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		<title>Jim Fridenmaker: Obscure</title>
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			<title>Download the entire internet now!</title>
			<link>http://www.onzin.nl/internetdownload/</link>
			<description>&lt;P&gt;Quit wasting time...download the internet now!&amp;nbsp; &lt;A href=&quot;http://www.onzin.nl/internetdownload/&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onzin.nl/internetdownload/&quot;&gt;http://www.onzin.nl/internetdownload/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2004 02:50:33 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>&lt;P&gt;Enter to win free Ohio potato chips for a year.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.ohioproud.org/potatochip.html&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ohioproud.org/potatochip.html&quot;&gt;http://www.ohioproud.org/potatochip.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;for Ohio&apos;s potato chip history and a link to enter.&amp;nbsp; Deadline to enter is February 28, 2003.&amp;nbsp; Please mention you saw it here in the comment field.&amp;nbsp; (&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.jimfri.com/blog/categories/obscure/&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jimfri.com/blog/categories/obscure/&quot;&gt;http://www.jimfri.com/blog/categories/obscure/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/A&gt;)&lt;/P&gt;</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2003 02:33:30 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes.php3?author=Jackie+Mason&quot;&gt;Jackie Mason&lt;/A&gt;. &quot;I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.&quot; [&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html&quot;&gt;Quotes of the Day&lt;/A&gt;]</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2002 23:15:37 GMT</pubDate>
			<source url="http://www.quotationspage.com/data/qotd.rss">Quotes of the Day</source>
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			<description>Kids - They&apos;re not sleeping, they&apos;re recharging.</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2002 02:12:03 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes.php3?author=Lane+Olinghouse&quot;&gt;Lane Olinghouse&lt;/A&gt;. &quot;Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.&quot; [&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html&quot;&gt;Quotes of the Day&lt;/A&gt;]</description>
			<guid>http://www.jimfri.com/blog/categories/obscure/2002/07/31.html#a205</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2002 03:34:46 GMT</pubDate>
			<source url="http://www.quotationspage.com/data/qotd.rss">Quotes of the Day</source>
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			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Mothers-Wisdom.html?ex=1018242000&amp;en=a0c8f88b091249c3&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND&quot;&gt;Son Offers Mom&apos;s Wisdom on eBay&lt;/a&gt;. Dan Baber is so proud of his mother that he offered bidders on eBay a chance to buy one day of her attention. By The Associated Press. [&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.userland.com/newYorkTimes&quot;&gt;New York Times: Technology&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2002 22:01:06 GMT</pubDate>
			<source url="http://radiouser:Csm!]-tvMm@partners.userland.com/nyt/technology.xml">New York Times: Technology</source>
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			<description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href=&quot;http://www.sonic.net/~paul/humour/msg00317.html&quot;&gt;Wile E. Coyote Sues the Acme Corporation for Defective Products&lt;/A&gt;. The print version I saw yesterday included a response from the Acme Corporation, though....[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/&quot;&gt;The Shifted Librarian&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2002 12:46:05 GMT</pubDate>
			<source url="http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/rss.xml">The Shifted Librarian</source>
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			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.qconline.com/more/regs.html&quot;&gt;
TRAPPED!&lt;/a&gt; in a newspaper vending machine at Wal-mart.</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2002 04:31:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nandotimes.com/nation/story/324715p-2745815c.html&quot;&gt;Locals believe they know where backup government operates&lt;/a&gt;...Nah, not Portsmouth, Ohio locals.  From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nandotimes.com&quot;&gt;Nando Times&lt;/a&gt;/Associated Press.</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2002 03:42:12 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-2,3033970/&quot;&gt;&apos;Playboy&apos; plans to expose the women of Enron&lt;/a&gt;. Magazine seeks ladies rocked by energy giant&apos;s collapse. Money Markets &amp;#160; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usatoday.com/&quot;&gt;USA Today : Front Page&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2002 01:40:36 GMT</pubDate>
			<source url="http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/43/1843.xml">USA Today : Front Page</source>
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			<description>I noticed a scan by Google of my blog server log and went there to see what they scooped up.  By searching by my name, I found a post from 2000.
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
Google has archived a post to a question on a message board of what I 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=002zNx&quot;&gt;
ate during a weekend&lt;/a&gt;
 in April, 2000.  Yummy memories.
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2002 20:20:10 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>&lt;B&gt;From the &apos;Anything You Can Do Women Can Do Better&apos; Department&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1885000/1885348.stm&quot;&gt;Women browse the web better than men?&lt;a&gt;  Hmmmm, reminds me of an 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jillsjokeline.com/carfind.html&quot;&gt;email&lt;/a&gt; I got from a former co-worker a few weeks ago about the differences between men and women processing images.  I hope it wasn&apos;t an off-shoot of the same research project.  The web-browsing story is from [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metafilter.com/&quot;&gt;MetaFilter&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2002 19:36:07 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsisfree.com/click/-0,2984509/&quot;&gt;Robot with a press pass?&lt;/a&gt; [&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/&quot;&gt;CNN&lt;/a&gt;]</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2002 15:03:33 GMT</pubDate>
			<source url="http://www.newsisfree.com/HPE/xml/feeds/15/2315.xml">CNN</source>
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			<description>&lt;b&gt;Brings new meaning to &apos;cruising the old neighborhood.&apos;&lt;/b&gt;
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;
From the GIS (geographic information system) of the county where I used to live (Jackson County, Ohio), I found the 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jacksoncountygis.com/maps/jackson.mwf?ReportTarget=searcharea&amp;SelObjs=Parcels,M240080002500&amp;LAT=39.126964&amp;LON=-82.539571&amp;WIDTH=274.738794&amp;UNITS=ft&amp;EXT=.MWF&quot;&gt;house&lt;/a&gt;
 I lived in most of my life.</description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2002 01:15:44 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usmc.mil/directiv.nsf/by+subject?OpenView&amp;Count=3000&quot;&gt;Marine Corps Orders/Directives&lt;/a&gt;</description>
			<guid>http://www.jimfri.com/blog/categories/obscure/2002/03/20.html#a56</guid>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2002 04:05:14 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://radio.weblogs.com/0001014/images/2002/02/28/andersen.jpg&quot;&gt;
They shoulda used Sprint.&lt;/a&gt;
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			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2002 01:49:40 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>Simple, fun, online games.
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/&quot;&gt;http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2002 06:03:11 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>MINDANAO, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Earthquake...No Tsunami Expected...
from &lt;a href=&quot;http://wcatwc.arh.noaa.gov/message.shtml&quot;&gt;
West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center
&lt;/a&gt;

TO ALL TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM PARTICIPANTSSUBJECT: TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN
BULLETIN NUMBER 1WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED 03/05/2002 AT 2142 UTC
...THIS TSUNAMI INFORMATION BULLETIN IS FOR ALASKA, BRITISH
   COLUMBIA, WASHINGTON, OREGON, AND CALIFORNIA ONLY...
NO - REPEAT NO - WATCH OR WARNING IS IN EFFECT.EARTHQUAKE DATA:
 PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE: 6.8
 LOCATION:  6.1N 124.0E - MINDANAO, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS    
 TIME: 1216 AST 03/05/2002       1316 PST 03/05/2002       2116 UTC 03/05/2002
EVALUATION: BASED ON LOCATION AND MAGNITUDE THE EARTHQUAKE WAS NOT
 SUFFICIENT TO GENERATE A TSUNAMI DAMAGING TO CALIFORNIA,
 OREGON, WASHINGTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA OR ALASKA. SOME AREAS MAY
 EXPERIENCE SMALL SEA LEVEL CHANGES. IN AREAS OF INTENSE
 SHAKING, LOCALLY GENERATED TSUNAMIS CAN BE TRIGGERED BY SLUMPING.
THE PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER WILL ISSUE TSUNAMI BULLETINS
FOR HAWAII AND OTHER AREAS OF THE PACIFIC.
THIS WILL BE THE ONLY BULLETIN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT BY THE
WEST COAST AND ALASKA TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER UNLESS CONDITIONS
WARRANT. IF AVAILABLE, REFER TO THE INTERNET SITE
&lt;a href=&quot;HTTP://WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV&quot;&gt;HTTP://WCATWC.ARH.NOAA.GOV&lt;/a&gt; FOR MORE INFORMATION.
</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2002 02:02:39 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description>Techno MP3...&quot;I Wanna Be Britney Spears&apos; Boyfriend&quot; from 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beherboyfriend.com/&quot;&gt;ProducerNick&lt;/a&gt;.
Or, directly to the 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beherboyfriend.com/download.html&quot;&gt;
download&lt;/a&gt;
page here.
</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2002 01:09:58 GMT</pubDate>
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