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	<title>Synthesis Magazine Blog &#187; Technology</title>
	<link>http://blog.synthesis.net</link>
	<description>A music blog with a techy twist, twisted content, and other entertainment oddities viral and live from Northern California.</description>
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		<title>Does Peak Oil Explain the Fermi Paradox?</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/05/08/does-peak-oil-explain-the-fermi-paradox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 20:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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The Fermi Paradox is defined as the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence for, or contact with, such civilizations. In other words, in a universe as big, and as old as ours seems to be, the fact that we have yet to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flying Woman Just a Bunch of Balloons</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/05/07/flying-woman-just-a-bunch-of-balloons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 19:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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Remember that one time I posted a video of a flying humanoid figure that a &#8220;leading Mexican UFO researcher&#8221; had proclaimed to totally, unquestionably &#8220;real&#8221;? Well apparently, if you listen to the version of the video without the creepy X-Files music, you can hear a woman looking through binoculars tell the assembled crowd that it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GTA IV Makes A Killing</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/05/07/gta-iv-makes-a-killing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 17:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ms. Nickels</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been 5 days since GTA IV came out and Rockstar has already sold 6 million copies of the game, beating out Halo 3&#8217;s launch week. 4 million people bought it the day it came out, which happened to be the 16th anniversary of the LA Riots. The game has generated $390 million. Violent video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exceptional UFO Sighting</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/05/06/my-favorite-ufo-sighting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 19:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jacob</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
These are some of the sharpest UFO photos ever taken, from one of my particular favorites. The sighting, which occurred near Zdany, Poland in 2006, shut down two passing cars. The photographer did not seek fame and disregarded public attention. Read about the incident here.

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		<title>Cannibalism: The Early Years</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/05/02/cannibalism-the-early-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 23:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ms. Nickels</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Turns out, people ate other people back in the day!

Scientists from England, Australia, and Papua New Guinea say that cannibalism is the most likely explanation for their discovery that genes protecting against brain diseases that can be contracted by eating contaminated flesh have long been spread throughout the world.
A growing body of evidence, such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican UFO Might Be a Flying Woman</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/05/02/mexican-ufo-might-be-a-flying-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 19:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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A UFO spotted, and videotaped, above Mexico is according to investigators some sort of flying humanoid figure:

 The mysterious woman-like figure was caught on camera as it hovered above  mountains in Nuevo Leon city. UFO watchers said the figure appeared to be wearing a cape leading to claims  that it was a witch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Smiley Face Killers</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/30/the-smiley-face-killers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ms. Nickels</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sounds like a cool band name, huh? Wrong, the Smiley Face Killers don&#8217;t rock, they kill&#8230; promising young college men.
April 29, 2008 &#8212; Two ex-NYPD detectives doggedly probing the drowning of two New Yorkers believe they were murdered by a nationwide gang of psychopathic serial killers who have drowned 39 other young men.
Retired Detectives Kevin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>L.A. Riots and Grand Theft Auto 4</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/29/la-riots-and-grand-theft-auto-4/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/29/la-riots-and-grand-theft-auto-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ms. Nickels</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pour out some of your 40 ounce for the 16th anniversary of the L.A. Riots and drink up in celebration of the release of Grand Theft Auto 4. Coincidence? I think not.

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		<title>ProTools on the iPhone</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/28/protools-on-the-iphone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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A producer friend of mine just turned me onto to something he was justifiably excited about, a third-party application for the Apple iPhone that allows it to remotely control ProTools. This would allow someone to monitor their fader automation and any sort of other conceivable adjustments from outside the control room, or conceivably outside the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ultimate Geek Jeans</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/22/ultimate-geek-jeans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ms. Nickels</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Designed by Erik De Nijs, these jeans have a built in keyboard, back pocket for your mouse, speakers on the knees, and a joystick controller located just behind the front zipper. Um&#8230; cool? Well, I like the circuitry stitching&#8230;
  
click them thumbnails
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		<title>And The Blind Shall See: Bionic Eyes In Britain</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/22/and-the-blind-shall-see-bionic-eyes-in-britain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ For the first time in Britain two blind patients have been implanted with bionic eyes. The procedure was preformed at Moorfields Eye Hospital in central London last week and the two patients are said to be &#8220;doing well.&#8221;

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		<title>Kanzius&#8217; Machine</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/21/kanzius-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ms. Nickels</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone will turn this true story into a blockbuster movie:
Using his wife&#8217;s kitchen pots and pans Mr Kanzius, 63, built a machine to direct radio waves at tumours, heating and killing them without damaging the surrounding tissue - something that opens up the possibility of cancer treatment with few or no side effects.
Now two teams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Prophecy Didn&#8217;t Unfold On February 20th 2008.</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/21/the-prophecy-didnt-unfold-on-february-20th-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>na3s</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Damnit. That&#8217;s what you get for not fully fact checking and especially paying close attention to dates. The lunar eclipse and satellite shoot-down madness already happened. No nuclear holocaust (awwwwww.). This slip-up makes this post even funnier and probably more idiotic, and certainly puts distress on my non-existent blogging reputation. I guess I could change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Prophecy to Unfold on April 23rd 2008?</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/21/a-prophecy-to-unfold-on-april-23rd-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>na3s</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime in 2005 I made a journey to New Zealand. Most of the details of this trip are very irrelevant to the purpose of this post, so don&#8217;t mind as I skip to a certain story.
Me and a friend I was traveling with were hitch-hiking from Nelson Creek NZ (after visiting the Nelson Creek Skateboard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akon Ain&#8217;t Hard</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/17/akon-aint-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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R&#38;B star Akon has long claimed to have previously lived a life of crime as the self-proclaimed &#8220;ringleader of a notorious car theft operation,&#8221; among other criminal enterprises. After reportedly being ratted out by his underlings, Akon supposedly spent three years in prison, fighting larger inmates everyday, and penning his hit single &#8220;Locked Up&#8221; about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revenge Fantasies and The Princess Bride Game: &#8220;Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my favorite movie. Prepare to die.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/17/revenge-fantasies-and-the-princess-bride-game-hello-my-name-is-inigo-montoya-you-killed-my-favorite-movie-prepare-to-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Are you kidding? Fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Doesn&#8217;t sound too bad. I&#8217;ll try to stay awake.&#8221;
Admittedly, I too am a bit skeptical of the upcoming Princess Bride Game, which will launch as a downloadable animated game this summer. The following trailer isn&#8217;t necessarily assuaging my distrust. There are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blockbuster Makes Hostile Bid for Circuit City</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/15/blockbuster-makes-hostile-bid-for-circuit-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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In a move Blockbuster chief executive James Keyes called a &#8220;game-changing retail concept&#8221; that would &#8220;dramatically accelerate&#8221; the ailing movie rental chain&#8217;s morphing into a 21st Century multi-platform media dispensary, Blockbuster Inc. made a $1.35 billion cash offer in a hostile takeover bid for electonics retailer Circuit City yesterday, a move that was panned by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday! Leonardo da Vinci Turns 556 Years Old.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spencer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[But seriously Leo, not a day over 530&#8230;

Born April 15th, 1452 in theregion of Florence, Italy, Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, or Leo as his close friends called him, grew from the illegitimate son of a notary and a peasant into a legitimate baller. Apart from his famous paintings, he was the epitome of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE NEXT: Sexbots</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/15/the-next-sexbots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget flying cars, time travel, cures for cancer, energy conservation, Gb&#8217;s of info implanted in your brain, NOW IS THE TIME FOR SEXBOTS!!!!!!!1, says David N.L. Levy, author of Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relations.
Here&#8217;s some quotes:
“Love and sex with robots on a grand scale is inevitable.”
Hmm&#8230; why?&#8230;
“Love with robots will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buzznet Building An Empire: Aquires Idolator and Stereogum</title>
		<link>http://blog.synthesis.net/2008/04/14/buzznet-building-an-empire-aquires-idolator-and-stereogum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Taylor</dc:creator>
		
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Buzznet, the pop-culture based social media site partially owned by Universal Music, is currently winning at the internet, acquiring two of the internet&#8217;s most popular music websites, Idolator and Stereogum over the past couple of months:
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