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		<title>Being a Better Tweeter</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 21:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been using Twitter continually for about three years now. I&#8217;m not sure of the exact date, or my first tweet, because Twitter still hasn&#8217;t given me the option to download my entire archive yet, though every time I check, the &#8220;Deactivate my account&#8221; option stares back at me from the bottom of the  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/being-a-better-tweeter-26283644/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Gadget Inside Me</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 19:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not entirely human. All of the parts of a human being are inside me, but I have a few extra bits as well, not so much floating around as firmly secured in place. In some spots, these nonhuman bits hold me together. In other spots&#8230; well, that&#8217;s a different story. I have a  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/the-gadget-inside-me-12281663/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Should I Stick In My Finger?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2013 20:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s probably too late now, but for the last week there may have been an unusual window of opportunity in which I could have embedded something cool into the tip of my finger. I lost it recently. The tip, that is. Of my finger. It happened in a freak office chair incident at a posh  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/what-should-i-stick-in-my-finger-05280621/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why you&#8217;re wrong about the PS4 launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The PS4 launch was a huge success. Forget what you&#8217;ve heard. You&#8217;ve probably read on tech blogs that it was too long. They showed too many demos. Worst of all, they never showed the actual PlayStation hardware. How could they have a PlayStation launch without showing the hardware? If a PlayStation launches in the woods  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/why-youre-wrong-about-the-ps4-launch-23270807/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Amid Instagram Madness, What Terms of Use Should Take for Granted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In all the hubbub around the new Instagram Terms of Service, there is one refrain that keeps repeating. It’s one I’ve heard plenty of times before, and it’s the reason I was hesitant to even tackle this issue. I see plenty of pundits saying that I must be an idiot if I did not read  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/what-terms-of-use-should-take-for-granted-19261616/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 20:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a strange time of year to be of my ilk in America. The houses are mostly decked with lights, although I live in that rare North Texas neighborhood of refreshing ethnic diversity where the smells of wonderful cooking waft through the air to mark myriad holidays that our Christian brethren don’t celebrate. The trees  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/you-better-watch-out-you-better-not-google-16260966/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Paradoxical Power of the Tiny Tweet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How did Twitter suddenly become the most powerful force for consumer advocacy? I can’t complain, because I’ve reaped the benefits, but it is fascinating that this tiny service, minute in so many ways, offers so much power to the individual user. It’s become easy, almost second nature, to wield this power over the mightiest of  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/the-paradoxical-power-of-the-tiny-tweet-12260550/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fixing the Deadliest Gadget</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can’t believe I’m going to do this. I’m going to defend the right to own guns. You see, I’m a liberal. I’m more liberal than you are. I don’t care how liberal you think you are, I’m more liberal than you. But I also pride myself on my ability to change my mind with  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/fixing-the-deadliest-gadget-26243933/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Whining and Subscribe to HBO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the show Game of Thrones on HBO. The show is fantastic. It’s one of the best shows to come along in a while. It’s exciting, sexy, complicated, and it has just a touch of fantasy thrown in, mainly to keep you guessing about the possibilities of what’s to come. In the first episodes  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/stop-whining-and-subscribe-to-hbo-04241693/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Grammar Police, Arrest This Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an alternate universe somewhere in which I am a lexicographer. I write dictionaries for a living. This is not the pipe dream of a grammar-obsessed former English teacher. Right out of grad school (Master’s in English), I turned down an opportunity to work for the Oxford English Dictionary. The job was for a  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/grammar-police-arrest-this-man-30240859/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Shoot Your Food</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 21:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop taking pictures of your food. You’re a lousy photographer, and I’m tired of looking at your photos. They are disgusting. While you may be excited about the delicious / unique / unfathomably fattening food you are about to consume, that does not mean you need to mark the occasion with an Instagram or Twitter  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/dont-shoot-your-food-22239697/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Movie Is Over When The Credits Roll</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now, I’m mad. At first, it was funny. I definitely didn’t stay to the very end of the movie when I saw “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” in the theaters, but when I saw the movie at home, I saw the bonus scene at the end. The “stinger,” as it’s sometimes called. Roger Ebert called this  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/the-movie-is-over-when-the-credits-roll-18239236/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Photo Posting Social Skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People aren’t likely to tell you how bad your photos are, or how much your photo stream is boring them to tears. So I’m here to help. Not to help you, to help them, by teaching you which pictures you should not post. Following is a list of my absolute least favorite photos to see.  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/learning-photo-posting-social-skills-16238752/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Spoiler Alert!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 20:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of the movie “The Grey,” everyone dies. Liam Neeson dies. That totally awesome moment in the trailer where he breaks some mini-bar bottles and tapes them to his fists, ready to do battle with the Alpha wolf? Two seconds later the credits roll, and the implication is clearly that he went down  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/spoiler-alert-15238630/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Diablo III is the Worst Game Ever Made</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have played Diablo III for dozens of hours. I have beaten the normal difficulty level with one of my “Heroes,” and I have made solid progress with a variety of characters representing each class. I came to the new sequel already a fan. I played through and beat Diablo II perhaps a dozen times,  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/diablo-iii-is-the-worst-game-ever-made-09237780/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Favorite Music Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2012 21:47:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have tried them all. I have been using Pandora since the early days, and I pay for the premium Pandora service. I tried, for at least a month each and often more, all of the old guard of the streaming music services. Rhapsody. Napster. Slacker Radio. I owned a Zune HD, and subscribed to  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/my-favorite-music-service-07237548/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reunions in the Time of Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2012 21:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my Facebook friends recently posted about her 20-year high school reunion. We went to the same high school, and she was a year ahead of me. I have perhaps a dozen other Facebook friends from my high school who were all in that same graduating class, but she was the only one who  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/reunions-in-the-time-of-facebook-04237146/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Will Google Glass Help Us Remember Too Well?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Google sent BASE jumpers hurtling from a blimp as part of the first day Google I/O Keynote presentation, I was barely impressed. The jumpers were demonstrating the Project Glass wearable computer that Google is developing, and which I and just about all of my friends are lusting over. I had seen plenty of skydivers  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/will-google-glass-help-us-remember-too-well-30236576/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Quitting the Internet is Silly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 19:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Miller, a writer for the Web site The Verge, has famously quit the Internet. For a year. I say famously, because every writer from The Verge that I follow is completely obsessed with this topic. While this is a site that normally operates like a Band of Brothers and Sisters on social networks, the  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/quitting-the-internet-is-silly-05226371/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Friends Don&#8217;t Let Friends Look Ugly On Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I joined Facebook, I have excised exactly 2 photos from my timeline at the request of my friends. The first was a photo of a friend who is now an up and coming actor. He&#8217;s doing great work on the big screen, both here in the U.S. and in southeast Asia, and his popularity  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/friends-dont-let-friends-look-ugly-on-facebook-29225183/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Simplest Things Are Not The Cheapest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My parents bought my toddler a kid’s tablet as a Hanukkah gift. I had been checking out the VTech Innotab and Leap Frog Leapster tabs as options for him. They bought him the Innotab, with an accompanying, rugged digital camera built for kids. The Innotab is a tough little device, with rubber bumpers all around.  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/the-simplest-things-are-not-the-cheapest-22224060/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Keep the Discs in my Xbox and PlayStation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prognostication on the next generation of consoles has begun. Like Federal elections, it probably began the minute the last generation hit the market. No sooner does the Playstation 3 hit the market than spectators start wondering about the PlayStation 4. Did they expect Sony or Microsoft to roll over and play dead? Well, in  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/keep-the-discs-in-my-xbox-and-playstation-02221019/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Social Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I should have known something was wrong when I sat down at the table. My interviewer was well dressed. She wore a neat pants suit and her hair was pulled back in a somewhat severe bun. But the questions she asked seemed out of place for the setting. She started by picking up my resume  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/the-social-interview-31220818/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>I Cheat at Foursquare</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Philip Berne, and I cheat at Foursquare. I’m unrepentant and I have no remorse for my behavior. I will not stop, even now that my secret is out. What are you going to do about it? I check into places I have not been. Sometimes, those places are far away from where  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/i-cheat-at-foursquare-25219923/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sqoot and Skedaddle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is a rule to being offensive, it’s this: you can say whatever you like, as long as it’s funny. That’s true on stage, on the Web, and in person. I’ve been friends with some truly offensive people. They have said horrible things to me, things that echo the bullies and tormentors of middle  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/sqoot-and-skedaddle-23219768/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Smell of Gaming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking my dog the other night, a breeze wafted in over the ploughed field next to my apartment building, and a scent in the air brought me back to my elementary school cafeteria. It wasn&#8217;t the pizza. It wasn&#8217;t the milk served in sealed plastic bags. It was just a general smell. The cleaning solutions.  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/the-smell-of-gaming-15213659/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Much Ado About Booth Babes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you look up the term &#8220;objectification of women&#8221; in your college dictionary, you&#8217;ll probably see a definition illustrated by a photograph of a tall, slender, blond woman wearing skimpy shorts and a tight t-shirt, standing next to a table stacked with plastic cell phone carrying cases. Recently, there&#8217;s been a lot of hubbub over  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/much-ado-about-booth-babes-24210520/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem With Tech and Teaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you a funny story about technology in the classroom. I was teaching English at a charter school in Boston a few years ago, and my classes were working on &#8220;Macbeth.&#8221; I&#8217;m always looking for new angles of attack, especially with Shakespeare, so I decided to focus on different interpretations and stagings of  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/the-problem-with-tech-and-teaching-20210226/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem With Pink Gadgets: Not Enough Of Them</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son&#8217;s favorite color is pink. It&#8217;s not even close. He&#8217;s three years old. Whenever he is offered anything, he wants it in pink. He&#8217;s always loved the color. His favorite lovey is pink. His favorite toy cars are pink. When we drive through at Starbucks, he always wants a cake pop, and the only  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/the-problem-with-pink-gadgets-not-enough-of-them-08207181/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Whining and Go To Las Vegas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 23:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen the video of kids complaining about their Christmas presents? I won&#8217;t go into much detail, because SlashGear&#8217;s own Chris Burns covers this succinctly. But the gist is that it&#8217;s a video of entitled kids complaining about the gifts they did not get. My favorites are the ones (plural) where kids complain &#8220;Sure,  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/stop-whining-and-go-to-las-vegas-06206897/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Whining and Turn Off Your Phone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned when I was a camp counselor that you should always support the person up front. When they say something wrong, let it slide and fix it later. When they suggest something unpopular, go with it, and if it proves unsuccessful, it&#8217;s no big deal. I never had a camp director suggest we run  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/stop-whining-and-turn-off-your-phone-03205646/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Meta-Tech Resolutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a year since I issued my &#8220;Anti-Tech Resolutions,&#8221; and now it&#8217;s time for a new batch. But this won&#8217;t be the same Anti-Tech spiel that I ran last year. I learned a lot from those resolutions, both the ones I kept and decided to abandon. But I learned more about how to keep  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/new-years-meta-tech-resolutions-01205123/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Upgrade My Parents</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/time-to-upgrade-my-parents-30205120/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mom . . . Dad . . . we need to talk. And by &#8220;we,&#8221; I mean I&#8217;m going to talk, and you&#8217;re just going to agree with everything I say and follow my advice forevermore. And by &#8220;talk&#8221; I mean I&#8217;m going to write a public column on SlashGear, and hopefully you won&#8217;t really  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/time-to-upgrade-my-parents-30205120/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Negative Correlation Between Fun and Facebook</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/a-negative-correlation-between-fun-and-facebook-17203069/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a friend who is not on Facebook, and never has been. One friend. Let&#8217;s call him Marley, like the puppy (don&#8217;t spoil the ending, I&#8217;m still reading). He didn&#8217;t leave Facebook. He&#8217;s never been a member. He knows about it. All of his friends are on Facebook. Marley&#8217;s wife is on Facebook, and  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/a-negative-correlation-between-fun-and-facebook-17203069/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Is A Twitter Follower Worth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 19:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A technology Web site, PhoneDog.com, and one of its former chief editors, Noah Kravitz, are embroiled in a legal battle that could have fascinating repercussions for social networks. Kravitz is suing PhoneDog over contractual issues, but it&#8217;s the counter-suit that really has my attention. PhoneDog is suing Kravitz over the use of his Twitter handle.  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/how-much-is-a-twitter-follower-worth-13194950/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>How We Can Get Along, Even Though You&#8217;re Wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to imagine how we can all get along. Whether in the tech world, in the political arena, in love, and in the clash of different cultures. It&#8217;s hard, because you are so wrong. You are so very wrong. I know what I&#8217;m talking about. I used your device for years, and now I  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/how-we-can-get-along-even-though-youre-wrong-02192528/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>To Snark, or Not to Snark</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to be the kind of guy who would yell at customer service representatives on the phone. I would call up my bank, or my airline, and scream at the person on the other end as if it were his fault that I had accidentally paid my electric bill too early, thus insuring the  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/to-snark-or-not-to-snark-28174682/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Rick Perry and the Pork Chop Twitter Block</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Down here in Texas, we invented the State Fair. That may not technically be true, but everything you know and love to hate about state fairs, we invented. The Corny Dog came from Texas (and yes, you&#8217;ve been spelling it wrong all this time). Put a stick in a hotdog, dip it in batter and  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/rick-perry-and-the-pork-chop-twitter-block-21173129/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Anything Really Necessary?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Necessary. It&#8217;s like a dirty word. A curse, or at least it was at my house. Activities were defined on a scale of how &#8220;necessary&#8221; they were. Snagging a couple Tagalongs before dinner. Is that necessary? Want to drive 20 miles to visit my girlfriend on a school night. Is it necessary to see her  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/is-anything-really-necessary-14171386/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Subjectivity of Natural Scrolling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip Berne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple released its new OS X Lion for Mac computers recently, and there was one controversial change that had the technorati chatting nonstop. In the new Lion OS, Apple changed the direction of scrolling. I use a MacBook Pro (among other machines, I&#8217;m OS agnostic). On my MacBook, I scroll by placing two fingers on  <p><a href="http://www.slashgear.com/the-subjectivity-of-natural-scrolling-05169915/" class="more-link">Read The Full Story</a>]]></description>
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