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		<title>Ancient cover: ψυχή or Psycho?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a rather random thing I discovered while listening to Spotify. I&#8217;ve been re-reading The Iliad this week, and I thought I&#8217;d see if there were any ancient Greek music reconstruction albums on Spotify. In my searches, I found a set of albums by the Petros Tabouris Ensemble. So I put these on to play [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gamification of Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Here is another post that I originally wrote for The Missouri Review's blog that I'm archiving here. Check out the TMR's new website!] A few news items have popped up this week about Simon Meek and his company&#8217;s plans to release adaptations of literary works for game consoles &#8212; a version of the spy novel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>600,000 Characters in Need of an Audience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Here's another post I wrote for The Missouri Review, which I'm going to reproduce wholesale here.] GalleyCat reports that 45,000 kids between the ages of 5 and 17 are signed up this year as participants in National Novel Writing Month. I&#8217;ve started several times over the past two weeks to write something about NaNoWriMo, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recycling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've been making a few posts to The Missouri Review's blog recently (and hope to keep doing so throughout this academic year), and I figured I might as well quasi-recycle those posts (at least by linking to them) here.]]></description>
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		<title>More Site Redevelopment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 04:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Spring of 2010, I switched the site over from Drupal to Joomla. The Joomla experiment was interesting, but as a CMS, it remained complicated and abstruse in a way that was initially intriguing but eventually came to be discouraging (and the theme-building and plug-in making community for Joomla seemed to me to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Chef Medieval: Cannibalism for Kings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 04:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here's another striking episode from late in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae:]]></description>
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		<title>Naming Our Gear</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 04:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've always been somewhat fascinated by the tradition of giving weapons personal names, so frequently seen in chivalric romances and Norse sagas. Someday I'd like to do some actual research into the topic, but in the meantime I wonder what the state of this custom is today. ]]></description>
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		<title>Rat-Powered Hurdy-Gurdy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 04:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my ambitions (whenever I find myself with about $3,000 to burn) is to own and learn to play a hurdy gurdy (to add to my collection of instruments that make many listeners flinch). As such, I often find myself browsing You Tube for clips of people doing unconventional things with this medieval instrument.]]></description>
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		<title>Buttery Abscesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to Dr. Mark Crislip’s daily “A Gobbet o’ Pus” podcast (which currently consists of material from last year’s blog posts), and he had a line that I feel absolutely compelled to share. Apparently, colonies of Streptococcus anginosus, which can cause abscesses in the lungs, are said to smell like buttered popcorn.]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Disgusting Tidbit of Milton Lore</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick Lane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I now want to write a poem/song and title it “Milking Milton.” (Actually, I like the title “Milk Me, Milton!” better, but that sort of gets the quote backwards…)]]></description>
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