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		<title>Spark: Rindercella and the Pransome Hince</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/21/spark-rindercella-and-the-pransome-hince/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a kid, we had the story of Rindercella taped to our refrigerator. I loved reading it. I grew up in a family where the dominant form of humor was puns, including Spoonerisms. While I was first discovering teh Intarwebs, I looked for Rindercella, a candidate for being somewhere online if ever there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women in the Workplace</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/07/women-in-the-workplace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 2009 and I&#8217;ve been seeing more discussions of women and work than usual. Perhaps it&#8217;s just that I unplugged from my feminist news sites in the last few months of &#8217;08. As a woman who will eventually go back to work, and if it&#8217;s at a law firm, certainly hopes that she&#8217;ll at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Are you really an atheist?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/29/are-you-really-an-atheist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[said the friend sitting next to me at Christmas Eve dinner, with a vague look of disgust on her face, like I&#8217;d just admitted to enjoying self-flagellation. I was in the company of a number of people who had escaped Western religion (all some form of Christianity) and landed firmly in Eastern religion (all some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Captain&#8217;s Blog, Stardate 3.14159265</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/21/captains-blog-stardate-314159265/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, Avery Brooks (who will forever be Cmdr. Sisko to me) did a truly awesome commercial for IBM, one that still prompts me to occasionally exclaim, &#8220;I was promised flying cars!&#8221; The point was that, when people look into the future, they see today&#8217;s technology modified for the future, not the invention of whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Masquerade</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/31/the-masquerade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving past the high school today, I saw a number of costumed people. Even at the law school, there are plenty of people dressed up. Halloween is the day that this society acknowledges that mask. We all wear different masks throughout the day, throughout the year (the corporate yes-person, the dutiful child, the loving spouse). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fair Use, the Internet, and some Funny</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/30/fair-use-the-internet-and-some-funny/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 02:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Synchronized debating. This is exactly why the internet is so important. Why fair use is not just some abstraction but something that affects each of our lives. And, it&#8217;s funny. So learn more about both candidates and a little something about the wonders of the internet: Get the latest news satire and funny videos at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you could be anything you wanted&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/23/if-you-could-be-anything-you-wanted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more popular genre of games right about now is a cross between full RPG and general story game. The most highly anticipated was Fable, where you start out as a young boy and grow into a hero&#8230;or a villain. And this was the major selling point: a slightly more sophisticated Choose Your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Does Religion Empower Women?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/23/spark-does-religion-empower-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/23/spark-does-religion-empower-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WaPo&#8217;s On Faith asks its panelists Does religion empower women? This is one of the few On Faiths that I&#8217;ll probably read each response to. I&#8217;m looking forward to the Christian/Catholic answer, which I&#8217;ve found generally centers around &#8220;having kids is empowering!!1!&#8221; There is some wonderful evidence for non-child-based empowerment which I&#8217;ve yet to hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Dark about AFTERdark</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/21/in-the-dark-about-afterdark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, we&#8217;ve got these posters up all over campus for an &#8220;event&#8221; tonight called &#8220;AFTERdark&#8221; and it&#8217;s pissing me off because I think this is a microcosm of the general bait-and-switch of religion. The campus event of the year AFTERdark the compelling drama of Joe White &#8220;a top 10 influencer of the century&#8221; -New Man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Monday: Still Alive</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/13/music-monday-still-alive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve held off for as long as I could bear to, but it is now time to release this upon the MoF community. From the guy who brought us the classic office zombie song, Re: Your Brains and the classy May Day song, First of May, comes the geek classic Still Alive, the end-credits song [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dualism: Revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/08/dualism-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While reading chandelle&#8217;s recent post and the comments that followed, I had occasion to think about my dualism, which I&#8217;ve discussed at length before. Many of the comments discuss the &#8220;spectrum of sexuality&#8221;, how there may be some people who are completely heterosexual or completely homosexual, but that most people likely fall somewhere in between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bit Lit Crit</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/05/bit-lit-crit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That would be &#8220;Bitchy Literary Criticism&#8221;. John &#038; I were having a conversation about good books and the concept of &#8220;strong female characters&#8221;, as a reason I might want to explore the Sabriel series. My response was that I had been recommended Miyazaki&#8217;s manga/movies for the same reason, that the author writes &#8220;strong female characters&#8221;, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Pulpit Initiative—or, should churches maintain their tax exempt status?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/29/the-pulpit-initiative%e2%80%94or-should-churches-maintain-their-tax-exempt-status/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/29/the-pulpit-initiative%e2%80%94or-should-churches-maintain-their-tax-exempt-status/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Freedom Sunday has come and gone. I didn&#8217;t hear anything on the news this morning about whether or not major changes are in the works, but I&#8217;d like to hear from the MoF crowd about this. Should churches be tax exempt or free to use their spiritual influence to exert political influence (and pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microfinance: Food for Thought</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/18/microfinance-food-for-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/18/microfinance-food-for-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/18/microfinance-food-for-thought/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Microfinance is the lending and borrowing of (relatively) small amounts of money. Generally, the lender is a (relatively) rich Westerner and the borrower a poor citizen of a developing country. And I don&#8217;t mean relatively poor; I mean abject poverty, where $25 to buy a goat means the difference between being able to feed your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>on Living Abroad</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/18/on-living-abroad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/18/on-living-abroad/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always said that a few years abroad should be required for Americans. But recently, I&#8217;ve been meeting people who&#8217;ve spent those few years abroad but who remain remarkably closed-minded, and provincial. Maybe it&#8217;s mitigated by the years abroad, maybe the years abroad did nothing and they would have ended up this way anyway, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theocracy</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/17/theocracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[*desperately trying to avoid typing &#8220;theoCRAZY!&#8221;* I missed this discussion at school, but have been seeing flyers for a forum on asylum law that state: HOW IMPORTANT IS YOUR FREEDOM OF RELIGION? [...] Come hear [asylum professionals] discuss asylum law and practice. In particular, they will discuss the plight of Christian converts in Iran and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Gendered Robots</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/21/spark-gendered-robots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/21/spark-gendered-robots/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t yet seen WALL•E, but here is an article I found interesting discussing the genders of the two main robots. It is an interesting discussion of the perceived genders we apply to the characters based on our cultural assumptions. It is also interesting, however, how we can work beyond them. hat tip]]></description>
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		<title>the Myth of &#8220;Third Party&#8221; Votes</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/28/the-myth-of-third-party-votes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/28/the-myth-of-third-party-votes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a voting member of a &#8220;third&#8221; party, I am often annoyed by the assumptions of non-third party voters. First, I&#8217;d like to take issue with &#8220;third&#8221;. In general, yes, this is a two-party system. But &#8220;Green&#8221; is not synonymous with &#8220;Third&#8221;. Especially since there are some really whacked-out &#8220;thirds&#8221; that deserve to be called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pragmatism v. Idealism</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/24/pragmatism-v-idealism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/24/pragmatism-v-idealism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/24/pragmatism-v-idealism/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We make sense of the world and our relation to it through the stories we tell.  Back in my young and wild Mormon days (riding bikes with the gang down the street of Japan, doing drive by conversions), I told the story of Joseph Smith to anyone who would listen.  The cool thing was that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile Social Foundation</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/18/mobile-social-foundation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/18/mobile-social-foundation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/18/mobile-social-foundation/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my sisters (#4) has been known to wax poetic about the fact that, in this current day and age, people are obsessed with themselves. Hence, &#8220;i-&#8221; products (iPod, iLife, iBrator, iWannaCookie, &#038;c.). When I heard about Apple&#8217;s migration of .Mac to MobileMe, I couldn&#8217;t conceive of telling her (myname@me.com just sounds so pretentious). [...]]]></description>
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