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		<title>Learning to Ask</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime. &#8212; Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore, 2006, p. 255. (Hat tip to The Technium) A personal failing of mine involves questions, or more accurately the asking of questions. What makes this so crazy is that I&#8217;m curious. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debunking the Myth of Easy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I got to try out my other skills when I participated in a local, handmade fair. When I&#8217;m not pounding away at the keyboard, I&#8217;m usually making things with fabric and yarn.  I&#8217;d tried selling my work on Etsy, but had allowed other things to get in the way of finishing more projects, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Past the Mirror</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We can’t help thinking about how we look. We’re reminded every time we pass a mirror of how we look. And just try not looking in the mirror when you walk by. It’s harder than you think. So the experiment by PhD student Kjerstin Gruys to avoid mirrors for a year struck me as both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Time To Rethink Patents and Copyright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Without question, the rights of creators need protecting. Whether it’s a form of copyright or patent, the inventors of the amazing things we use and enjoy every day deserve recognition and payment for their efforts. Unfortunately, our current system for protecting creators has been perverted by individuals, companies, and governments seeking perpetual exclusivity and big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bold-words.com/the-time-to-rethink-patents-and-copyright/</link>
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		<title>Staring at a Blank Page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I collect tablets of all shapes and sizes. My love of tablets may not equal my love of books, but my fascination with their blank pages is a potent one nonetheless. It&#8217;s the tantalizing, and highly frustrating, blank pages I want to talk about today. Every time I buy a new tablet, it marks a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclaiming Slut Fights the Wrong Battle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of late, I&#8217;ve heard much about this idea of &#8220;reclaiming&#8221; words. Most often the idea of reclaiming is connected to negative and derogatory words. The goal is to remove the power to degrade from words that get used as verbal weapons. The latest word reclamation project that&#8217;s come to my attention is &#8220;slut.&#8221; At first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Urgent Versus Important Priorities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, I made a deal with myself that I&#8217;d only buy a new book if everything on my shelves had been read. Naturally I gave myself a pass on some of the classics that we buy with every intention of reading, but never quite get to. I&#8217;m not sure when it happened, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bold-words.com/managing-urgent-versus-important-priorities/</link>
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		<title>Beginnings, Middles, and Ends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere between the beginning and the end the middle falls. It&#8217;s rarely as exciting as the beginning nor as nostalgic as the end. Sometimes the middle just is. I often think you can learn more about someone by how they act in the middle than at any other time, which leads me to my current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bold-words.com/beginnings-middles-and-ends/</link>
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		<title>WordPress vs. Thesis: The Stronger Argument</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until a few weeks ago, I was unaware of the arguments going on surrounding the WordPress GPL license and Thesis, a premium WordPress theme. Tris Hussey provided an insightful post along with a link to an excellent overview by Mark Jaquith. This post isn&#8217;t a rehash of the rights or wrongs of either side in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bold-words.com/wordpress-vs-thesis-the-stronger-argument/</link>
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		<title>Why Presidents Can&#8217;t Fix Disasters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you believe the news, we&#8217;re a nation transfixed on the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, I propose that we&#8217;re a nation obsessed with ascribing blame and demanding an immediate fix, and the story we&#8217;re told fits within those constraints. There&#8217;s no question that this situation is an ugly one. There&#8217;s no [...]]]></description>
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