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		<title>THE OTHER UNCANNY VALLEY [FOOD]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought that things might need a little updating around here. So I wanted to post a graph that came to me after watching 

this video. 
The idea of the uncanny valley definitely applies to food. I ignored the entire &#8220;moving&#8221; line because it radically diverges from the &#8220;still&#8221; line with respect to food. Here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2009/10/the-other-uncanny-valley-food/</link>
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		<title>FAVORITE NEW &#8220;MUSIC VIDEOS&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey remember that we have a website? I thought not, but I won&#8217;t let that stop me.
I just wanted to let everyone have a roundup of my favorite new &#8220;music videos.&#8221; These are certainly not official music videos and are often more videos with music soundtracks but I hope you enjoy&#8230;
Bathtub IV by Keith Loutit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2009/09/favorite-new-music-videos/</link>
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		<title>GAUSSIAN STEP MISMATCH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I run into this weird error all the time in Gaussian when doing optimization or frequency restarts. This is a big problem for me because a lot of times I run these on a large number of processors, but in a queue with a relatively short max wall time. Searching the web for this error [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2009/03/gaussian-step-mismatch/</link>
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		<title>GROMACS SUBSET STATISTICS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a method for generating data in gromacs programs which require the system to be composed of only those molecules or atoms on which statistics will be run.
Let&#8217;s say you have a system composed of N different species and you&#8217;ve got your xtc trajectory file from the run. Then let&#8217;s say you want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2009/03/gromacs-subset-statistics/</link>
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		<title>POOR MAN&#8217;S WHITE RUSSIAN [COCKTAIL RECIPE] UPDATED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who doesn&#8217;t like a good White Russian? Well Khalua is a damn expensive way to make your cream taste like sweet coffee. Thus I have concocted a simulacrum that would put a smile on The Dude&#8217;s face.
First you have to be in Rhode Island or it&#8217;s immediate vicinity because you need coffee syrup (it might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2009/03/poor-mans-white-russian-cocktail-recipe/</link>
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		<title>YOUR POLITICAL AFFILIATIONS ON TWITTER [POLITICS AND TWITTER]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting roundup at HubSpot of characteristics of Twitter users that correspond to more/less followers than the average number of followers. The one that caught my eye was followers by political affiliation. It corresponds to my earlier posts about politicians who use twitter and the observation that Republican politicians seem to twitter more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2009/03/your-political-affiliations-on-twitter-politics-and-twitter/</link>
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		<title>TEXTBOOKS AND BLOGS [MEDIA CROSS SEEDING]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite subjects and probably most briefly studied in college was Economics. It is one of the courses that I think everyone should take at least a little of or should read up on in their own time. That said I like to keep a couple Economics blogs in my RSS reader just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2009/03/textbooks-and-blogs-media-cross-seeding/</link>
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		<title>YOUR GOVT ON TWITTER AGAIN [SOCIAL MEDIA AND GOVT]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A while ago I wrote a post about government types on Twitter. What surprised me at the time was that Republicans seemed to outnumber Democrats on Twitter. A blogger from the UK, Mat Morrison, confirms my supposition with a nice map. He also brings up a point I hadn&#8217;t even considered. There is almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2009/01/your-government-on-twitter-again-social-media-and-govt/</link>
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		<title>TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2008 [A GUEST POST BY JGRONBERG]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The lovely and talented jgronberg who is a sometimes vdov reader and good friend has sent out his yearly and very exclusive email album review. With his gracious permission we are posting it here (mostly to shame ourselves for the lack of posting or any end of the year lists this year). Consider yourselves lucky&#8230;

Time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2009/01/top-10-albums-of-2008-a-guest-post-by-jgronberg/</link>
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		<title>HOW NOT TO REMOVE PEOPLE FROM YOUR ROOM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1) Listen to them try to sell you various products they&#8217;re working on
2) Actually sign up for any of those products
3) Invite people over who need to reinstall N &#62; 2 computers
4) Have absolutely nothing else to do
Merry day after Christmas. Cheers.
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		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2008/12/how-not-to-remove-people-from-your-room/</link>
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		<title>DANCERBOT 5000 AND A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since I have been home in Indy and driving around in my brother&#8217;s car which doesn&#8217;t play nice with iPhone tunes I have been listening to a bunch of satellite radio while cruising around. This coincides to hearing the Killers about once an hour. I just wanted to point out they seem to have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2008/12/dacerbot-5000-and-a-merry-christmas-to-all/</link>
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		<title>YOUR HOME NETWORK</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been giving a lot of thought to how crappy my home network has become. Of course this has gotten me to think about what my ideal home network would look like. So, for all of you out there, let&#8217;s do a little thought experiment. Say you have the money to put together your &#8220;perfect&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2008/12/your-home-network/</link>
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		<title>TEST YOUR MPI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It sometimes amazes me how a lot of people are much happier to ask stupid questions than to just do the basic work themselves, maybe even learning something in the process. In the Gromacs community, the past couple weeks have been a great time for some nice examples of this. Version 4 came out, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2008/11/test-your-mpi/</link>
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		<title>A RANT (ALITALIA SUCKS)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah it&#8217;s time to go on a bit of a rant here. I learned a number of important travel tips while I was trying to get back to the states from Italy. They are:

Flying random airlines localized to a specific country is usually a very bad idea
&#8230; Especially when those airlines are localized to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2008/11/a-rant-alitalia-sucks/</link>
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		<title>TRIP TO EUROPE!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally cross the pond tomorrow. Heading for Cambridge, London and Teddington in the UK and then off to Perugia and Rome in Italy. Get to spend 2 weeks over there so I&#8217;m very excited. See Jason and Mica and get to see my sister in Italy.
Oh yeah, and there&#8217;s that pesky thing called work [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2008/10/trip-to-europe/</link>
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		<title>VINDICATION?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been asked by the few people who have taken the time to stomach some of my harsher critiques of our current form of Capitalism over the past few years whether or not I see the current financial crisis as some sort of vindication of my ideas.  It has taken me some time to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2008/10/vindication/</link>
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		<title>RUSSIA AND GEORGIA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been asked by many to share my thoughts, and though I’ve been resisting, I thought I’d say a few things about the recent and ongoing conflict between Russia and Georgia… and the US (I guess we did get ourselves inappropriately mucked up in this).
First of all I’d like to take a moment to welcome [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2008/08/russia-and-georgia/</link>
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		<title>YOUR GOVERNMENT ON TWITTER</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best things I have learned in the past week is that there are actually an impressive number of Congressmen on Twitter. The other great thing is that a lot of them are personally twittering rather than having staffers do it for them. There is a nice nice wiki with the names of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2008/08/your-government-on-twitter/</link>
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		<title>EXPLAIN THIS [UPDATED]</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few minutes ago I was making chocolate milk (yes, I know, I&#8217;m 5 years old, feel free to insert witty banter). Well, as I was stirring I realized that the frequency of the sound I was hearing as the spoon hit the side of the glass decreased with increasing rotational velocity of the fluid. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2008/08/explain-this/</link>
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		<title>SITE NOTES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few things seem to have gone wrong with the Wordpress 2.6 upgrade. They are,

Permalinks broke completely, still haven&#8217;t fixed this. For now, just using an ID call (static links to articles are nonfunctioning right now).
RSS feed also seems to have gone down the drain. This is due to the same bug in 2.6 that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vdov.net/index.php/2008/07/site-notes/</link>
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