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		<title>Budget Day: Tax Relief on Reacharounds? Free ads! Sell that unwanted Rusty Trombone on the Hearing Trumpet</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tremendously bad confluence of events has occurred this morning. My meeting was cancelled, I got about nine hours&#8217; sleep, it&#8217;s budget day, and I&#8217;ve been watching X-Ray Spex videos online, and that&#8217;s feeding the Wednesday rambunction. Atop all this, Bendunne.com has decided to offer its ads FOR FREE until the 18th of December which, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ittybittyhearingtrumpet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6920642&amp;post=265&amp;subd=ittybittyhearingtrumpet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Great Variety of Bizarre Visual Phenomena&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People of earth! We&#8217;ve received communication from Dublin spiritual healer Joe Coleman, who has himself been notified that Herself has been talking about a short break in the Wesht this coming Saturday. Before you split your guts open jostling each other to get a good view of the heavens above, listen up. Look directly at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ittybittyhearingtrumpet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6920642&amp;post=253&amp;subd=ittybittyhearingtrumpet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;They&#8217;re weak, they&#8217;re fat, they can&#8217;t run very fast, and they can&#8217;t fly.&#8221;*</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So it can be said of turkeys as of humans. But there&#8217;s something wrong with the food chain, and with the Darwinian theory of the survival of the fittest when you take into account that, contrary to popular belief, turkeys do not drown in the rain. No, animals are generally rather used to climatic phenomena. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ittybittyhearingtrumpet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6920642&amp;post=248&amp;subd=ittybittyhearingtrumpet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does My Country Look Fat In This? More Cartograms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you played with that cartogram site I posted earlier but don&#8217;t like things that are that awesome, then here is this way more detailed, but only ever-so-slightly-less-awesome site called Worldmapper, a collaborative human cartography project mainly based in the University of Sheffield. If you haven&#8217;t seen a cartogram, it&#8217;s a little bit like reading [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ittybittyhearingtrumpet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6920642&amp;post=239&amp;subd=ittybittyhearingtrumpet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cartography Roundup: Warrugs, Cartograms, Oddball Maps</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that the best-ever cartographic representation of a land mass was done by the Irish School of Motoring, whose &#8220;Bear driving a car&#8221; is the nation&#8217;s greatest achievement since Mollycule Theory came out of Flann O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s pickled brain-pan. But since I had a shitty day, I figured I should share with you what I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ittybittyhearingtrumpet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6920642&amp;post=233&amp;subd=ittybittyhearingtrumpet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Ireland: I&#8217;m coming back for what&#8217;s mine. Signed, Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are so many ways to disown financial responsibility, but the government, councils, the planners &#8211; they can&#8217;t disown the effects of these floods. No, they don&#8217;t control the weather, but any idiot who has seen a contour map &#8211; or a 19th-century Ordnance Survey map, where places that flood are generally marked floods &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ittybittyhearingtrumpet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6920642&amp;post=225&amp;subd=ittybittyhearingtrumpet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Picture it: Sicily, Nineteen-Dickety-Two&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, November 27th is the Story Corps National Day of Listening. Story Corps is one of the best things on earth, and if I had my way, I&#8217;d run my own Story Corps van in Ireland, and I&#8217;d (get someone more fearless than I to) drive around the country and be the rag and bone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ittybittyhearingtrumpet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6920642&amp;post=220&amp;subd=ittybittyhearingtrumpet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clock Sparrer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What time is it? Is it 4:07 or &#8216;just after four&#8217;? Now there&#8217;s a clock that tells you the time the way you might tell it to someone else. Cut out the middleman. It frees up entire milliseconds of your time and whatever is smaller than kilobytes in your brain to devote to looking at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ittybittyhearingtrumpet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6920642&amp;post=215&amp;subd=ittybittyhearingtrumpet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Crayon Village: I Want To Go To There</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a piece about this in the Utne Reader, just as I was about to not renew my subscription, and now I am rethinking it. This new issue blew my tiny mind, and I was going to cut back on magazines, I swear, but now the world is conspiring to keep me from giving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ittybittyhearingtrumpet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6920642&amp;post=211&amp;subd=ittybittyhearingtrumpet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye New England&#8217;s Monstah Huntah</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People often make noncommittal awkward comments about my accents, like &#8220;It&#8217;s very soft,&#8221; and I&#8217;m not sure what that even means, only that I don&#8217;t take offence because none seems to be meant, and that my &#8216;real&#8217; accent is not at all soft. When I rang Dublin-home from Boston-home last year, I heard the sound [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ittybittyhearingtrumpet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6920642&amp;post=209&amp;subd=ittybittyhearingtrumpet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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