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	<title>John Lindal's Blog</title>
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		<title>The Arrow of Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just read an article about the Arrow of Time.  The foundation of the author&#8217;s discussion was entropy and the observation that it always increases. From a macroscopic perspective, this is reasonable, but it seems to me that there is an even deeper argument.  If I understand the Free Will Theorem correctly (always [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jafl.my.speedingbits.com/blog/2010/03/02/the-arrow-of-time/</link>
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		<title>The Matrix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that people so dislike the sequels to The Matrix?  Is it just because they contained so much more dialogue?  Or is it that the battle against the system, so passionate in the first movie, was tempered by the realization that even resistance is just another cog in the system?
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		<link>http://jafl.my.speedingbits.com/blog/2010/02/13/the-matrix/</link>
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		<title>New MacBook Pro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my first blog post from my brand new, shiny unibody MacBook Pro.  I like the no-hook lid.  I love the trackpad without any buttons.  When I was born, the mouse had barely been invented, and now my daughter isn&#8217;t yet five years old, and she&#8217;s already growing up in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jafl.my.speedingbits.com/blog/2010/02/09/new-macbook-pro/</link>
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		<title>Lisp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While driving to work this morning, I finally separated out what has been bothering me about Lisp.  Functional programming proponents tend to make a big deal about avoiding side effects because it avoids long range coupling between functions and it makes list iteration trivially parallelizable.  This is good for program maintenance and effective [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jafl.my.speedingbits.com/blog/2010/01/21/lisp/</link>
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		<title>The Future of UI is not boring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scott Berkun&#8217;s tangent off John Gruber&#8217;s wistful piece about the Apple Newton is flat out wrong.  The future of UI is here already, and it is anything but boring.  10/GUI was announced several months ago, and SixthSense has been under development for a while.  Both have the potential to revolutionize how we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jafl.my.speedingbits.com/blog/2010/01/15/the-future-of-ui-is-not-boring/</link>
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		<title>Avatar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The game has changed.
I was very skeptical when I read that James Cameron was out to out-Lucas George Lucas.  I don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s possible, but only because every game changing quantum leap up has the same general effect of blowing the public&#8217;s collective mind.  But there is no question that Avatar has now [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jafl.my.speedingbits.com/blog/2010/01/13/avatar/</link>
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		<title>Humility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief because it was recommended to me by a retired pastor who is a friend of my wife.  Now I recommend it, too.  The science is clearly presented, and the arguments for the existence of God are worth considering.
When I went [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jafl.my.speedingbits.com/blog/2009/12/25/humility/</link>
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		<title>Chuck E. Cheese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We just escaped from the ear-splitting, crass, insult that is Chuck E. Cheese.  No offense to the parents who scheduled the birthday party there, but the place is intolerable.  While I carried my daughter to the car, she listed out everything she doesn&#8217;t want for her next birthday party:  no loud music, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jafl.my.speedingbits.com/blog/2009/12/06/chuck-e-cheese/</link>
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		<title>Time Trap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished Keith Laumer&#8217;s Time Trap, published by Baen Books.  I found it interesting that Laumer&#8217;s time trap worked exactly the same way as in Groundhog Day:  It reset every 24 hours, but you remembered everything from the previous cycles.  If you were hurt or killed, you woke up whole again [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jafl.my.speedingbits.com/blog/2009/12/05/time-trap/</link>
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		<title>New Furniture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My daughter&#8217;s new furniture arrived yesterday.  She has outgrown her toddler bed, and we found the perfect bedroom collection at easylife.  It was discontinued, so we got the floor model at 40% off.  Of course, that meant scratches, and after it was delivered, we discovered that the bottom of one of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jafl.my.speedingbits.com/blog/2009/12/03/new-furniture/</link>
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