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		<title>Burning Ships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Sometimes in life you have to burn your ships. I hope everyone finds someone worth burning their ships for.&#8221; &#8212; Philip Welch]]></description>
		<link>http://utools.ca/journal/2011/06/24/burning-ships/</link>
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		<title>It always seemed easier to feign apathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[except for the times when you know you really do care.]]></description>
		<link>http://utools.ca/journal/2011/06/24/it-always-seemed-easier-to-feign-apathy/</link>
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		<title>If you only knew the power of the dark slide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A&#160;dark slide&#160;from Polaroid-compatible instant film sold by&#160;The Impossible Project. The Impossible Project decided to use this otherwise-disposable cardboard card as a opportunity for creativity. In their words: Basically the darkslide is a purely technical necessity, protecting the film from light as long as it is outside the camera. Impossible is converting the darkslides in collector [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://utools.ca/journal/2011/03/04/if-you-only-knew-the-power-of-the-dark-slide/</link>
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		<title>sort &#8211;&#8211;debug is handy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coming soon to a coreutils near you (it&#8217;s in coreutils 8.6 and later, which will hopefully be picked up by major distros soon) &#8212; the sort --debug option. It places &#8220;underlines&#8221; under the portion of the key used to perform the sort, which is very helpful when you&#8217;re trying to figure out why sort is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://utools.ca/journal/2011/02/23/sort-debug-is-handy/</link>
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		<title>Macro Benchmarks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[US NGS benchmarks, from this publication. Posted via email from FORM PLUS FUNCTION]]></description>
		<link>http://utools.ca/journal/2011/02/18/macro-benchmarks/</link>
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		<title>Life imitates subway maps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A current sample of visualization of thesis data &#8212; in this case, the CIDR Report. Vertical position on the graph reflects ranking on the CIDR Report. Posted via email from FORM PLUS FUNCTION]]></description>
		<link>http://utools.ca/journal/2011/02/06/life-imitates-subway-maps/</link>
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		<title>Quick frequency tables in unix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this here and thought it should be recorded. If you have a single series of data (in my case, AS numbers) and you want a frequency count, how can you do that on the command line? ... pipe input here ... &#124; sort &#124; uniq -c &#124; sort -r -n This 1. sorts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://utools.ca/journal/2010/11/18/quick-frequency-tables-in-unix/</link>
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		<title>The Q says it all</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And it says Univers. As seen in Montréal. Posted via email from FORM PLUS FUNCTION]]></description>
		<link>http://utools.ca/journal/2010/08/03/the-q-says-it-all/</link>
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		<title>The unintentional beauty of making semiconductors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[via flickr.com At risk of the blog becoming stale already, I thought I&#8217;d fall back on some older material of mine. Back in the summer of 2007 I worked in a semiconductor research fab lab. Everything was pretty much focused on the engineering, and yet there were unintentionally beautiful things to be found here and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://utools.ca/journal/2010/05/27/the-unintentional-beauty-of-making-semiconductors/</link>
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		<title>Sharpie pokes fun at protestors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While perhaps not exactly traditionally form+function, I thought this ad was interesting. Perhaps a subtle joke from some conservative-leaning ad agency? I don&#39;t think the function of this scene is the type of self-expression that most protestors are interested in. Posted via email from FORM PLUS FUNCTION]]></description>
		<link>http://utools.ca/journal/2010/05/23/sharpie-pokes-fun-at-protestors/</link>
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