RSS feeds were originally used to point to content on websites, and did not carry anything more than a title or brief introduction to the content. It was natural to assume that syndication of feeds--republishing of them by third parties--was allowed and even desired, because it drove traffic to the publisher's website. But the way...
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(Apologies to Edgar Allen Poe)

I

Tear the envelopes, read the bills-

Stupid bills!

What a world of melancholy their advent instills!

Oh they stink, stink, stink,

In my icy grip of fright!

While the stars revolve, I think,

How the hell I'll eat and drink

With my bank balance so light;

They are slime,...
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Troubled mind

Axe to grind

Future defined

National pain

Hopeful refrain

Ethnic distain

Aryan mythology

Synaptic topology

Goodbye doxology

Political games

Global flames

Faceless names

If you've ever scooped cold, hard ice cream with a regular spoon, you're probably familiar with the potential for bending the spoon. Today's blog entry is a public service announcement to help the ice cream eaters of the world avoid this problem.

When scooping ice cream with a regular spoon, you can either let the...
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One man's junk

Is another man's treasure.

I've laid out my junk,

So, what's your pleasure?

I've got CDs

And videos.

You've got a new baby?

I've got baby clothes.

Here are some parts

From old computers,

And books on tape

For you commuters.

How 'bout a loveseat,

Or a kitchen chair?

A waffle iron,...
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A private invitation

From someone I don't know

Arrived in my in box today

I didn't read it though.

Cuz I was busy checking out

Hot tips on penny stocks

I'd gotten from three strangers

Opportunity knocks!

I thought I'd spend the riches

That would soon come rolling in

On a logo for my company,...
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Looking after number one--

The more I work, the more gets done.

...the more I do, the more he asks--

I'll add it to my list of tasks.

My list consists of four main parts:

With urgent tasks is where it starts--

Important first, and then less so.

Below is where non-urgents go.

Non-urgent, but...
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Advertising doesn't lie! Or at least when a company advertises their own products' weaknesses, you can believe they're at least as bad as they say they are. So I guess Toyotas must be busted.

The ad I'm referring to is the one where they brag that they have nine models that get better than 30...
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There once was a man named Antone,

Who, to write poems, was known.

Subscribe to my feed,

To my poems read,

And please keep it down when you groan.

Okay, so the first poem in Poeticalizationism doesn't live up to the subtitle: "Do you believe in living beautifully?" My intention is to post new poems...
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Today, a Comcast broadband customer tried to sign up on one of my websites. After they submitted the registration form, our system sent them an email, but it appears that Comcast's spam filter misidentified and blocked it. The customer emailed me, and I got their account activated. I'd guess that we've lost a number of...
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