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	<title>Ron&#039;s Home Page</title>
	<link>http://ozrock.net/ron</link>
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		<title>The end of Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For me, anyway. Facebook never really worked for me anyway; but on top of that, there are lots of serious privacy concerns &#8212; see, for example: Facebook gives your info to advertisers, gets caught in the act, promises to stop; EFF&#8217;s Bill of Privacy Rights for Social Network Users; MoveOn&#8217;s &#8220;Did you see what Facebook [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ozrock.net/ron/2010/05/31/the-end-of-facebook/</link>
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		<title>Anti-materialism in 4th-grade science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son Oz (in 4th grade) brought home some homework covering the study of matter in his 4th grade science lesson.  Here&#8217;s a couple of lines from the narrative page &#8220;explaining&#8221; atoms and matter:

And on the next page, they quizzed him, to make sure he&#8217;d accepted the anti-materialist dogma. 
When I asked Oz what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ozrock.net/ron/2010/04/12/anti-materialism-in-4th-grade-science/</link>
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		<title>Republicans are scary crazy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you think &#8216;Publicans are pretty normal, you might want to check out a really scary poll of self-identified Republicans here, commissioned by Daily Kos.  Here are some of the highlights:
Research 2000 for Daily Kos. 1/20-31. Self-identified Republicans. MoE 2%
Should Barack Obama be impeached, or not?
Yes 39%, No 32%, Not Sure 29%
Do you think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ozrock.net/ron/2010/02/04/republicans-are-scary-crazy/</link>
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		<title>Arg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just fixing this again (argh).  Bear with me.  Pictures are down, and other stuff.  Fixed this weekend.
Update: Mostly fixed now.  Some of the older images and links still down.  The new WordPress MU has been a bit persnickety. 
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		<link>http://ozrock.net/ron/2010/01/22/hello-world/</link>
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		<title>This year&#8217;s &#8220;Mindset List&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every fall, Beloit College makes up a &#8220;Mindset List&#8221; to reflect the world of the new incoming college students  (born in about 1991, this year) &#8212; what their life has included, and what it hasn&#8217;t.  Understandably, reading it makes those of us over, um, thirty feel old and alienated.  And who doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ozrock.net/ron/2009/08/18/this-years-mindset-list/</link>
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		<title>J.P. Patches and Archie McPhee</title>
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The coolest thing I brought home from Seattle? Clearly the JP Patches Bobblehead from Archie McPhee.
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		<link>http://ozrock.net/ron/2009/08/12/j-p-patches-and-archie-mcphee/</link>
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		<title>My dad and the electro-assist bicycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the 60&#8217;s and 70&#8217;s, my dad worked off and on on building one of these things in the garage; he called it the &#8220;Friction Compensator&#8221;. (eROCKIT electro-assist bicycle)

I&#8217;m not kidding.  He was an electrical engineer by education, and also converted a 1947 Crossley to electric power with a big rack of lead-acid batteries [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ozrock.net/ron/2009/07/30/my-dad-and-the-electro-assist-bicycle/</link>
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		<title>Live from CRUMBS Cafe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Check out the excellent new local music CD  Live from CRUMBS Cafe, a compilation of songs from the CRUMBS Cafe Radio Show spanning from 2007-2009.
Believe it or not, back in a past life, before the internets were converted to tubes and were still made of tin cans and string, I had something to do [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ozrock.net/ron/2009/07/30/live-from-crumbs-cafe/</link>
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		<title>Bobby McFerrin and the Power of the Pentatonic Scale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Embedding is disabled on this video, so you have to go over to YouTube to see it.  But it&#8217;s worth it:  The awesome  Bobby McFerrin &#8220;demonstrates the power of the pentatonic scale&#8221; at the  World Science Festival 2009.
YouTube: World Science Festival 2009 &#8212; Bobby McFerrin
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		<link>http://ozrock.net/ron/2009/07/28/bobby-mcferrin-and-the-power-of-the-pentatonic-scale/</link>
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		<title>Abstinance-geared &#8220;sex-ed&#8221; causes pregnancy &amp; syphilis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine my surprise:  We&#8217;re now reaping the &#8220;rewards&#8221; of Bushies&#8217; Jeebus-driven anti-sex health &#8220;education&#8221; policies.  A new CDC report has both of these  &#8220;rising sharply among a generation of American school girls who were urged to avoid sex before marriage under George Bush&#8217;s evangelically-driven education policy&#8221;.  (US teen pregnancy and syphilis rates rose sharply during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ozrock.net/ron/2009/07/27/abstinance-geared-sex-ed-causes-pregnancy-syphilis/</link>
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