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	<title>David Ernst chats with the World</title>
	<link>http://davidernst.net/blog</link>
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		<title>News Futures</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I finally found an online computer game that suits my personality: NewsFutures.

NewsFutures is just one of many Prediction Markets available online.  They come in a variety of flavors, focusing more on sports, Hollywood gossip, financial news, etc.  I&#8217;m curious about The Popular Science Predictions Exchange, where you can examine the likelihood of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2007/12/10/news-futures/</link>
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		<title>Radiohead followup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got curious about how the whole Radiohead thing had played out when I heard mention of it on NPR&#8217;s Morning Edition this morning.   Turns out the band is not presently releasing statistics about it.  An independent market research company called comScore, though, released this report on how the downloads have played [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2007/12/03/radiohead-followup/</link>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s your candidate?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One organization&#8217;s interview to find out who you should vote for&#8230;

These things are always fun, right?  And especially when we&#8217;ve got this many candidates they can actually be useful, because we don&#8217;t always know that much about the different candidates.

According to the quiz, I should be excited about Chris Dodd, who I must admit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2007/11/30/whos-your-candidate/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I heard Robert Kuttner interviewed on Fresh Air today, promoting his new book The Squandering of America.  Just hearing the title already had me incredulous, and now I&#8217;m thinking it&#8217;s finally time that I follow suit to Kynthia&#8217;s outing of herself and myself as being more libertarian than most of our close friends, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2007/11/13/125/</link>
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		<title>Automated Phone Call From The Cops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, is this the new thing?  Yes, I guess it is, the thing they call  reverse 911. Now I get it.

10:55pm: the phone rings.  I figured only a close friend would call so late, I answer:

&#8220;This is  the Bloomington Police Department&#8221;

WOAH!  Well, they weren&#8217;t after me for any reason, it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2007/11/09/automated-phone-call-from-the-cops/</link>
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		<title>Uninspiring voting day II: return of the yawn!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I had to follow up from my post back in May  about the very uninteresting primary ballot.  Well, today was the general election, and &#8230; well, like most sequels, it wasn&#8217;t as impressive as the original, but definitely a variation on the same theme.

In May there were literally no contested elections on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2007/11/06/uninspiring-voting-day-ii-return-of-the-yawn/</link>
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		<title>Go, Radiohead!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of you will know I&#8217;m not just saying &#8220;I thought of it first&#8221; when I say that I&#8217;ve long thought that a gratuity-based system could be the answer to the woes of the music industry in the era of digital music (the rest of you will just have to take my word for it&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2007/10/01/go-radiohead/</link>
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		<title>A Scattered-David Index..?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always feel bad complaining about feeling busy when much of what&#8217;s making me busy is fun.  So, I won&#8217;t complain, but I have been busy for the past month and a half or more.  From doing a lot of coordination of the Sugar Hill contradance weekend to attending two separate weddings on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2007/09/30/a-scattered-david-index/</link>
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		<title>The passing of a tree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, it took a couple of weeks of waiting, but this morning the people are here to remove this tree.  My parents discovered that it was dead when they were here at the beginning of August.  When the guy came to give an estimate, he immediately identified the type of tree, said that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2007/08/22/the-passing-of-a-tree/</link>
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		<title>Walking beats standing still</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WFIU Produces a somewhat silly radio short called A Moment of Science.  Silly though it may be, they&#8217;ve had quite a few shows that gave me a valuable bit of scientific knowledge.  And a couple of times they&#8217;ve offered expert concurrence with theories that I&#8217;ve developed on my own.  Last year they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2007/08/16/walking-beats-standing-still/</link>
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