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	<description>Wesley R. Elsberry's personal weblog, talking about falconry, science, antievolution, computation, and the broken body he lives in.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<itunes:summary>Wesley R. Elsberry's personal weblog, talking about falconry, science, antievolution, computation, and the broken body he lives in.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Freeze Me, Please! Another Bid Text (1)</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/07/03/freeze-me-please-another-bid-text-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austringer</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[antarctic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[penguins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve changed my bid text to tell an anecdote about penguins and the predatory skua.

I&#8217;m not just interested in falcons. I&#8217;ve done research on lekking greater prairie chickens. Diane and I were called upon to help researchers test captive-bred prairie chicken response to raptors. We observed the prairie chickens respond to a hawk flying over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Look at Law and Theory</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/07/03/another-look-at-law-and-theory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austringer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[terminology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://austringer.net/wp/?p=1592</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot of philosophical discussion about what, precisely, constitutes a law or a theory in scientific practice. There&#8217;s also a lot of usage of the terms that has come to us over several centuries of not-quite-consistent application of terms. 
What I&#8217;d like to offer here is not a scheme to try to make past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lawsuit Norm Coleman Can Look Back on Losing</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/30/a-lawsuit-norm-coleman-can-look-back-on-losing/</link>
		<comments>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/30/a-lawsuit-norm-coleman-can-look-back-on-losing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austringer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Law and Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[al franken]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[minnesota]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[norm coleman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Minneapolis-St.Paul Star-Tribune has the story. Norm Coleman&#8217;s lawsuit over the recount process in the Senate race with Al Franken was dismissed by Minnesota&#8217;s Supreme Court. Coleman finally took this as a sign that maybe it was time to concede, where any of the lower court rulings against his case had not.
The article mentions &#8220;gracious&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freeze Me, Please!</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/27/freeze-me-please/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austringer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wildlife]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Antarctica]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[contest]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Quark Expeditions has a contest going. They are making a promotion out of sending a blogger to Antarctica on an expedition next year, and have a voting system set up so that each blogger can have people vote for their bid to go on the trip.
I found out about the whole thing a bit late, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beaked Whale Stranding in the Azores</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/27/beaked-whale-stranding-in-the-azores/</link>
		<comments>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/27/beaked-whale-stranding-in-the-azores/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austringer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Acoustics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wildlife]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[beaked whales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This came across MARMAM just now.

Subject:   	[MARMAM] Six Beaked Whales stranded in Azores (URGENT)
From:   	&#8220;marc fernandez&#8221; 
Date:   	Sat, June 27, 2009 5:47 am

Dear Colleagues,

I want to report an unusual situation occurred during the last week and a
half in São Miguel island, Azores, and ask for help in order to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banner Change</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/25/banner-change/</link>
		<comments>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/25/banner-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austringer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Computation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://austringer.net/wp/?p=1632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I retired my banner that I put together in my hospital bed in 2004 and have set up a set of new banners that get picked randomly with page requests. The original aspect ratio was just too long at 8.84:1, so I shifted it to 8.84:2. 
GIMP provides a selection tool for a fixed aspect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video Workflow</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/08/video-workflow/</link>
		<comments>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/08/video-workflow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austringer</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[video editing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[workflow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://austringer.net/wp/?p=1614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, I vacuumed out my video editing desktop machine. It&#8217;s been a while since I used it, and it had collected its fair share of dust. 
The machine is based on an Asus P4B motherboard and 1.8GHz Intel P4 CPU. This was state-of-the-art when I built the system in 2002. It was built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Specified Complexity Relies Upon Implicit Design Conjectures</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/05/specified-complexity-relies-upon-implicit-design-conjectures/</link>
		<comments>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/05/specified-complexity-relies-upon-implicit-design-conjectures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austringer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Antievolution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[specified complexity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[William Demsbki]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://austringer.net/wp/?p=1606</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[William Dembski&#8217;s No Free Lunch contains the following passage:
The presumption here is that if a subject S can figure out an independently given pattern to which E conforms (i.e., a detachable rejection region of probability less than alpha that includes E), then so could someone else.  Indeed, the presumption is that someone else used [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comment Upon Lynch&#8217;s Roots of ID Post</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/04/comment-upon-lynchs-roots-of-id-post/</link>
		<comments>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/06/04/comment-upon-lynchs-roots-of-id-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:09:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austringer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Antievolution]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Discovery Institute]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[intelligent design creationism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Lynch has a post critical of the Discovery Institute&#8217;s self-serving obfuscation over the phrase &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; and its history. Lynch makes a great number of cogent criticisms, but it seems to me that the manner in which the conversation goes may still work to the DI&#8217;s benefit. I left the following comment there:

The issue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiller: 2 Degrees</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/05/31/tiller-2-degrees/</link>
		<comments>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2009/05/31/tiller-2-degrees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 23:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austringer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://austringer.net/wp/?p=1588</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[George Tiller, a physician who provided late-term abortions to women with high health risks, was fatally shot in his church. Obviously, the shooter has no acquaintance with the concept of sanctuary.
The famous Kevin Bacon site demonstrated that there are less than six degrees of separation between most people. That is, if you know someone who [...]]]></description>
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