google-give-u-the-ball</link>
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		<title>Down with Crown Vics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an expat I don&#8217;t do much driving in the U.S. these days, but in May I went back for a visit, and after a little drive through 5 states, I was reminded of a problem that needs to be addressed: civilian Ford Crown Victorias. I can&#8217;t for the life of me figure out why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2009/08/down-with-crown-vics</link>
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		<title>Walmart visit sparks existential crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going on with a normal day, getting work done, listening to music, and now, here I am drowning my sorrows in beer and questioning the significance of my existence. I visited a site that I never visit today: Walmart. This screen capture is a portion of the site&#8217;s header. But it was this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gravitycollapse.com/2009/07/walmart-visit-sparks-existential-crisi</link>
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