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		<title>geekculture.com appears as Jeopardy answer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our friends Nitrozac and Snaggy over at GeekCulture / The Joy of Tech probably thought they hit the height of geek honors earlier this year when they were shown in Steve Jobs&#8217; keynote address at Macworld SF 2008. They might have thought that was as good as it could get until they were alerted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In brief&#8211; Twitterrific 3.0.1 released</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@all Iconfatory has posted the 3.0.1 update to Twitterific, squashing some nasty &#8220;bad request&#8221; bugs and adding a new 512 pixel icon. Twoosh! Note:]]></description>
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		<title>Greenpeace responds to &#8221;A Greener Apple&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2007 23:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apple Inc. has recently declared its new environmental commitment, &#8220;A Greener Apple&#8221;. The details of this announcement would elevate Apple&#8217;s score on Greenpeace&#8217;s &#8216;Guide to Greener Electronics,&#8217; to approximately a 5 (from a previous score of 2.7) out of 10 points. Below is Greenpeace&#8217;s response to this announcement. Apple has decided to bring us closer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greenpeace&#8217;s love for Macs not reciprocated. Get&#8217;s thrown out of Mac Expo.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greenpeace&#8217;s high profile &#8220;Green my Apple&#8221; stall was shut-down today at the start of the Mac Expo. Organisers of the Mac Expo claimed they had received complaints from unnamed sources. The Greenpeace stall was bought for the three-day expo in an attempt to raise awareness about concerns over the use of toxic chemicals in Apple&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laptops, iPods banned on UK Flights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authorities in the United Kingdom banned passengers from taking electronic items &#8211; such as iPods and notebook computers &#8211; as carry-on on planes following the arrests of 21 people Thursday in connection with an alleged plot to blow up aircraft mid-flight en route to the US. Other items, including liquids, food, and prettymuch anything that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Mac software company seeks developers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 00:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fastforward Software, a new Macintosh software developer and publisher founded by Joshua Coventry in June 2006, is currently seeking more developers to publish their software. The company offers exclusive services to independent developers who want to increase their sales and have the advantages of a publisher for distribution, marketing, promotion and more. Fastforward Software says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iLounge Blog the Book XL Contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To get the word out about our Free iPod Book 2.0, iLounge.com teamed up with Geneva to launch the Blog the Book XL Contest. Like last year&#8217;s contest, all you have to do to enter is add one of our contest badges to your blog or website and link to the Book. The grand prize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$50,000 worth of iPods getting scratched for Tekserve ad</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tekserve, a computer store on West 23rd Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in New York City, evidently had a lot of spare equipment floating around. So, with a couple hundred iPods and a little time to spare, the folks there set the digital devices up in a domino line and filmed their first commercial. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Clooney&#8217;s Oscar Gift Bag iPod on the auction block</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[United Way of America today announced that the online auction of the Academy Awards Gift Bag received by George Clooney at this year&#8217;s Oscar Awards ceremony &#8212; which the Oscar-winning actor/producer/director and member of United Way&#8217;s Board of Trustees generously donated to United Way to support hurricane response and recovery efforts &#8212; began at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iQuit, an anti-smoking PSA with iPod flavor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2006 23:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Health Canada-funded anti-smoking social marketing campaign called &#8220;Smoke Screen: Through the Eyes of New Canadians&#8221; is airing public service announcements that had been produced through the program by 16 young immigrants and refugees in East Vancouver in October of 2005. The youths learned about the art and craft of &#8220;counter-marketing&#8221; and brainstormed, wrote and [...]]]></description>
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