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	<description>Dissecting everyday images of escape and paradise.</description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t mess with beaches ~ thoughts on an unnatural disaster</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2010/05/dont-mess-with-beaches-thoughts-on-an-unnatural-disaster/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 02:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Beaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Natural Disasters]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Disasters in Paradise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The gushing Louisiana oil well is about to show that paradise is a more powerful force than political allegiances. The Florida coast and islands are threatened. Obama has spent much of his first year+ rushing to the center, presumably building momentum for reelection in 2012. His approval of expanded offshore drilling mostly just fueled consternation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Pocket God really the best app ever, CNN?</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2010/02/is-pocket-god-really-the-best-app-ever-cnn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[iPhone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CNN has had too many drivel moments lately, so I finally put their site into my site blocker on my router; it was liberating. They recently posted a series of nine “Best iPhone apps,” as voted on by readers of a site called 148apps, and the “Best app ever [for 2009]” went to the kill-the-cute-island-inhabitants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crayola Crayon Color Names ~ Rain = Pain</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/04/crayola-crayon-color-names-rain-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/04/crayola-crayon-color-names-rain-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contests and Sweepstakes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural Symbols]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Growing Up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Plants and Flowers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sun]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In case you wanted more feeling from the images that are thrust in front of you and your kids every day, Crayola has taken steps to give it to you with its new color names.&#160; Three of them are relevant here: Best Friends, Fun in the Sun, and Super Happy.&#160; Here they are from their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rich people starting to &#8220;jet pool&#8221; to private islands to help save the planet ~ gee, thanks</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/03/rich-people-starting-to-jet-pool-to-private-islands-to-help-save-the-planet-gee-thanks/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/03/rich-people-starting-to-jet-pool-to-private-islands-to-help-save-the-planet-gee-thanks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islands]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Necker Island, the private island retreat of Richard Branson, is the global warming locale of the moment as several celebrity-status entrepreneurs and politicians gather there to talk about a world &#34;on fire&#34; according to the International Herald Tribune. The best line of the article is this: &#34;Some of them, like [Google co-founder Larry] Page, carbon-consciously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surfwise ~ the story of one 11-member family who left behind their old world to become surf nomads</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/03/surfwise-the-story-of-one-11-member-family-who-left-behind-their-old-world-to-become-surf-nomads/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/03/surfwise-the-story-of-one-11-member-family-who-left-behind-their-old-world-to-become-surf-nomads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Surfing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utopia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Doug Pray has a film coming out in May called &#34;Surfwise.&#34;&#160; It&#8217;s about Dorian &#34;Doc&#34; Paskowitz and the 10 other members of his family who set out on an off-the-grid odyssey in a 24-foot camper.&#160; Here&#8217;s one [movie] trailer: &#160; Here&#8217;s another trailer at Apple.&#160; Part of the documentary&#8217;s description from that site reads: &#34;Like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recessions in paradise</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/03/recessions-in-paradise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business and Commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Real Estate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paradise might not care about blackout dates, but businesses there are not immune from heading for the red zone.&#160; Hence this map: It&#8217;s from the USA Today article &#34;How&#8217;s the economy in your hometown?&#34; I&#8217;ve been staring at it a lot and have begun to ponder to what extent paradise marketing had an effect on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Park Imaginationland ~ the ideal of destructive creativity</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/03/south-park-imaginationland-the-ideal-of-destructive-creativity/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/03/south-park-imaginationland-the-ideal-of-destructive-creativity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Utopia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People who create comedy from the worlds we live in are a good place to start when thinking about our ideas of ideal places.&#160; Enter the &#34;new feature length DVD movie&#34; called &#34;South Park Imaginationland&#34;: There are no weird palm trees, just architectural evidence in which Bavaria meets the Netherlands meets Yemen set in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Talibanization of Paradise in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/02/the-talibanization-of-paradise-in-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/02/the-talibanization-of-paradise-in-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Jerusalem Post has an article by Shaheen Buneri called &#34;The Talibanization of Paradise.&#34;&#160; It&#8217;s worth a read.&#160; Here&#8217;s a brief glimpse: &#34;Swat [in Pakistan], peaceful beauty, land of color, roses and gushing rivers, rich in history, home to myriads of Buddhist stupas, idyllic spot for glorious Pashtun traditions of love, peace, and hospitality, until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AP: &#8216;An unloved new island in Maldives&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/02/ap-an-unloved-new-island-in-maldives/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/02/ap-an-unloved-new-island-in-maldives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Islands]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Urbanity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press write Matthew Rosenberg has a new article called &#34;An unloved new island in Maldives.&#34;&#160; The article talks about the island of Hulhumal&#233; that the government of the Maldives built near the airport and the capital of Male.&#160; They can&#8217;t seem to attract people to live there according to the article.&#160; Of course, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appalling Golfweek magazine noose cover</title>
		<link>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/01/appalling-golfweek-magazine-noose-cover/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.rapidsea.com/2008/01/appalling-golfweek-magazine-noose-cover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:32:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Golf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Magazines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the media representatives of the escapist, and often exclusive, sport of golf has caused quite an uproar.&#160; It&#8217;s Golfweek magazine, which published this cover with a noose on it: What?! It&#8217;s not like noose scares aren&#8217;t all over the news?&#160; Is that where they got the idea?&#160; This is a classic example of [...]]]></description>
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