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	<title>Richard Dooling</title>
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	<description>Novelist, Screenwriter, Fugitive Lawyer, Code Monkey . . .</description>
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		<title>New Yorker: Show Or Tell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should Creative Writing Be Taught?
From The New Yorker, June 8, 2009, by Louis Mendand

The workshop is a process, an unscripted performance space, a regime for forcing people to do two things that are fundamentally contrary to human nature: actually write stuff (as opposed to planning to write stuff very, very soon), and then sit there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2009/06/12/new-yorker-show-or-tell/</link>
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		<title>Rapture Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News items of possible interest to fans of Rapture For The Geeks:

Unix Turns 40 &#8211; Unix turns 40: The past, present and future of a revolutionary OS, by Gary Anthes in ComputerWorld;
The Coming Superbrain &#8211; Computers keep getting smarter while we just stay the same, John Markoff in the Sunday New York Times, 24 May [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2009/04/29/rapture-updates/</link>
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		<title>The Big Takeover</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally, somebody (Matt Taibbi for Rolling Stone) explains A.I.G. and the financial crisis in plain English. It&#8217;s long and depressing, but worth the trip:

So it&#8217;s time to admit it: We&#8217;re fools, protagonists in a kind of gruesome comedy about the marriage of greed and stupidity. And the worst part about it is that we&#8217;re still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2009/03/29/the-big-takeover/</link>
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		<title>If Microsoft&#8217;s EULA Applied To Books</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ For instance if you grow older and more mature, develop a mental illness, change your diet, or receive any artificial limbs or joints, pacemakers, implants, or organ transplants, then you may need to reactivate your license before you will be allowed to reaccess the book.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2008/12/10/if-microsofts-eula-applied-to-books/</link>
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		<title>Rapture For The Geeks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Survival Of The Smartest: Will Geeks Inherit The Earth?
Purchase From Amazon.
Media Coverage of Rapture For The Geeks:


Sunday New York Times Op-Ed, &#8220;The Rise of the Machines,&#8221; by Richard Dooling.
Jeremy Lott reviews Rapture For The Geeks at Ars Technica.
The Wall Street Journal Digital Network.
The New York Observer, Digital Doomsday, by Gillian Reagan.
Thomas Edsall discusses Man Versus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2008/08/26/rapture-for-the-geeks/</link>
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		<title>Mothers Against World Of Warcraft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[graphics by kevin ryan (kryan at dday dot com) 
Mothers Against World of Warcraft
(Excerpted from Rapture For The Geeks, by Richard Dooling.)
Let&#8217;s say that the Singularity is really coming, and let&#8217;s say it&#8217;s powered by Moore&#8217;s Law and Kurzweil&#8217;s Law of Accelerating Returns.  Call the Technological Singularity a cardinal virtue or a fatal flaw: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2008/08/25/mothers-against-world-of-warcraft/</link>
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		<title>Christian Slater Is Jimmy Dolan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Principal photography commenced on Dolan&#8217;s Cadillac in Regina, Saskatchewan on May 26th and finished in Las Vegas in mid-July.  Shooting took place in Regina and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan and Las Vegas, Nevada.
Currently, Dolan&#8217;s is in post-production in Regina, Saskatchewan and Toronto.  Nice summary here.  
Anyone familiar with the Stephen King novella, Dolan&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2008/08/25/christian-slater-is-jimmy-dolan/</link>
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		<title>Connected and Hermetically Sealed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing in his Everybody&#8217;s Business column for the New York Times, Ben Stein wonders whether &#8220;connectedness&#8221; is even worse than just overrated: 

WHAT would we do if cellphones and P.D.A.’s disappeared? We would be forced to think again. We would have to confront reality. My own life is spent mostly with men and women of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2008/08/24/connected-yes-but-hermetically-sealed-nytimescom/</link>
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		<title>The Dumbest Generation by Mark Bauerlein</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;The Dumbest Generation&#8217; by Mark Bauerlein &#8211; Los Angeles Times
The way Bauerlein sees it, something new and disastrous has happened to America&#8217;s youth with the arrival of the instant gratification go-go-go digital age. The result is, essentially, a collective loss of context and history, a neglect of &#8220;enduring ideas and conflicts.&#8221; Survey after painstakingly recounted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2008/07/13/the-dumbest-generation-by-mark-bauerlein/</link>
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		<title>Is Google Making Us Stupid?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing in The Atlantic Monthly, Nicholas Carr asks Is Google Making Us Stupid? &#8220;My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richarddooling.com/index.php/2008/06/10/is-google-making-us-stupid/</link>
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