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		<title>Office Phone Prank #19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reminded today of an office telephone prank I used to play when I worked for the corporate arm of a noted Australian university. It was a simple enough jape, but always good for a giggle on a slow afternoon.]]></description>
		<link>http://flamingmongrel.net/?p=204</link>
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		<title>Twimericks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It started here: Well now. That&#8217;s a cry for help that cannot go unanswered. And so dear friends I give you: The Twimerick. As far as I have been able to discern from my extensive research1, while the word twimerick is in popular use, it&#8217;s most commonly applied to a combination of tongue twister and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://flamingmongrel.net/?p=184</link>
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		<title>I was wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It can happen with song lyrics and quotes, be they popular or obscure. It may be the mis-heard name of somebody you met last week or an old wives' tale which years ago took erroneous root in your mental filing cabinet of Things That Are Correct&#8482;. ]]></description>
		<link>http://flamingmongrel.net/?p=165</link>
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		<title>Euphemism Generator</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A quick spot of fun whipped up over the weekend, the euphemism generator was a tiny project mainly intended as an excuse to fiddle around with JQuery &#8211; something I should have done a long time ago. The result is pretty basic, but it&#8217;s amusing enough (at least to me) to warrant it&#8217;s own little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://flamingmongrel.net/?p=149</link>
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		<title>Waiter, there&#8217;s a soup in my iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But my enthusiasm for Melbourne restaurant <i>Pearl</i> dropped several notches last week when I read that proprietor Chris Lucas intends to supplement printed menus with Apple's new plaything, the iPad.]]></description>
		<link>http://flamingmongrel.net/?p=138</link>
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		<title>Hype</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Branden Hall and Joshua Davis have created Hype, an ActionScript libary which greatly simplifies the task of programming and combining complex visual effects and behaviors.]]></description>
		<link>http://flamingmongrel.net/?p=124</link>
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		<title>Modern Ideas Are Bullshit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a nutshell, the crowdsourcing premise is simple. Publishers ask audience for content. Audience supplies content to publishers. Publishers publish audience-supplied content back to same audience. Audience consumes content supplied by self and repackaged with adbanners by publisher. Copywriters go back to waiting tables, where they belong.]]></description>
		<link>http://flamingmongrel.net/?p=86</link>
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		<title>Stay out of my phone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr, Mrs and Ms Marketer, listen up.  Let me tell you now, plainly and simply: If you ever ring my phone, or send me an SMS, with any kind of sales message, you and I will never do business. Ever.]]></description>
		<link>http://flamingmongrel.net/?p=77</link>
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		<title>Talkin&#8217; about Shoes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For reasons both complex and stupid, I recently composed a few paragraphs for the ever charming legal-eagle @gabfran on the subject of footwear. Check it out at http://lawandshoes.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/guest-shoe-blog-post-by-gilfer-the-wedding-shoes/. My humble thanks also to the anonymous twitter friend who found some very kind words to say about me by way of an introduction. You know who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://flamingmongrel.net/?p=75</link>
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		<title>Flash CS5 Will Be Able to Create iPhone Apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8217;nuff said, really. With Flash CS5, ActionScript programmers will be able to create native iPhone applications and sell them on Apple iStore. I got chills.]]></description>
		<link>http://flamingmongrel.net/?p=66</link>
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