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	<title>Academik</title>
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	<description>The well-lived life is not a spectator sport.</description>
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		<title>Rock the Stache-Bah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holy cow! This stache has inspired people to donate $634.47.¬† Thank you to everyone who has donated and your efforts have not gone unnoticed&#8230; I have continued to not shave in your honor. As you can see the little fern which started growing above my upper lip has now turned into a really nice Tom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.academik.org/2008/12/09/rock-the-stache-bah/</link>
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		<title>A Stache Is Worth A Thousand Words</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
For the next month, I endeavour to test my will, my physical prowess, and my endurance.¬† Forgoing the ease of training for a marathon [hats off to those who have], I am testing my follicular limits on all levels by growing a mustache for charity!
Rather than submit my body to a long, drawn out, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.academik.org/2008/11/15/a-stache-is-worth-a-thousand-words/</link>
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		<title>Obvious Realization</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I imagine within any life there&#8217;s a string of similar realizations happening for most of us.¬† For some, it happens early in life.¬† It took me 27 years to realize (or simply remember) that life isn&#8217;t what&#8217;s going to happen to me.My life is not what&#8217;s going to happen when I make more money, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.academik.org/2008/10/25/silly-realization/</link>
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		<title>iTunes 8 &#8211; more walls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just installed the Genius Sidebar on iTunes 8&#8230;. What a steaming load of crap.
Even more bloatware + an even harder sell to buy DRMd content from the iTunes Store.
You&#8217;re going to recommend other songs from the iTunes store that I can buy and not play anywhere else.¬† Thanks, but I&#8217;ll keep using eMusic and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.academik.org/2008/09/18/itunes-8-more-walls/</link>
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		<title>Sarah Palin launched as latest product</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading this article on CNN.com about how Senator Joe Biden is receiving less press coverage &#8211; even though he is (and perhaps because) the most easily accessible to reporters &#8211; reminded me of how we think about launching products that have a long way to go before they&#8217;re ready.¬† Here&#8217;s what I mean. . .
When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.academik.org/2008/09/13/sarah-palin-launched-as-latest-product/</link>
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		<title>September 11th Remembered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sept. 11, 2001 I was sitting in the smoking lounge of my small college in Switzerland.
50 of us crowded around the TV, watching the planes crash into the World Trade Center over and over again on TV as if it were the latest scene in a Die Hard movie.
To one side of me was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.academik.org/2008/09/12/229/</link>
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		<title>New iTunes Plug-in cleans my music collection!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listeners &#8211; I mentioned TuneUp on the podcast a while back and I wanted to let you know it&#8217;s finally out.
I&#8217;ve been helping the company for a little more than 6 months now and I&#8217;ve got to tell you that their iTunes plug-in is legen-and I hope you&#8217;re not lactose intolerant because the last half [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.academik.org/2008/08/21/new-itunes-plug-in-cleans-my-music-collection/</link>
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		<title>[Review Something New] The Morning Benders &#8211; Talking Through Tin Cans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I&#8217;m fortunate enough to have great friends in this fine city by the bay.¬† One of them happens to work here, another shoots photos like this, and Bryan, a past colleague, helps Puma throw killer parties in the city.¬† A few weeks back they did an in-store party with The Morning Benders.
I&#8217;m sure everyone comments [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.academik.org/2008/07/26/review-something-new-the-morning-benders-talking-through-tin-cans/</link>
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		<title>The Audiobus: One of those rare &#8216;life doesn&#8217;t get any better than this&#8217; moments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you get when you mix great music, a diverse and beautiful city, and some very creative people together with the support of City Sightseeing Tours? The Audiobus.
My good friend Justin Miller of Phonofly is plugged into the music scene and a very good judge of things and people (and if not, he&#8217;ll buy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.academik.org/2008/07/20/the-audiobus-one-of-those-rare-life-doesnt-get-any-better-than-this-moments/</link>
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		<title>Ben Sollee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It was the cat-poles around the lake at his grandfather‚Äôs farm that inspired Ben Sollee‚Äôs debut album Learning To Bend. The frailty of those awkward looking plants standing stoutly against winds that challenged even the strongest of nearby trees is an affecting metaphor for human struggle and perseverance. This idea is central to Learning To [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.academik.org/2008/07/20/ben-sollee/</link>
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