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	<description>It&#039;s All Grist for the Personal Mill</description>
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		<title>New Ethshar Serial Starting</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/07/13/new-ethshar-serial-starting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After too long, Lawrence Watt-Evans is spinning up a new Ethshar serial &#8212; The Final Calling.  His Ethshar novels are excellent light fantasy, and are notable for having both a great amount of interesting, powerful magic as well as very believable, human characters that for the most part treat magic as just another phenomenon to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Seems I&#8217;m Actually A Woman&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/03/17/it-seems-im-actually-a-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/?p=1578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had not come across this before, but there is an online analyzer for prose that purports to determine if the author is male or female, apparently by counting the frequency of certain keywords in your text. So I scraped the front page of my blog and fed it into the analyzer.  Although the count [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Implicit Association Test</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2010/02/10/implicit-association-test/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/?p=1513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a very interesting website that purports to test your unconscious association between different classes of things.  Many of the tests are to identify whether you have a implicit preference for certain types of people (black or white, old or young, slim or overweight, etc.) but there are other tests that operate on names or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New IF Links</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/11/23/new-if-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interactive Fiction]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/?p=1181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m adding several of the better IF sites to my blogroll.  These are good places to get IF interpreters, IF games, information and reviews about games in the genre, and, in some cases, lively discussions about the current state of IF and directions it can be taken.  Check them out, and let me know if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auto-Tune the News</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/09/04/auto-tune-the-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/?p=827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve laughed this hard in a long time.  If you&#8217;re not familiar with Auto-Tune, it&#8217;s a real-time voice modulation technology that can correct the pitch of pretty much anything from the spoken voice to musical instruments.  It&#8217;s used in all music, but is particularly prominent in modern rap and R&#38;B.  Certain artists, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C# vs. C++ &#8212; Swimming With the Current</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/08/14/c-vs-c-swimming-with-the-current/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[C++/C#/SQL/Web Programming]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/?p=707</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I just posted on the glories of smart pointers in C++.  I love C++ like a brother, and I have many C++ friends, but this article does a great job of illustrating, with wit and great examples, one of the most important truths about programming that I think I can pass on, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Link:  IFDB</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/07/27/cool-link-ifdb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/?p=562</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are interested in interactive fiction, the IFDB is an invaluable resource to help you find good games.  With the wide variety in genres and quality available in interactive fiction, having a central clearinghouse to hold reviews and ratings of the various offerings is very valuable.  And although there are a couple of other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Plugin &#8212; WP-Syntax</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/07/11/cool-plugin-wp-syntax/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/07/11/cool-plugin-wp-syntax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/?p=436</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope to eventually have some more programming-related updates here; I&#8217;m working on a solution at work to add compile-time type-safety to Windows message passing that will make a good article (or two) when I&#8217;m done. In the meantime, I have my IFComp updates, although vacation and the sheer number of other projects I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greedy Goblin is Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/06/27/greedy-goblin-is-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/06/27/greedy-goblin-is-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/?p=306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve promoted Greedy Goblin and his website in the past due to the very interesting economic analyses he&#8217;s put out, mostly stemming from his skill in making valid and insightful analogies between real world economics and the simplified economic model in the game of World of Warcraft.  Unfortunately, I think he&#8217;s been way off recently.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Link:  Ironic Sans</title>
		<link>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/06/21/cool-link-ironic-sans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.wigdahl.net/quern/2009/06/21/cool-link-ironic-sans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Wigdahl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across Ironic Sans the other day and was immediately impressed.  The link I followed was for a wall of outlets, which was impressive enough, but the rest of the site also seems to be a real fund of intriguing and amusing ideas from the fertile brain of David Friedman, a photographer in his [...]]]></description>
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