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		<title>Finagle&#8217;s Law of Dynamic Negatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Finagle&#8217;s Law of Dynamic Negatives (also known as Finagle&#8217;s corollary to Murphy&#8217;s Law) is usually rendered:

Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment

One variant (known as O&#8217;Toole&#8217;s Corollary of Finagle&#8217;s Law) favored among hackers is a takeoff on the second law of thermodynamics (also known as entropy):


The perversity of the Universe tends towards [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pollyanna and the Road to Immortality</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Optimists live longer, healthier lives than pessimists, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a study that may give pessimists one more reason to grumble.&#8221; I told you so!
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5247NO20090305?rpc=59

It&#8217;s better to think positive and forget all the haters. They&#8217;ll all be dead soon anyway.
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		<title>&#8220;Who looks not with compassion sees not what the eyes of compassion see. &#8220;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a Tibetan saying. I thought it was doubly apt as the Dalai Lama is set to celebrate 50 years of exile from Tibet and the people of Tibet labor under oppressive restrictions on basic freedoms that we take for granted. But, I also  found other meanings to it; I am sure that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book of the Day</title>
		<link>http://lunasmom.com/archives/90</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 06:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently reading a book called &#8220;Cross-X: The Amazing True Story of How the Most Unlikely Team from the Most Unlikely of Places Overcame Staggering Obstacles at Home and at School to Challenge the Debate Community on Race, Power, and Education.&#8221; I kid you not, that is the name on the cover. Cross-X is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like a Frat House Beer Pong Tournament</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only there&#8217;s no beer, no ping pong, no passed out sorority chicks, and no fun. What do we have? A riot of vomit all over my fucking house.
AUGH!
All winter we&#8217;ve been assaulted by a myriad of stomach viruses; it has been a plague to which no one has been immune. Tonight, it started with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with Pollyanna anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pol·ly·an·na
n.   A person regarded as being foolishly or blindly optimistic.
[After the heroine of the novel Pollyanna, by Eleanor Hodgman Porter (1868-1920), American writer.]
In the novel, Pollyanna is the irrepressibly cheerful orphan who triumphs over adversity through the power of positive thinking. Her infectious optimism brings life to a beleaguered New England town and its inhabitants. [...]]]></description>
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