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		<title>Bonk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See the rest of this year&#8217;s listings &#8226; What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
№51
Title: Bonk [$]
Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Year: 2008
Pages: 288
I picked up Bonk entirely on a whim:  it was sitting precociously on the shelf of new books at the library.  It wasn&#8217;t until later, when I was reading that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Me Of Little Faith</title>
		<link>http://heliologue.com/2008/07/09/me-of-little-faith/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See the rest of this year&#8217;s listings &#8226; What is 52 Books in 52 Weeks?
№50
Title: Me Of Little Faith [$]
Author: Lewis Black
Publisher: Riverhead
Year: 2008
Pages: 256
I like Lewis Black&#8217;s standup, and I like him on The Daily Show;  I was less than impressed, however, by his sort-of-biography, Nothing&#8217;s Sacred.  Lewis qua storyteller with occasional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Gun Seller</title>
		<link>http://heliologue.com/2008/07/07/the-gun-seller/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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№49
Title: The Gun Seller [$]
Author: Hugh Laurie
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Year: 1998
Pages: 368
For many people, House might be their first exposure to British actor Hugh Laurie;  others, especially if you live on the Isles or have a particular affection for British [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ten-Cent Plague</title>
		<link>http://heliologue.com/2008/07/03/the-ten-cent-plague/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
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№48
Title: The Ten-Cent Plague [$]
Author: David Hadju
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Year: 2008
Pages: 448
I was always around comics growing up; with the exception of the 6-part Double Dragon series, however, I was never really a collector myself.  I spent a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Synesthesia</title>
		<link>http://heliologue.com/2008/06/25/synesthesia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pursuant to my discussion of synesthesia, I decided on a lark to tabulate my color mappings.  The first is for days of the week;  the second is for letters of the alphabet.  I don&#8217;t have number-color associations.


My day-color synesthetic mapping



				Day of the Week
			

				Color (desc)
			





				Sunday
			

				red-orange
			



				Monday
			

				orange-yellow
			



				Tuesday
			

				deep green
			



				Wednesday
			

				red
			



				Thursday
			

				mint green
			



				Friday
			

				purple
			



				Saturday
			

				blue
			




My grapheme-color synesthetic mapping



				Letter
			

				Color (desc)
			





				A
			

				red
			



				B
			

				dirty yellow
			



				C
			

				ash grey
			



				D
			

				deep [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musicophilia</title>
		<link>http://heliologue.com/2008/06/24/musicophilia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
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№47
Title: Musicophilia: Stories of Music and the Brain [$]
Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Knopf
Year: 2007
Pages: 400
I have read Oliver Sacks before.  The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat was a fascinating book, but it could get a bit dry at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Desktop Linux revisited</title>
		<link>http://heliologue.com/2008/06/20/desktop-linux-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 21:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
About 2 years ago I wrote a piece called Five things that Desktop Linux really needs, attempting to air out my five biggest grievances with Desktop Linux.  If you follow FOSS news, every year is heralded as &#8220;The Year of the Linux Desktop,&#8221; although such a thing clearly hasn&#8217;t happened yet.  Now, two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Napoleon&#8217;s Buttons</title>
		<link>http://heliologue.com/2008/06/18/napoleons-buttons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
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№46
Title: Napoleon&#8217;s Buttons [$]
Author: Penny Le Couteur, Jay Burreson
Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher
Year: 2004
Pages: 384
I happened upon Napoleon&#8217;s Button entirely by accident when I was looking for cover art for His Excellency: George Washington;   was so intrigued by the premise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Night of the Avenging Blowfish</title>
		<link>http://heliologue.com/2008/06/16/night-of-the-avenging-blowfish-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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№45
Title: Night of the Avenging Blowfish [$]
Author: John Welter
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Year: 1994
Pages: 304
I&#8217;ve read this one before, and yet a couple of weeks ago I got an inexplicable urge to read it again.

I&#8217;m not aware of Welter writing anything after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blockquote metadata extractor 1.2</title>
		<link>http://heliologue.com/2008/06/16/blockquote-metadata-extractor-12/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My little blockquote title&#124;cite extractor for jQuery has been updated just slightly when it appeared to have funny results.  It may have to do with the element.attr() changes introduced in jQuery 1.2.6.
It&#8217;s not a particularly disastrous bug or anything, but I&#8217;ve altered the code to check string lengths instead of looking checking for null.
Get [...]]]></description>
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