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	<title>Sometimes I hate the world.      Sometimes I love humanity.</title>
	<link>http://waaronw.com/blog</link>
	<description>Rants, ramblings and insights from someone fed up with FAKE</description>
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		<title>Meta-Nixie Clock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently caught Matt Mets&#8217; post on hacking a digital photo frame into a clock by generating a static image for each minute of the day, and then automating the action of advancing the image once per minute. This allows for any number of interesting clocks to be made with suggestions ranging from a written-word [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waaronw.com/blog/projects/meta-nixie-clock/</link>
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		<title>lolshield hacking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Jimmie Rodgers, maker extraordinaire has come up with a great new shield for the Arduino which he is calling the LoLshield for &#8220;lots of leds&#8221;. It&#8217;s a charliplexed array of 126 LEDs in a 9&#215;14 grid that pops right onto an arduino. Neat!
A problem with charliplexing is brightness. Since you have to turn each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waaronw.com/blog/projects/lolshield-hacking/</link>
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		<title>Searching for Space (for your hackerspace)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A long list of things to think about when looking for a physical location for your hackerspace or maker community.]]></description>
		<link>http://waaronw.com/blog/observations/searching-for-space-for-your-hackerspace/</link>
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		<title>Do you really need a space?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Emily Daniels, David Nunez and I decided that it was Time To Do Something. We were all struggling with some personal creative projects, and felt that we needed a community of people around us who were making interesting things. With the right kind of people gathered, a lot of magic can happen. We were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waaronw.com/blog/praise/do-you-really-need-a-space/</link>
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		<title>Making money (on twitter, without a record label, with fans)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[These days, I am a total fanboy of Amanda Fucking Palmer. (Please check her and her music out if you do not know her and The Dresden Dolls) As with more and more artists, AFP is dissatisfied with her relationship with her music label, Roadrunner Records. While the restrictions on her expression may be the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waaronw.com/blog/observations/making-money-on-twitter-without-a-record-label-with-fans/</link>
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		<title>New project released: iSrch Rndmzr 3000!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finally finished the photography for my project, &#8220;iSrch Rndmzr 3000! by Subverted Industries&#8221;. The &#8220;project&#8221; really consists both of a device I fabricated (from an Arduino, display, and salvaged enclosure) and the corresponding web site. I&#8217;ll let you visit the site for details. My comments on the project can be found under the &#8220;about&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waaronw.com/blog/me/new-project-released-isrch-rndmzr-3000/</link>
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		<title>Bizarre.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on a plane. The guy in front of me just reached over and grabbed the back of his chair, stretching. I wanted to lick his hand. Just to see what he would do. I would deny it, of course, because that would make for a more interesting exchange. 
Is that wrong?
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		<link>http://waaronw.com/blog/uncategorized/bizarre/</link>
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		<title>Trademarks gone to far!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that you cannot use the word &#8220;apple&#8221; in a Google ad for any reason? Even if you are advertising products made from or with the actual fruit? Did you know you cannot use the word &#8220;philosophy&#8221; either? (that&#8217;s the one I got dinged on) In fact, here are a few more common, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waaronw.com/blog/annoyances/trademarks-gone-to-far/</link>
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		<title>Give me less privileged accounts!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Software agents are just going to keep getting more and more prevalent in our society - whether they take the form of Dashboard widgets, iPhone applications, or even web site aggregators, they are here to stay. More sites need to start offering data access in a way that enables this functionality without compromising the security of their site or their users.]]></description>
		<link>http://waaronw.com/blog/annoyances/give-me-less-privileged-accounts/</link>
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		<title>Tool Fetishist vs. Producer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For years I have been a tool fetishist. (Not really the proper use of that word, maybe a tool-o-phile?) I have been wrapped up in tools, process, and how-to for so long, that I haven&#8217;t really been a producer. I think it&#8217;s something I learned from my dad, but it&#8217;s something that I share with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://waaronw.com/blog/observations/tool-fetishist-vs-producer/</link>
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