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	<description>Weird musings. Useful software. Geeking out.</description>
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		<title>Alan Turing: Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell Poster</title>
		<link>http://coffeeghost.net/2010/02/09/alan-turing-dont-ask-dont-tell-poster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AlSweigart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poster I made about British genius and World War II hero, Alan Turing. View poster.

The original source Photoshop file is available for download.
I&#8217;m releasing this poster and the source file under a Creative Commons &#8220;Attribution-Share Alike&#8221; 3.0 license, meaning you can copy it as much as you want, or make changes. (IANA graphic designer, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Let BASIC Die.</title>
		<link>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/12/22/just-let-basic-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AlSweigart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’d like to hear a boring but heart-warming story, ask a geek about how they learned programming. It’s like the opposite of trolling: you can instantly provoke tearfully-joyous nostalgia out of programmer strangers on the Internet by making this inquiry. Most of these stories will include some form of a programming language called BASIC, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Inserted Left Margin&#8221; Browser Bug in IE 6 and 7</title>
		<link>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/11/25/phantom-left-margin-browser-bug-in-ie-6-and-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AlSweigart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I found a weird IE 6 and IE 7 CSS bug a few weeks ago at work. I forget the exact way I found the solution (in other words, it was probably dumb luck), but I haven&#8217;t found it described anywhere else on the web. I call it the &#8220;inserted left margin&#8221; bug for lack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: &#8220;Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness&#8221; by Alva Noe</title>
		<link>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/11/11/book-review-out-of-our-heads-why-you-are-not-your-brain-and-other-lessons-from-the-biology-of-consciousness-by-alva-noe/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/11/11/book-review-out-of-our-heads-why-you-are-not-your-brain-and-other-lessons-from-the-biology-of-consciousness-by-alva-noe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AlSweigart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting, but ultimately disappointing and unconvincing. (2 out of 5 stars)

Noe avoids mystical explanations and the supernatural. He doesn&#8217;t put forth souls or the vague appeals to quantum mechanics that are the hallmarks of new age quackery. And while he skates close, he doesn&#8217;t present consciousness as just merely a postmodern social construction. “Out of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned from Writing a Technical Book to Teach Programming</title>
		<link>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/11/02/lessons-learned-from-writing-a-technical-book-to-teach-programming/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/11/02/lessons-learned-from-writing-a-technical-book-to-teach-programming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AlSweigart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From 2008 to 2009, I wrote a book called “Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python” ( http://inventwithpython.com ) which guides young adults and complete beginners through learning how to program in the Python language. I’ve just completed the second edition of the book, which has been an exhausting amount of work. Looking back over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Edition of &#8220;Invent with Python&#8221; is available!</title>
		<link>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/10/26/second-edition-of-invent-with-python-is-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AlSweigart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a lot of work, but the second edition of &#8220;Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python&#8221; is now ready. The book&#8217;s new website is http://inventwithpython.com
&#8220;Invent with Python&#8221; is a free book that teaches kids (and adults) how to make computer games in the Python language. It&#8217;s aimed at people who have had no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Ways to Say &#8220;Go to Hell&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/06/07/5-ways-to-say-go-to-hell/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/06/07/5-ways-to-say-go-to-hell/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AlSweigart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, I&#8217;m Al. I&#8217;m an atheist. I believe that God and gods are superstition and do not exist.
Fear is incredibly useful tool for persuading others to your views. It&#8217;s really convincing to tell a population of people that there is an imminent danger that is going to personally affect them, and that you alone have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grindstone Journal Interview</title>
		<link>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/03/09/grindstone-journal-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AlSweigart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an email interview with Grindstone Journal a couple weeks back. The interview material was used in the article &#8220;Atheists find challenges, notoriety and community on Youtube.&#8221;
Posted below is a transcript of the email interview in full:
Questions about YouTube
1. Why YouTube? What draws you to the vlog medium rather than other forms of communication?
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TraceyText &#8211; A Source Code Visualization Tool to Teach Programming</title>
		<link>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/03/04/traceytext/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/03/04/traceytext/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AlSweigart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Software]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TraceyText&#8217;s home page is http://traceytext.sourceforge.net
TraceyText is an HTML-based teaching tool for visualizing single-stepping through source code. TraceyText can also double as a text/HTML slideshow library implemented in JavaScript. With TraceyText&#8217;s features, you can create web pages with a text or HTML slideshow and TraceyText will minimize the file size. TraceyText can also combine multiple &#8220;views&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You Can Find Out My Identity, I&#8217;ll Donate $100 to the EFF</title>
		<link>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/02/11/if-you-can-find-out-my-identity-ill-donate-100-to-the-eff/</link>
		<comments>http://coffeeghost.net/2009/02/11/if-you-can-find-out-my-identity-ill-donate-100-to-the-eff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AlSweigart</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is playing off of this post on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/7u9mx/hey_reddit_think_its_easy_to_link_an_online/
The joke of course is that my name is plastered all over this website and the web in general. I was planning on donating to the EFF anyway (and, hey, so should you.) But it got me thinking about identity online.
Several months ago, I began using [...]]]></description>
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