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	<title>A Series of Tubes</title>
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	<description>It's not a big truck</description>
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		<title>UCSC March 4th Protest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So today there is a large protest at UCSC.  Below are some pictures I took on my way up to campus.  I got cruz alert, on campus emergency alert system, messages saying that I should avoid both campus entrances due to safety concerns.  I plan on heading over to some administrative buildings to see if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oehlberg.com/blog/2010/03/04/ucsc-march-4th-protest/</link>
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		<title>Yelp Gets Sued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New news on the yelp front.  As background: A while back, yelp originally got in the news due to an east bay express article regarding extortion practices that their sales department would engage in.  Essentially east bay express claimed that yelp would call up a businesses and say &#8220;hey that&#8217;s a nice rating you&#8217;ve got [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oehlberg.com/blog/2010/02/26/yelp-gets-sued/</link>
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		<title>Racial Tensions at UCSD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent party at UC San Diego has sparked a lot of controversy.  The name of the party was the Compton Cookout.  The part was to mark &#8220;a very important month in American society. No, i&#8217;m not referring to Valentines day or Presidents day. I&#8217;m talking about Black History month.&#8221;  To read the full invitation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oehlberg.com/blog/2010/02/26/racial-tensions-at-ucsd/</link>
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		<title>Garrison Keillor&#8217;s Christmas Blessings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Garrison Keillor is a radio personality on NPR that writes and stars in A Prairie Home Companion, who recently wrote something controversial.  For background purposes: He is an episcopalian, and former Lutheran.  His show is &#8220;family friendly&#8221; in that it does not discuss weighty or controversial topics with any seriousness, and the music featured on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oehlberg.com/blog/2009/12/21/garrison-keillo/</link>
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		<title>The Depression of Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With California in financial ruin, and the health care reform bill slowly transforming into the health care status quo bill, it&#8217;s hard to not become a pessimist.  Matt Taibibi is not helping.  The link below a video because it apparently auto plays and I didn&#8217;t want that when people loaded the main page:

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		<link>http://oehlberg.com/blog/2009/12/11/the-depression-of-politics/</link>
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		<title>Video Games</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is important to exercise your mind. That is why I try to engage in tasks that improve my attention, memory, and executive control.  To be fair I don&#8217;t actively try to quantize my activities that way, but recently found out that one of my favorite activities has this exact side effect.  That [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oehlberg.com/blog/2009/12/10/video-games/</link>
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		<title>Happy Buy Nothing Day</title>
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		<link>http://oehlberg.com/blog/2009/11/27/happy-buy-nothing-day/</link>
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		<title>Aftermath of the UC Regents 32% Fee Increase</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week the UC board of Regents increased student fees by 32%.  At UCSC there was an initial protest on Wednesday, and an Occupation of the Kresge town hall building which moved to Kerr hall (an administrative building)  on Friday.  The Occupation at Kerr hall was broken up on Sunday.  The reason [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oehlberg.com/blog/2009/11/23/aftermath-of-the-uc-regents-32-fee-increase/</link>
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		<title>The UC system Explained</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a great video to understand the problems facing the University of California system (must have javascript enabled):

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		<link>http://oehlberg.com/blog/2009/11/20/the-uc-system-explained/</link>
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		<title>More UCSC Rumblings of Occupation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I had written up about 90% of a post about the rumblings happening on various blogs about another potential occupation.  The main evidence for this is the posting of a new manifesto entitled &#8220;this is our emergency&#8220;.  I had to scrap a majority of my original post because the rumblings of a new occupation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oehlberg.com/blog/2009/11/19/more-ucsc-rumblings-of-occupation/</link>
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