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	<description>Mai Tais and Blinky Lights, Ahoy!</description>
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		<title>Bike Directions on Google Maps</title>
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Hooray! Google Maps now tells you how to get to places by bike! 
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		<title>Banff Mountain Film Festival</title>
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This is going to be at the Palace of Fine Arts on Wednesday and Thursday.  It looks awesome. We should go!  
 Here&#8217;s a list of films that are playing (though I&#8217;m not sure which films are playing on which night).
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		<link>http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2010/03/08/banff-mountain-film-festival/</link>
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		<title>Denne&#8217;s Aliens</title>
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How adorable is this font?!  It&#8217;s designed by Denise Bentulan and you can download it for free over here.
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		<title>Replacing URLs with links&#8230; halp?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this crazy regex for matching URLs in python. Even though some very smart people went through the trouble of concocting that regex, I can&#8217;t seem to use for all test cases&#8230; hmm.
I&#8217;m trying to turn bare urls into links for our Twitter sidebar widget, and it almost works, except for the last crazy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2010/01/26/replacing-urls-with-links-halp/</link>
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		<title>Fever Ray WANTS YOUR BRAIN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Karin Dreijer Andersson made it on to Resident Advisor&#8217;s Top 100 albums of the &#8217;00s list twice, once for her solo album as Fever Ray and again for her collaboration with her brother as The Knife.
Here is an acceptance speech that Fever Ray gave at an awards show in Sweeden. It is one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signing Amazon Web Services API Requests in Python</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to ping the &#8220;Amazon Product Advertising API&#8221; which now requires an HMAC signature, and the pyAWS library doesn&#8217;t sign requests and is no longer maintained. Here is some Python code to create a signed request:

# pyAWS no longer works with the AWS signed request requirement
# Sign an AWS REST request using the method [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2010/01/24/signing-amazon-web-services-api-requests-in-python/</link>
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		<title>Fast manipulation of tar files using 7zip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[tar always reads every byte in an archive (never calles seek()) and is very slow when trying to extract a single file from a large archive.
One solution is to use 7z instead, which is found in the p7zip-full debian package. For some operations, 7z is three orders of magnitude faster than tar. Here are some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Belated Birthday!</title>
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		<link>http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2010/01/19/happy-belated-birthday/</link>
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		<title>The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of Mr. Tom Waits, the new Terry Gilliam film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus stars Tom Waits as THE DEVIL. It is playing at the Kabuki RIGHT NOW and all this week. When shall we go?

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		<link>http://www.tikirobot.net/wp/2010/01/10/the-imaginarium-of-dr-parnassus/</link>
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		<title>A ramp for Mom!</title>
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	A ramp for Mom!, originally uploaded by tiki.robot.


	-raj
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