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		<title>WizardRSS violates the AGPL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new site called wizardrss.com has emerged which is simply a copy of the full-text RSS service I developed for FiveFilters.org. Unfortunately the authors fail to mention this and even worse violate the AGPL license by not offering users the opportunity to download the source code. I would contact them about this but there&#8217;s no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyvan.net/2010/03/wizardrss-violates-agpl/</link>
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		<title>BBC Idiocy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Medialens commenting on BBC director of news Richard Sambrook&#8217;s recent move to a public relations company:
It seems a natural career move. In 2002 and 2003 Sambrook&#8217;s BBC news team spun heaven and earth to lend an air of respectability to one of history’s most brazen campaigns of state-orchestrated lying. The performance was encapsulated perfectly by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyvan.net/2010/03/bbc-idiocy/</link>
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		<title>Eduroam in Gothenburg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is a short introduction to eduroam for students studying at Chalmers University of Technology or the University of Gothenburg (GU) in Gothenburg, Sweden. It walks you through an alternative way to connect to the Internet using the wireless university network: eduroam.
PDF version of the guide also available.
Intro
If you&#8217;re a student at either one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyvan.net/2010/03/eduroam-gothenburg/</link>
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		<title>Snowy Gothenburg</title>
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		<title>White Town at London Popfest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Jyoti will be playing at the London 2010 popfest next Sunday. If any Londoners are interested, there&#8217;s more information here. You can read more about White Town and listen to music here.
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		<link>http://www.keyvan.net/2010/02/white-townlondon-popfest/</link>
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		<title>Medialab-Prado Web Activity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This little applet uses the RSS feeds published by Medialab-Prado&#8217;s various web apps to show what people at the workshop have been working on in the last 24 hours. Of course mental activity doesn&#8217;t register &#8211; only wiki changes, blog, micro-blog and forum updates are taken into account.



Written in Processing and PHP. Source code is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyvan.net/2010/02/medialab-prado-web-activity/</link>
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		<title>Tolstoy on Art and Morality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tolstoy quote:

In all his novels after Bel-Ami &#8230; Maupassant evidently submitted to the theory which ruled not only in his circle in Paris, but which now rules everywhere among artists: that for a work of art it is not only unnecessary to have any clear conception of what is right and wrong, but that on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyvan.net/2009/12/tolstoy-on-art-and-morality/</link>
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		<title>Interaction Design and the Corporate World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been trying to find texts discussing the role of design and the effects of corporate influence on design (particularly interaction design). There doesn&#8217;t appear to be very much written on the topic but I did find the following texts:
HCI for the Real World (PDF)
This paper by Nicholas Knouf looks at the field of HCI [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyvan.net/2009/10/interaction-design-corporate-world/</link>
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		<title>A* Search Fun</title>
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This is an experiment in creating randomly connected nodes all trying to upset the A* search algorithm by moving apart as soon as the algorithm finds the shortest path. They don&#8217;t always succeed.  
Left click near the nodes to disturb them.
Right click (or space bar) to see how the algorithm works.
Press &#8216;c&#8217; to generate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyvan.net/2009/10/astar-search/</link>
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		<title>Chomsky in London</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Noam Chomsky will be speaking in London on the 27th and 29th of October. Both talks are free to attend but registration is required for the 29th October.
On 27 October he will be at SOAS with a talk titled Crises and the Unipolar Moment:
It is widely felt that the fall of the Soviet Union left [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.keyvan.net/2009/10/chomsky-in-london/</link>
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