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		<title>The Power of the Brain: Man Re-Creates Rome After Seeing it Once</title>
		<link>http://adrianmott.com/2009/06/11/the-power-of-the-brain-man-re-creates-rome-after-seeing-it-once/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Mott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Wiltshire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This blew my socks off earlier today (thanks to @guykawasaki for the link): This guy is autistic and is nicknamed &#8216;The Living Camera&#8217;.  What he can do is simple incredible &#8211; here&#8217;s a quick description of the video and then you should just watch it for yourself:
Stephen Wiltshire has been called the &#8220;Human Camera.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Weekend for Awesome Talks from TED</title>
		<link>http://adrianmott.com/2009/05/15/a-weekend-for-awesome-talks-from-ted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 05:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Mott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[TED Talks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m headed to the Bay Area this weekend to see Aimee&#8217;s family and have a little engagement party shindig, so I thought I&#8217;d  share a few of the excellent talks from the TED conference that I consider inspiring and if nothing else, totally interesting.  The first one is the famous Malcolm Gladwell &#8217;spaghetti [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nurturing Creativity in Education</title>
		<link>http://adrianmott.com/2009/04/28/nurturing-creativity-in-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Mott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[schools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I first wanted to wish my sister Elise a happy birthday today, and as I think about her and the rest of my family, I realize that the family that helped raise me (my 2 sisters), as well as my new fiancee Aimee are all teachers.  Teaching and education is certainly something that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are We Seeing the Beginning of Economic Recovery?</title>
		<link>http://adrianmott.com/2009/03/19/are-we-seeing-the-beginning-of-economic-recovery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Mott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ecomomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology Industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So between Unbiasd and NYTExplorer, I tend to consume a lot of news in a given day.  Both this week and last, I&#8217;ve been surprised and downright excited to see certain signs that we are indeed on the road to recovery, and the dire economic downturn isn&#8217;t going to hold us down forever.  To be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Culture of Free Products and Content is a Losing Strategy</title>
		<link>http://adrianmott.com/2009/03/11/angry-rant-a-culture-of-free-products-and-content-is-a-losing-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Mott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web 2.0]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is free, Twitter is free, Wordpress is free.  Doesn&#8217;t this bother anyone else?  Instead of charging their customers a nominal dollar or two or five to use these services on a monthly basis, VC&#8217;s flood them with investment money that, psychologically, lets these guys &#8220;worry about the business plan later.&#8221; Doesn&#8217;t THIS [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking a Peek into the World of Robotics</title>
		<link>http://adrianmott.com/2009/03/08/taking-a-peek-into-the-world-of-robotics/</link>
		<comments>http://adrianmott.com/2009/03/08/taking-a-peek-into-the-world-of-robotics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Mott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robotics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[robots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been interested in robotic technology since college, when a class with Professor Vaughn taught me some of the basics of what is possible using sensors and software to enable machinery to act on its own.  I was blown away to see how far some of this robotic technology has come since then &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Going to War with the Yanks&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://adrianmott.com/2009/02/19/going-to-war-with-the-yanks/</link>
		<comments>http://adrianmott.com/2009/02/19/going-to-war-with-the-yanks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Mott</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[american attitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american military attitude]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[canadian american troops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canadian soldier]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Canadian soldier writes about his experiences over a few tours of duty in Afghanistan and the experience of working with troops from many different countries.  He goes on to give a great review of the way American troops handle themselves, which is certainly nice to hear.  But enough from me, here&#8217;s the article:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/02/17/f-vp-storring.html
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		<title>Some Pics of the California Wildfires</title>
		<link>http://adrianmott.com/2008/11/19/some-pice-of-the-california-wildfires/</link>
		<comments>http://adrianmott.com/2008/11/19/some-pice-of-the-california-wildfires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Mott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Getty Images and the AP &#8211; posted on the Big Picture blog:






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		<title>One Big ASS Boat</title>
		<link>http://adrianmott.com/2008/09/30/one-big-ass-boat/</link>
		<comments>http://adrianmott.com/2008/09/30/one-big-ass-boat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Mott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to my friend Sumanth for the hit on this post and the &#8220;Berderp&#8221; blog for the post.
This boat is nuts &#8211; the &#8220;Maltese Falcon&#8221; I guess it&#8217;s called.  Owned by Tom Perkins (Hewlett-Packard, Kleiner, Perkins fame), the boat is 289 feet and absolutely dwrafs other boats around it easily measuring 40-50 feet.  Under sail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data, Worldview and&#8230;Progress! &#8211; They&#8217;re connected!</title>
		<link>http://adrianmott.com/2008/09/25/data-worldview-andprogress-theyre-connected/</link>
		<comments>http://adrianmott.com/2008/09/25/data-worldview-andprogress-theyre-connected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adrian Mott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin writes in his blog a very interesting article that revolves around the way that people make decisions and form opinions.  He states that people make decisions by processing the data that they have at hand, combined with their existing worldview on things.  He continues by stating that if people make bad decisions, it [...]]]></description>
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