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		<title>By: Belinda Vele</title>
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		<dc:creator>Belinda Vele</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice post . I voted for it up on stumbleupon even though I partially talked about above said on my blog :) Anyway I just popped in to say hello and compliment your efforts.See you on the web :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nice post . I voted for it up on stumbleupon even though I partially talked about above said on my blog <img src='http://therawness.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Anyway I just popped in to say hello and compliment your efforts.See you on the web <img src='http://therawness.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: mp3 downloads Prodigy</title>
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		<dc:creator>mp3 downloads Prodigy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Track listing - Invaders Must Die...&lt;/strong&gt;

The album debuted at the top of the UK Album Chart on the 1st of March with 97,254 albums sold, giving them their fourth consecutive number one album in the UK......</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Track listing &#8211; Invaders Must Die&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>The album debuted at the top of the UK Album Chart on the 1st of March with 97,254 albums sold, giving them their fourth consecutive number one album in the UK&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: dchero</title>
		<link>http://therawness.com/nerds-geeks-and-dorks-a-primer/comment-page-1/#comment-338</link>
		<dc:creator>dchero</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It would have been nice of you to elaborate further on dorks, but I really liked the contrast between Nerds and Geeks. I had always thought Nerds were a subset of Geeks. I like your definition better.

&lt;em&gt;dchero&#039;s last blog post..&lt;a href=&#039;http://dchero.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/the-cz/&#039; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The Comfort Zone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It would have been nice of you to elaborate further on dorks, but I really liked the contrast between Nerds and Geeks. I had always thought Nerds were a subset of Geeks. I like your definition better.</p>
<p><em>dchero&#8217;s last blog post..<a href='http://dchero.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/the-cz/' rel="nofollow">The Comfort Zone</a></em></p>
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		<title>By: Stank Stank</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stank Stank</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>SP &lt;3&#039;s this post.  SP is a geek with freakish athletic ability and a love for sci-fi and comics.

&lt;em&gt;Stank Stank&#039;s last blog post..&lt;a href=&#039;http://stankonipoliticist.blogspot.com/2008/02/most-dynamic-flexible-and-essential.html&#039; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Country in progress: the United States of America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SP &lt;3&#8217;s this post.  SP is a geek with freakish athletic ability and a love for sci-fi and comics.</p>
<p><em>Stank Stank&#8217;s last blog post..<a href='http://stankonipoliticist.blogspot.com/2008/02/most-dynamic-flexible-and-essential.html' rel="nofollow">Country in progress: the United States of America</a></em></p>
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		<title>By: Smash</title>
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		<dc:creator>Smash</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>not me, chief.
i&#039;ve been teased too many times and for too long. Your jedi mind-tricks don&#039;t work on me, lady.

I&#039;ve recently come to the conclusion that provocatively dressed and/or behaved women are a waste of MY time. (this has nothing to do with you china blue). These women are like walking pornos. softcore pornos that tease and tittilate but give me no more real chance at a non-masturbatory sexual experience than smut mags. And sometimes i&#039;ll get just as much intellectual depth. 
furthermore, i&#039;ve gotten to the point in my life where that doesn&#039;t even arouse me any more. i can watch a half hour of porn and barely &quot;fill-up.&quot;
On the other hand, gimme a woman who is hiding something whether naturally, directly, subconsciously or whatever. 
I don&#039;t think i&#039;m the only one who gets more aroused by a big set being barely contained by a wool turtleneck. 
no no. try to tease me and i&#039;m flipping the channel.
play it straight and i&#039;m lustin after you like pepe lepew.

this is somewhat correlated to the &quot;2nd-hottest-friend theory.&quot;

&lt;em&gt;Smash&#039;s last blog post..&lt;a href=&#039;http://dartmouthdropout.blogspot.com/2008/02/sweet-bohemian-rhapsody.html&#039; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;SWEET BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY!!!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>not me, chief.<br />
i&#8217;ve been teased too many times and for too long. Your jedi mind-tricks don&#8217;t work on me, lady.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve recently come to the conclusion that provocatively dressed and/or behaved women are a waste of MY time. (this has nothing to do with you china blue). These women are like walking pornos. softcore pornos that tease and tittilate but give me no more real chance at a non-masturbatory sexual experience than smut mags. And sometimes i&#8217;ll get just as much intellectual depth.<br />
furthermore, i&#8217;ve gotten to the point in my life where that doesn&#8217;t even arouse me any more. i can watch a half hour of porn and barely &#8220;fill-up.&#8221;<br />
On the other hand, gimme a woman who is hiding something whether naturally, directly, subconsciously or whatever.<br />
I don&#8217;t think i&#8217;m the only one who gets more aroused by a big set being barely contained by a wool turtleneck.<br />
no no. try to tease me and i&#8217;m flipping the channel.<br />
play it straight and i&#8217;m lustin after you like pepe lepew.</p>
<p>this is somewhat correlated to the &#8220;2nd-hottest-friend theory.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Smash&#8217;s last blog post..<a href='http://dartmouthdropout.blogspot.com/2008/02/sweet-bohemian-rhapsody.html' rel="nofollow">SWEET BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY!!!</a></em></p>
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		<title>By: T</title>
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		<dc:creator>T</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Shit, you really know how to pique a guy&#039;s interest with your blog post title, China.  In the time I&#039;ve had that little &quot;so-and-so&#039;s last blog post&quot; feature, I don&#039;t think I&#039;ve ever seen a title so guaranteed to cause a mass exodus of fellas from my site.  Also, reading at 2?  Freak!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Shit, you really know how to pique a guy&#8217;s interest with your blog post title, China.  In the time I&#8217;ve had that little &#8220;so-and-so&#8217;s last blog post&#8221; feature, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever seen a title so guaranteed to cause a mass exodus of fellas from my site.  Also, reading at 2?  Freak!</p>
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		<title>By: china blue</title>
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		<dc:creator>china blue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:42:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think I fall into the &#039;geek&#039; category: I&#039;ve never considered myself to be a genius or prodigy of any kind, but I was reading at 2, writing my first stories at 4 or 5, and being treated as a &#039;human dictionary&#039; by the other kids in my class, and in Mensa at 13 with a 172 IQ. Then there was the time I made up my own language. How geeky is that?

I still had friends, but they definitely seemed separate from me, and I was perceived as a bit geeky - good at something (languages) - but still able to make friends easily and be seen as worth hanging out with. Just not &#039;cool&#039;. So, definitely not a nerd, certainly not a dork. Being a geek isn&#039;t so bad. After all, the geek shall inherit the earth...

&lt;em&gt;china blue&#039;s last blog post..&lt;a href=&#039;http://thegirlwiththegoldenmind.blogspot.com/2008/01/to-get-comfortable-i-like-to-touch-my.html&#039; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&quot;To Get Comfortable, I Like to Touch My Nipples...&quot;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think I fall into the &#8216;geek&#8217; category: I&#8217;ve never considered myself to be a genius or prodigy of any kind, but I was reading at 2, writing my first stories at 4 or 5, and being treated as a &#8216;human dictionary&#8217; by the other kids in my class, and in Mensa at 13 with a 172 IQ. Then there was the time I made up my own language. How geeky is that?</p>
<p>I still had friends, but they definitely seemed separate from me, and I was perceived as a bit geeky &#8211; good at something (languages) &#8211; but still able to make friends easily and be seen as worth hanging out with. Just not &#8216;cool&#8217;. So, definitely not a nerd, certainly not a dork. Being a geek isn&#8217;t so bad. After all, the geek shall inherit the earth&#8230;</p>
<p><em>china blue&#8217;s last blog post..<a href='http://thegirlwiththegoldenmind.blogspot.com/2008/01/to-get-comfortable-i-like-to-touch-my.html' rel="nofollow">&#8220;To Get Comfortable, I Like to Touch My Nipples&#8230;&#8221;</a></em></p>
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		<title>By: T</title>
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		<dc:creator>T</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 06:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Susan, mandilee - Thanks. Don&#039;t be strangers.

Smash - agree with everything.  Including not all nerds will change the world, although many do.  Sometimes the nerd&#039;s social difficulties  that come about from his genius are so out of control that they outweigh the benefits of his brain.  Two great movies that illustrate this wonderfully are Proof (with Anthony Hopkins, Gyllenhall and Paltrow) and Beautiful Mind (with with pre-bash-you-face-with-a-phone Russell Crowe.

Kaz - So true.  It reminds me of a quote: &quot;just because no one understands you doesn&#039;t make you an artist or a genius&quot;  I think it applies to frustrated geeks most of all.

Bobby Rio - I dunno, bro.  I disagree.  Nerds may not really care, but geeks do want to be cool.  They may think they&#039;ll never fit into the big crowd and try to be rebel by affecting a deliberate form of anti-cool, but trust me, they fall into the same wannabe cool trappings within their little groups too.  Take one group of geeks, the hipsters.  They pride themselves on being quirky anti-conformists just because they don&#039;t shop at the Gap or wear suits, but they watch the same movies (right now Juno), subscribe to the same politics (Go Obama!), live in the same socially accepted cool neighborhoods (Williamsburg?  Greenpoint?  Austin TX?), validate themselves by possessions (Ipods and Vespas instead of SUVs), shop at American Apparel and vintage stores...geeks are as guilty of the same approval-seeking herd behavior as the &quot;mainstream&quot; crowd they disdain, they&#039;re just less intellectually honest about it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Susan, mandilee &#8211; Thanks. Don&#8217;t be strangers.</p>
<p>Smash &#8211; agree with everything.  Including not all nerds will change the world, although many do.  Sometimes the nerd&#8217;s social difficulties  that come about from his genius are so out of control that they outweigh the benefits of his brain.  Two great movies that illustrate this wonderfully are Proof (with Anthony Hopkins, Gyllenhall and Paltrow) and Beautiful Mind (with with pre-bash-you-face-with-a-phone Russell Crowe.</p>
<p>Kaz &#8211; So true.  It reminds me of a quote: &#8220;just because no one understands you doesn&#8217;t make you an artist or a genius&#8221;  I think it applies to frustrated geeks most of all.</p>
<p>Bobby Rio &#8211; I dunno, bro.  I disagree.  Nerds may not really care, but geeks do want to be cool.  They may think they&#8217;ll never fit into the big crowd and try to be rebel by affecting a deliberate form of anti-cool, but trust me, they fall into the same wannabe cool trappings within their little groups too.  Take one group of geeks, the hipsters.  They pride themselves on being quirky anti-conformists just because they don&#8217;t shop at the Gap or wear suits, but they watch the same movies (right now Juno), subscribe to the same politics (Go Obama!), live in the same socially accepted cool neighborhoods (Williamsburg?  Greenpoint?  Austin TX?), validate themselves by possessions (Ipods and Vespas instead of SUVs), shop at American Apparel and vintage stores&#8230;geeks are as guilty of the same approval-seeking herd behavior as the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; crowd they disdain, they&#8217;re just less intellectually honest about it.</p>
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		<title>By: Bobby Rio</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bobby Rio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good stuff.. and accurate in description of all three.  Although I sort of think dorks try the hardest to be cool.. they just aren&#039;t.  Nerds and geeks are in their own world and don&#039;t even care about being cool</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good stuff.. and accurate in description of all three.  Although I sort of think dorks try the hardest to be cool.. they just aren&#8217;t.  Nerds and geeks are in their own world and don&#8217;t even care about being cool</p>
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		<title>By: Kaz Maslanka</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kaz Maslanka</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And then some of us have delusions of nerd-hood while merely being a frustrated geek.

Peace out
:)

&lt;em&gt;Kaz Maslanka&#039;s last blog post..&lt;a href=&#039;http://mathematicalpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/01/axiomatic-poems.html&#039; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Axiomatic Poems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And then some of us have delusions of nerd-hood while merely being a frustrated geek.</p>
<p>Peace out<br />
 <img src='http://therawness.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><em>Kaz Maslanka&#8217;s last blog post..<a href='http://mathematicalpoetry.blogspot.com/2008/01/axiomatic-poems.html' rel="nofollow">Axiomatic Poems</a></em></p>
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