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		<title>Top Five Music Lists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Top Five Soundtracks: 5. Watchmen Score 4. Crash 3. My Girl 2. Twilight 1. Garden State Top Five Funeral Songs: 5. &#8220;Under The Bridge&#8221; by Red Hot Chili Peppers 4. &#8220;The Scientist&#8221; by Coldplay 3. &#8220;I Grieve&#8221; by Peter Gabriel 2. &#8220;With Or Without You&#8221; by U2 1. &#8220;Tears In Heaven&#8221; by Eric Clapton Top Five Album Art: 5. &#8220;Nevermind&#8221; by Nirvana (http://tinyurl.com/lh5uza) 4. &#8220;Dangerous&#8221; by Michael Jackson (http://tinyurl.com/ls6of7) 3. &#8220;Fleet Foxes&#8221; by Fleet Foxes (http://tinyurl.com/mjapxp) 2. &#8220;Ma Fluer&#8221; by The Cinematic Orchestra (http://tinyurl.com/m7tnqq) 1. &#8220;The Division Bell&#8221; by Pink Floyd (http://tinyurl.com/kjaey5) Top Five Songs You Secretly Love: 5. &#8220;Since You&#8217;ve Been Gone&#8221; by Kelly Clarkson 4. &#8220;What Took U So Long?&#8221; by Emma Bunton 3. &#8220;Pure Shores&#8221; by Allsaints 2. &#8220;What Goes Around&#8230;Comes Around&#8221; by Justin Timberlake 1. &#8220;I Kissed A Girl&#8221; by Katie Perry Top Five Break-Up Songs: 5. &#8220;Cry Me A River&#8221; by Justin Timberlake 4. &#8220;Walk Away&#8221; by Ben Harper 3. &#8220;You Oughta Know&#8221; by Alanis Morissette 2. &#8220;The Last Goodbye&#8221; by Jeff Buckley 1. &#8220;Go Your Own Way&#8221; Fleetwood Mac Top Five Love Songs: 5. &#8220;Kissing You&#8221; by Desiree 4. &#8220;Have I Told You Lately&#8221; by Van Morrison 3. &#8220;Songbird&#8221; by Fleetwood Mac 2. &#8220;At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s raining cats &amp; dogs!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been raining quite a lot in Sydney the last few weeks&#8230; some might say it&#8217;s been raining cats &#38; dogs&#8230; WHAT??? No wonder the English language is the hardest to learn, when we have phrases like that. What does it mean? Where does it come from? Has it actually ever happened (I highly doubt it)? Meaning: Raining very heavily. Origin This is an interesting phrase in that, although there&#8217;s no definitive origin, there is a likely derivation. Before we get to that, let&#8217;s get some of the fanciful proposed derivations out of the way. The phrase isn&#8217;t related to the well-known antipathy between dogs and cats, which is exemplified in the phrase &#8216;fight like cat and dog&#8217;. Nor is the phrase in any sense literal, i.e. it doesn&#8217;t record an incident where cats and dogs fell from the sky. Small creatures, of the size of frogs or fish, do occasionally get carried skywards in freak weather. Impromptu involuntary flight must also happen to dogs or cats from time to time, but there&#8217;s no record of groups of them being scooped up in that way and causing this phrase to be coined. Not that we need to study English meteorological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Write a Manifesto</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, we write a manifesto. Today, our second sentence starts with the first word of the first sentence. We write a short sentence. Then a shorter one. Then a really, really long one that maybe doesn’t make any sense but is immediately followed by One. Word. Sentences. Then we make our point even clearer By using fragmented prepositional phrases. By repeating that first preposition. By doing it a total of three times. And then we have another really long sentence that builds up excitement for our overarching concept that is summed up in a word that makes absolutely no sense. Kumquat.]]></description>
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		<title>Dog Sledding season &#8211; coming to a close (42 Photos)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The well-known Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, held in Alaska, welcomed it&#8217;s first native Alaskan champion since 1976. Begun in 1973, the grueling race &#8211; through blizzards, whiteout conditions, sub-zero temperatures, gale-force winds &#8211; covers 1,150 miles in nine to fifteen days from Willow to Nome, Alaska. There are many other sled dog races in locations around the world, including races in Norway, British Columbia, Slovakia, Spain, Czech Republic, Minsk, and through the Alps of France and Switzerland. The following images are a collection from those races. &#8212; Paula Nelson http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/03/dog_sledding_season_-_coming_t.html]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Stark &#8211; &#8220;Medicine Bow&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you consider yourself a fan of indie/folk music, I suggest you check out a young man by the name of Jonathan Stark. You can listen to his music here: http://jonathanstark.bandcamp.com/album/medicine-bow and I am sure you&#8217;ll be purchasing his album &#8220;Medicine Bow&#8221; not long after.]]></description>
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		<title>Why &#8220;Bee&#8217;s Knees&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over coffee this morning, a friend said &#8220;That&#8217;s the bees knees!&#8221;. Now, this is a common phrase, I even use it myself&#8230; but where does this term come from? Enter, Google: ? Meaning: Excellent &#8211; the highest quality. Origin: It&#8217;s difficult to know if we need an etymologist or an entomologist for this one. Bees carry pollen back to the hive in sacs on their legs. It is tempting to explain this phrase as alluding to the concentrated goodness to be found around a bee&#8217;s knee, but there&#8217;s no evidence to support this explanation. It is also sometimes said to be a corruption of &#8216;business&#8217;, but there&#8217;s no evidence to support that either. Nor is there any connection with another earlier phrase, &#8216;a bee&#8217;s knee&#8217;. In the 18th century this was used as a synonym for smallness, but has since disappeared from the language, replaced more recently by the less polite &#8216;gnat&#8217;s bollock&#8217;: Mrs. Townley Ward &#8211; Letters, June 1797 in N. &#38; Q. &#8220;It cannot be as big as a bee&#8217;s knee.&#8221; &#8216;Bee&#8217;s knees&#8217; began to be used in early 20th century America. Initially, it was just a nonsense expression that denoted something that didn&#8217;t have any meaningful existence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.artfulplayground.com/2011/03/why-bees-knees/</link>
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		<title>Phenomenon</title>
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		<title>Don Draper? Is that you?</title>
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		<title>Wazzzuuup!!</title>
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		<title>Target in sight</title>
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