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		<title>jimi hendrix live painting by denny dent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years back I remember seeing an intense painting of Hendrix hanging in a friend&#8217;s apartment.  I found out later it was painted live to a music track by the guitarist at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.  I&#8217;m really amazed by the energy that Denny Dent puts has brush strokes as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/240</link>
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		<title>stone age temple at gobelki tepe in turkey</title>
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It&#8217;s more than twice as old as the Pyramids, or even the written word. When it was built, saber-toothed tigers and woolly mammoths still roamed, and the Ice Age had just ended.
The elaborate temple at Gobelki Tepe in southeastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, is staggeringly ancient: 11,500 years old, from a time just before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/344</link>
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		<title>kitty kungfu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who can get enough of cat headed bipeds performing in a dance of death?
I am pleased in how disproportionally large, yet functional the cat heads are on the bodies they operate.  One can only hold in baited breath for the further adventures of this lone warrior against the armies of the corrupt feline.
On an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/343</link>
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		<title>it&#8217;s cold outside, time to inflate the tires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We got a little concerned this weekend when the check engine light was flashing on the car&#8217;s dashboard.  With the recent drop in temperature, I had an idea of what was probably causing it.

Cold weather air contracts and brings the PSI down.  Most standard-size car tires maximum PSI is around 44.  You can find your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/342</link>
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		<title>evolution of technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A twisted vision of consumption ascending a fictional chain of steam-punk creatures.  Wir hassen teuer.  (We hate expensive)

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		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/340</link>
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		<title>strange glowing aurora over saturn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Staring at the below picture reminds me of the cauldrons and alchemy of past civilizations.  It&#8217;s interesting that several other planets in the solar system share the same phenomenon as our own northern lights.  That&#8217;s something that I would like to see with my own eyes someday.
A stunning light display over Saturn has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/337</link>
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		<title>i am 8 bit: chrono trigger painting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Time for a past art update.
Here&#8217;s the painting I did for this year&#8217;s I am 8 Bit Show.
Robo, Crono, Lucca, Ayla, Frog and Marle are all in the image.
You can download a larger version for your desktop here.

Watch the video below to see a great rendition of the Chrono Trigger / Chrono Cross themes by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/336</link>
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		<title>ancient art of falconry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was rummaging through old work in storage and found some entertaining drawings from 4th grade: warriors with mechanical birds perched on their shoulders to aid in battle.   I wasn&#8217;t sure where the idea came from then, but now know that its origins started in Falconry.  There are even places allow you to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/335</link>
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		<title>voting after a day&#8217;s work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After putting in a day&#8217;s work, I headed off to vote.  If you haven&#8217;t done it yet, make sure to get out to your local precinct and caste your ballot.
Not too long ago my friend Joe sent this funny video to myself and others relating to the election.  Hahaha.  I was tricked at first and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/334</link>
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		<title>devil dog artshow tonight: pumpkin heads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are in the NYC area tonight and are in a Halloween mood, drop on by the The Showroom Gallery tonight from 7pm to 11pm and check out the Devil Dog Artshow.
If you need directions, click here to get them at google maps.
Here&#8217;s the piece I did for the show, it is called &#8220;Pumpkin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/333</link>
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		<title>boston dynamics - robotic quadruped</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog&#8217;s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/329</link>
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		<title>mr. nico and mr. bear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently somebody thinks Mr. Nico looks like a certain Mr. Bear.

Notice the fine attention to details, such as the uneven facial hair and the Masters of the Universe t shirt.  My favorite nuance would have to be the epic struggle between stickman Skeletor and He-Man below the logo of the animated series.
Who crafted this remarkably [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/331</link>
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		<title>barking squirrel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One Saturday morning I woke up to an odd barking noise outside.  A lot of our neighbors have dogs and take them for walks in the morning, so naturally I thought Sparky was the source of the commotion.  Scanning the ground yielded no visual confirmation.  Instead, my eyes were directed up to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/330</link>
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		<title>machine attempts to trick man in a turing test</title>
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The Turing test is a proposal for a test of a machine&#8217;s ability to demonstrate intelligence.
A human judge engages in a natural language conversation with one human and one machine, each of which try to appear human; if the judge cannot reliably tell which is which, then the machine is said to pass the test. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/312</link>
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		<title>third presidential debate at hofstra university</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hofstra University hosted this year&#8217;s third presidential debate in a sit-down forum moderated by Bob Shieffer.  The University has a feature-rich index page with various media relating to the issues discussed.  If you haven&#8217;t looked into some of the issues on the tip of spear, this hub of information is a good place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/326</link>
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		<title>a new ziggurat planned in dubai</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dubai seems to be ahead of the curve with architecture and urban planning.  A thousand years from now, who knows?  Perhaps in time our planet will be covered with geometric structures like this.  
I myself would be interested in seeing the technology on a more modular level, where I could buy a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/323</link>
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		<title>super animal friends to the rescue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Besides Street Fighter 4 and Tatsunoko vs Capcom, there is one other sparring game that is blowing my mind: Ultimate Ninja Storm.  The style, timing, and cinematic quality has been translated in a way which I&#8217;ve never seen in a 3-d fighter.  The frame rate seems to hold stable during game play, even at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/324</link>
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		<title>mouse battles snake and wins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A surprising story that demonstrates how the tables can turn at any point and time&#8230;..Advantage, mouse.
A mouse bit a venomous viper to death after it was thrown into the snake&#8217;s cage as a lunchtime snack.  The tiny rodent killed the snake after a fierce 30-minute battle, emerging with &#8220;barely a scratch on him&#8221;, according [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/322</link>
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		<title>conjunction junction, what&#8217;s your function</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First Aired:  1973
Lyrics &#038; Music:  Bob Dorough
Performed by:  Jack Sheldon
Designed by:  Tom Yohe and Bill Peckmann
Animation by:  Phil Kimmelman and Associates
Fun Fact:  Conjunction Junction was recorded on the same day as I&#8217;m Just a Bill, with the same band.  Jazz singer Terry Morel sings the chorus.

Lyrics:
Conjunction Junction, what&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/308</link>
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		<title>watching the industrial average</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A stock investor by profession I am not, but I&#8217;ve been keeping my eye on the Dow Jones for the past few years.  Market trends and how they are affected have always interested me.  It&#8217;s like a complicated role-playing game of statistics and probabilities.  Main St. is effected by Wall St, and every other market [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/321</link>
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		<title>devil dog art show: in nyc at end of october</title>
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Here&#8217;s an art show I&#8217;m working on for the end of the month.  It&#8217;s called the Osaka Popstar Devil Dog show at the Showroom Gallery in NYC.  There&#8217;s a  diverse lineup of artists, designers, directors, and actors taking part.  I&#8217;m working on my design right now and will post more pictures in the near [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/316</link>
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		<title>spore: the sim-everything from will wright</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept surrounding this title posed some interesting questions not many explore.  Origins, self-awareness, and the evolution of social organizations from bestial necessity to cosmic exploration find themselves under the macroscope. The game in no small way entertains the viewpoints between intelligent design and evolution.  To some degree I think it plays a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/314</link>
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		<title>bringing non-living matter to life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This will a be a milestone when fully developed, but should be developed in caution.  My main concern is second generation technology that could evolve from this, such as self-replicating nano-machines.  The notion of terminators in the future may be much smaller than we think&#8230;..
A team of biologists and chemists is closing in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/313</link>
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		<title>the average age of civilizations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think I can speak the mind of most people tied into the world economy and say things are a bit on edge right now.  As I wrote about earlier, most of this debacle was heralded by the situation with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  This maelstrom, however, has been brewing for years.
One of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/311</link>
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		<title>katherine mcalpine and the large hadron rap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The progress of the Large Hadron Collider, the world&#8217;s largest particle accelerator, has been an interesting one.  An air of cautious and excited attitudes have followed the project as it&#8217;s evolved through phases of development.  There&#8217;s been some controversy surrounding the construction of the device, and with a recent breach of helium containment, it will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/301</link>
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		<title>hot air balloon launch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never seen hot air balloons launch in real life before.  I guess it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m not an early rise person.  I&#8217;m glad I went against my nature to see them take off yesterday morning at 6:30am from a mist covered field.
My favorite balloon of the entire show was the dragon one.  The happy dragon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/307</link>
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		<title>dog whisperer 100th episode this friday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are only a handful of TV shows that I can watch for a while, and continue watching.  I would have to put Cesar Millan&#8217;s show Dog Whisperer at the top of that list.  It&#8217;s awesome.  That guy really knows how animals think, from the inside out. What is clear to anyone [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/306</link>
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		<title>moving from 32 to 64 bit os</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve run into a wall recently, and it&#8217;s 32 bit. The setup I currently have is good enough for most everything else (low to mid-stress games, artwork, etc), but 1080p HD playback and editing required a re-think to what hardware I was running everything on.  I  never upgrade hardware unless it limits my software&#8217;s work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/295</link>
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		<title>fannie mae and freddie mac on charlie rose</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is one of the largest pinch-points of the current economy in the United States? Mortgage loans and the housing bubble, of course. This is only one corner of the multi-faceted tower that comprises the country&#8217;s stability as a whole, and its syncopation into the world system.  The government acquisition of the lending giants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/300</link>
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		<title>no sunspots for first time in 100 years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that is brought to the forefront by this event is the significance of the sun&#8217;s effect on our solar system, and the abnormal stall of an 11 year cycle.  It is also noted that there is a constant fluctuation between warming and cooling cycles of the sun, which in turn contribute to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/294</link>
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		<title>megaman 9 reboots classic gameplay and graphics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You will probably do a double-take after watching the trailer below, thinking it&#8217;s an old game for the NES.  It tricked me too.  This is going to be the new Megaman 9 game released by Capcom!  They got back to the basics, and even put in the screen flicker that was a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/280</link>
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		<title>the disclosure project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to information that is out of my skill set, I  enjoy hearing lectures by experts in those particular fields.  What if hundreds of them were officially documented to being witness to unexplainable and curious events?
Science logically accounts for roughly 1% of the known universe, and we have explored less than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/137</link>
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		<title>kardashev scale: civilizations type 1, 2, and 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In totality as a civilization, how do we rank on a cosmic level in energy processing and efficiency?  Haha, apparently dudes like Carl Sagan put us low on the scale.  It&#8217;s interesting to think if we even hope to ascend to a point where one could travel from one star system to another, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/204</link>
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		<title>lotus builds propellar driven bio-fuel vehicle on skis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I first saw this contraption on the Wired blog, I thought I was looking at an old drawing of mine from grade school, or something that would be used for transportation by Storm Shadow.   I wonder how many miles to the gallon these vehicles get.  It looks like only one human fits to each [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/292</link>
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		<title>the library of alexandria: then and now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Royal library of Alexandria in Egypt was once the largest of its kind in the ancient world.  The story behind its foundation in the 3rd century BC, destruction, and eventual rebuilding is shown below.  If indeed the original library was met with destruction on several occasions, it leaves one wondering what ancient knowledge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/289</link>
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		<title>yoda the cat, born with four ears</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strange mammal alert.  Don&#8217;t you wish you had a pet like this?  I think if the X-men had a cat, it would be similar, except it would have some type of sonic sound ability.  I like how this feline poses for photos:  WITH AUTHORITY.

They say cats have nine lives, but this one has four ears.
A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/286</link>
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		<title>brain scanners see decisions before you do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may think you decided to read this story &#8212; but in fact, your brain made the decision long before you knew about it.
In a study published in Nature Neuroscience, researchers using brain scanners could predict people&#8217;s decisions seven seconds before the test subjects were even aware of making them.
The decision studied &#8212; whether to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/200</link>
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		<title>strange shape on high school surveillance camera</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What was captured on a camera in the early hours of the morning in North Carolina?  Things that make you go hmm. I&#8217;m in the same frame of mind as Charlie, the guy in the video.  But it seems even he is left scratching his head.

&#8230;..It’s something, so far, the Asheville School District [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/283</link>
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		<title>i am 8 bit: event pictures and article links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below are some links and great pictures (notcot.com) taken at the I am 8 Bit event that happened a couple of days ago.  A few of my friends (Woebots, Peekaboo, 2H) from Pocket Full of Monsters customized an arcade machine that was sitting out in front of the venue.  Wow.  It looks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tragnark.com/blog/archives/284</link>
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		<title>twisting time to solve puzzles in braid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while a crazy game comes along that does something to redefine the genre in its time.  I was blown away by the play mechanics and logic puzzles in Portal, and it looks like Braid is something of the same category.  When I first saw videos if it, the design [...]]]></description>
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