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		<title>The Typical John.</title>
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I&#8217;ve been meaning for awhile to write about this study (PDF), conducted by Eaves (a London-based charity for vulnerable women) and reported on in the Guardian, about the motives behind men who frequent prostitutes.  The group interviewed a hundred and three men between the ages of 18-70.  They enticed the men to come in for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitfulmurmurs.com/2010/03/09/the-typical-john/</link>
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		<title>Beer Blogging: Rogue Dead Guy Ale / Dogfish Head Midas Touch.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m removing the time expectation from the title of this series.  Considering my last &#8220;Beer of the Week&#8221; was on January 24th, penning another one was becoming more of a farce as time went on.  So from now on, this series will strike unpredictably (but, I hope, regularly).  But as a bonus, I&#8217;m writing up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitfulmurmurs.com/2010/03/02/beer-blogging-rogue-dead-guy-ale-dogfish-head-midas-touch/</link>
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		<title>The Uncertain Motivations of ChatRoulette Exhibitionists.</title>
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ChatRoulette, if you haven&#8217;t heard, is the newest mainstream outlet for people seeking to indulge their desire to be disgusted by their fellow man (or, somewhat less frequently, woman).  The concept is simple: it starts a videochat between you and a random stranger, and when one or the other of you disconnects, it finds you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitfulmurmurs.com/2010/02/25/the-uncertain-motivations-of-chatroulette-exhibitionists/</link>
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		<title>Flickr&#8217;s Astounding Evolution.</title>
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Since the establishment of the Flickr Commons two years ago, remarkably little attention has been paid to it &#8211; which is odd, given its extraordinary breadth and significance.  In January 2008, Flickr announced that the Library of Congress would put 3,500 pictures online without copyright or restriction, and invited other institutions to do the same.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitfulmurmurs.com/2010/02/24/flickrs-astounding-historical-resources/</link>
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		<title>Emotionalism.</title>
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I&#8217;ve been listening to The Avett Brothers compulsively for the last month or so, and in that time I&#8217;ve been trying to figure out what it is about their music that appeals to me so.  They&#8217;re talented but not extraordinary instrumentalists.  They sing reasonably well.  As lyricists they hew more to direct-but-plain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitfulmurmurs.com/2010/02/22/emotionalism/</link>
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		<title>Younger Men and Older Women.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most surprisingly absorbing blogs out there is OkTrends, the official blog of the dating site OkCupid, which is apparently run by a bunch of math geeks.  They spend what must be a jaw-dropping amount of time mining their databases for answers to questions like where do people shower the least (hello, Oregon!), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitfulmurmurs.com/2010/02/18/younger-men-and-older-women/</link>
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		<title>Buzz Buzz.</title>
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The big news this week is, of course, the rollout of Google Buzz &#8211; the not-quite-Twitter, not-quite-Facebook tool that Google hopes will replace both.  This isn&#8217;t an area in which Google has had a great deal of success &#8211; Orkut, their only other social-networking service, has caught on in India and Brazil but virtually nowhere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitfulmurmurs.com/2010/02/12/buzz-buzz/</link>
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		<title>On Neanderthals, and Good Taste.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon this article in Archaeology magazine about the ethics and science of cloning a Neanderthal, and at first I dismissed the idea &#8211; both because it&#8217;s not going to happen, and because it&#8217;s a terrible idea.  I&#8217;m not even sure quite what the point would be. True, we do have lots of questions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitfulmurmurs.com/2010/02/12/on-neanderthals-and-good-taste/</link>
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		<title>More On Per-Capita Energy Use.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the comments to my post about energy use by country, my dad wrote:
Never would have thought that Qatar would lead the pack. Now I would like to see energy per capita for renewable and non-renewable sources.
And I thought, that would be really interesting!  The closest I was able to find was this graph of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitfulmurmurs.com/2010/02/08/more-on-per-capita-energy-use/</link>
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		<title>Me and You and A Bottle Of Cough Syrup.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like most American indie-rock fans, my knowledge of &#8220;Buckie&#8221; was derived entirely from Ted Leo&#8217;s song &#8220;A Bottle of Buckie&#8221;, and was limited to knowing that a) it&#8217;s some kind of Scottish drink and b) it sounds like a romantic thing to look back having drunk with your significant other.

I was surprised, then, to stumble [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fitfulmurmurs.com/2010/02/08/me-and-you-and-a-bottle-of-cough-syrup/</link>
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