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	<title>Dave Kearns</title>
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		<title>sometimes you&#8217;re surprised</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surprised by how you react to something. I&#8217;ve never been a big Larry Lessig fan (e.g., see Death of the Internet ). We rarely agree about things, particularly in the area of intellectual property. So when all the buzz on the web, the blogosphere, the tweetzone and even the Facebook hustings were filled with encomiums [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davekearns.com/?p=83</link>
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		<title>Good show!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saw the premiere of the musical version of &#8220;Daddy Long Legs&#8221; from Theaterworks last night. The book (by John Caird) and the music (by Paul Gordon) were delightful. This is a two character play, told mostly (except for the opening few minutes and the final five or so) through letters. While that sounds like it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davekearns.com/?p=78</link>
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		<title>Conan and the barbarians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With all the talk about Leno&#8217;s new &#8220;old&#8221; gig at NBC (move Leno to 11:30-12:05) and the possibilities for Conan (move to 12:05 &#8211; 1:05), Fox (with their offer to Conan) could really steal late night. Fox stations tend to do local news from 10 &#8211; 11. So put Conan on from 11 &#8211; 12. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davekearns.com/?p=74</link>
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		<title>The eyes of Texas are tearful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Take away two bad play calls by Mack Brown &#38; his staff and Texas    is the National Champion football team. Bad call #1 &#8211; the shovel pass at the end of the 1st quarter. Not only was this (obviously) something that the freshman QB wasn&#8217;t adept at, but even if it hadn&#8217;t been intercepted it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davekearns.com/?p=65</link>
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		<title>Happy Holidays!</title>
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		<link>http://davekearns.com/?p=38</link>
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		<title>Please forget the lyrics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up I often watched Dick Clark&#8217;s &#8220;American Bandstand&#8221; after school. One of my favorite segments was a &#8220;rate the record&#8221; bit where the kids would listen to a new tune and give it a rating. The highest praise, of course, was that it &#8220;had a good beat. You can dance to it.&#8221; I never [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davekearns.com/?p=60</link>
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		<title>Berlin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just back from a week in Berlin (for TEC 2009) &#8211; our first visit to Germany&#8217;s newest, and oldest, capital. What can you say about a place whose culinary claim to fame is &#8220;Currywurst&#8221; (there&#8217;s even a museum!) and Berliner potato soup (BERLINER KARTOFFELSUPPE) made with potatoes and pickles! It&#8217;s said to have been Kaiser [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davekearns.com/?p=57</link>
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		<title>Who would be a statesman?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[plus ça change, plus c&#8217;est la même chose: &#8220;A statesman in these days has a difficult task. He has to pursue the policy he deems advantageous to his country, but he has at the same time to recognize the force of popular feeling. Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddleheaded, and eminently unsound, but it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davekearns.com/?p=55</link>
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		<title>Au Revoir Ed McMahon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ed McMahon died today, seemingly the last link to a gentler, softer time on TV and in the media generally. In a very nice obit in the New York Daily News (Of all places!) David Hinckley writes: &#8220;As host of &#8216;Star Search,&#8217; he kept the show moving, kept the mood upbeat, never did anything to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davekearns.com/?p=51</link>
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		<title>Redefining &#8220;personal expression&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Google today unveiled new images to use with iGoogle. The post announcing this said, in part, &#8220;At its core, iGoogle is about personal expression.&#8221; But if that were really true I could use my own photos in the header, wouldn&#8217;t you think?]]></description>
		<link>http://davekearns.com/?p=47</link>
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