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		<title>The Spoils of Suffrage</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2012/01/30/the-spoils-of-suffrage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was an undergraduate student, I was not yet a citizen, but I was blackmailed into registering for the Select Service, aka &#8220;The Draft&#8221;, in order to receive financial aid. This was a huge motivation for me to become a citizen. I wanted to have some say in the political process that might send [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter to NPR</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2011/12/11/open-letter-to-npr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 23:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just submitted this letter to the NPR ombudsman via their contact page. If it echoes how you feel, feel free to submit it as your own. Dear Ombudsman, Ever since Vivian Schiller and her CNN cronies took over the operation of NPR, the service has become an embarrassment. Accurate, comprehensive reporting has been supplanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Write Once, Run Everyhwere</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2011/10/23/write-once-run-everyhwere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 22:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple iOS, Mac OS X to be Merged into Single Platform: Analyst &#8211; International Business Times &#160; &#8220;Write once, run everywhere.&#8221; This was the motto of the Java programming language when it was first deployed by Sun Microsystems. (Along with Sun, Java was consumed by Oracle, and Oracle describes Java thus: &#8220;Write software on one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone 4S Rumors Validated</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2011/10/12/iphone-4s-rumors-validated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finally received the 1000 bonus rollover minutes that AT&#038;T had promised, and my suspicion was true. The minutes arrived two days after the iPhone 4S was announced, along with its availability on both Sprint and Verizon. Of course, Sprint will be offering a completely unlimited plan for only $10 more than the severely limited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generations</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2011/09/11/generations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last 90 minutes this woman had me alternately crying and laughing. Lessons in perseverance, persistence and love.]]></description>
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		<title>Being Green in Death</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2011/09/07/being-green-in-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BBC News &#8211; New body &#8216;liquefaction&#8217; unit unveiled in Florida funeral home A Scottish company has refined&#8211;revived, if we want to be sarcastic&#8211;an old method for disposing of corpses: dissolving them in caustic solution. Why? They claim that this method of disposing of the deceased has a smaller carbon footprint than the infernal flames of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding to the iPhone 5 Rumor Mill</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2011/08/30/adding-to-the-iphone-5-rumor-mill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cool]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[About an hour ago I received this text message from AT&#038;T. The iPhone 5 rumor mill is working at fever pitch, and the timing of this offer seems coincide ominously with the rumored release of the iPhone 5 in September. The nature of the offer seems to imply that the new iPhone plans will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rude iPhone</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2011/08/13/rude-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moments ago I was greeted by this screen when I unlocked my iPhone. Now, I had heard that Apple has been getting cocky as of late, but this is ridiculous! How would one go about blowing an iPhone anyway?]]></description>
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		<title>My Dinner with Bjorn Borg</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2011/08/01/my-dinner-with-bjorn-borg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 05:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The great Pete Ippel as Bjorn Borges. Who would have thought that of all the celebrities I could have run into this last Thursday night that I would have run into Bjorn Borg. The tennis great looks absolutely fabulous at 55. He is still spry, in fantastic spirits and astonishingly active intellectually. All of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dude Sings Country</title>
		<link>http://payam.minoofar.com/2011/06/25/the-dude-sings-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Bridges is cashing in on his fame by releasing an album, and he started promoting the album by anchoring the first night of music at the Santa Barbara Summer Solstice Fest. &#8220;Is that the dude?&#8221; was my reaction, and it must have been everyone else&#8217;s, too. He didn&#8217;t shy away from that expectation. He [...]]]></description>
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