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<body><outline text="&lt;a href= &quot;http://www.cubicgarden.com/blojsom/blog/cubicgarden/design/?permalink=Samsung-SSD-awesomeness.html&quot;&gt; Ian Forrester&lt;/a&gt; found an excellent video from Samsung that eschews advertising in favour of just being very nerdy." created="Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:58:25 GMT"/><outline text="So, yes, SXSW is on. And I'm not there. I'd like to be, but I'm too busy sleeping, eating, programming and writing essays about the fundamental nature of reality. I'm also not sure I have the energy to be around so many geeks and social media types. I mean, &lt;a href= &quot;http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2006/03/sxsw_how_to_fit.html&quot;&gt; seriously&lt;/a&gt;. I'm not sure why the organisers of SXSW haven't started crowd-sourcing that information. Just put up a wiki page called &quot;How To Be Cool At SXSW&quot; and let people go at it." created="Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:50:40 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://fberriman.com/2009/03/14/rewired-state/&quot;&gt;Frances Berriman&lt;/a&gt; has a list of the reasons why Wired State was awesome. I agree. The selectiveness of the event was important, I think, and part of the reason I wrote &lt;a href= &quot;http://tommorris.org/blog/2009/03/11#When:02:05:08&quot;&gt;In defense of modest elitism&lt;/a&gt;." created="Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:39:54 GMT"/><outline text="What's the best way to deal with the presence of the Westboro Baptist Church? &lt;a href= &quot;http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=9875&quot;&gt;Parade around&lt;/a&gt; in bathrobes, simulating anal sex to the tune of &quot;I'm Coming Out&quot; by Diana Ross and the Supremes. Other people's ignorance and Biblical-level stupidity is always a good reason to engage in &lt;em&gt;lulz&lt;/em&gt;." created="Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:33:22 GMT"/><outline text="To celebrate 20 years of the Web on Friday, &lt;a href= &quot;http://www.leirdal.net/blog/uploads/semanticcake2.jpg&quot;&gt;here is a Semantic Web Layer Cake made out of cake&lt;/a&gt;. Awesome or what?" created="Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:28:31 GMT"/><outline text="There's an &lt;a href= &quot;http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/04/hitchens200904&quot;&gt; excellent article on John Mortimer&lt;/a&gt; by Christopher Hitchens." created="Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:27:56 GMT"/><outline text="It looks like &lt;a href= &quot;http://simonwillison.net/2009/Mar/14/sxsw/&quot;&gt;&lt;abbr title= &quot;South By South West&quot;&gt;SXSW&lt;/abbr&gt; Interactive 2009 has been overrun by social media types&lt;/a&gt;. We need to formulate a strategy to save the world from social media parasites." created="Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:24:52 GMT"/>
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