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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536</id><updated>2009-07-10T17:36:19+00:00</updated><title type="text">MCDSPOT</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/blog.html" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25" /><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>3292</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><thespringbox:skin xmlns:thespringbox="http://www.thespringbox.com/dtds/thespringbox-1.0.dtd">http://feeds.feedburner.com/mcdspot?format=skin</thespringbox:skin><geo:lat>32.354888</geo:lat><geo:long>-86.271616</geo:long><link rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/mcdspot" type="application/atom+xml" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><entry><title type="text">Ethnolinguistic.map.of.China [Flickr]</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/KL8ZMSoMQ5E/" /><author><name>mcdowell</name><uri>http://www.flickr.com/people/mcd/</uri></author><updated>2009-07-10T10:36:19-07:00</updated><id>tag:flickr.com,2005:/photo/3707777486</id><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mcd/"&gt;mcdowell&lt;/a&gt; posted a photo:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcd/3707777486/" title="Ethnolinguistic.map.of.China"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2466/3707777486_ac91084a9f_m.jpg" width="240" height="201" alt="Ethnolinguistic.map.of.China" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/KL8ZMSoMQ5E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="enclosure" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2466/3707777486_df896b9b6e_o.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><dc:date.Taken xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">2009-07-10T12:36:19-08:00</dc:date.Taken><feedburner:origLink>http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcd/3707777486/</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><title type="text">Where.the.wild.things.are [Flickr]</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/3gdzHIr8uKI/" /><author><name>mcdowell</name><uri>http://www.flickr.com/people/mcd/</uri></author><updated>2009-07-08T15:09:42-07:00</updated><id>tag:flickr.com,2005:/photo/3701794047</id><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mcd/"&gt;mcdowell&lt;/a&gt; posted a photo:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcd/3701794047/" title="Where.the.wild.things.are"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2376/3701794047_a5b06eae9e_m.jpg" width="240" height="168" alt="Where.the.wild.things.are" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/3gdzHIr8uKI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="enclosure" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2376/3701794047_0bce10c476_o.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><dc:date.Taken xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">2009-07-08T17:09:42-08:00</dc:date.Taken><feedburner:origLink>http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcd/3701794047/</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><title type="text">only in Alabama [Flickr]</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/osXUtUL4JMk/" /><author><name>mcdowell</name><uri>http://www.flickr.com/people/mcd/</uri></author><updated>2009-06-21T09:25:22-07:00</updated><id>tag:flickr.com,2005:/photo/3647547980</id><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mcd/"&gt;mcdowell&lt;/a&gt; posted a photo:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcd/3647547980/" title="only in Alabama"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3367/3647547980_7a4778c2a4_m.jpg" width="157" height="240" alt="only in Alabama" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I took this near Flomaton, AL&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/osXUtUL4JMk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="enclosure" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3367/3647547980_20e972a16a_o.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><dc:date.Taken xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">2009-06-14T13:21:28-08:00</dc:date.Taken><feedburner:origLink>http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcd/3647547980/</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><title type="text">John filters some water [Flickr]</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/lI1Xwd1iUHs/" /><author><name>mcdowell</name><uri>http://www.flickr.com/people/mcd/</uri></author><updated>2009-06-21T09:14:40-07:00</updated><id>tag:flickr.com,2005:/photo/3646708367</id><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mcd/"&gt;mcdowell&lt;/a&gt; posted a photo:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcd/3646708367/" title="John filters some water"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2460/3646708367_18b37eb065_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="John filters some water" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/lI1Xwd1iUHs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="enclosure" href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2460/3646708367_010c537b43_o.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><dc:date.Taken xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">2009-06-20T08:56:47-08:00</dc:date.Taken><feedburner:origLink>http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcd/3646708367/</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><title type="text">Chillaxin by the stream [Flickr]</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/Q_jGIlGd-eU/" /><author><name>mcdowell</name><uri>http://www.flickr.com/people/mcd/</uri></author><updated>2009-06-21T09:14:24-07:00</updated><id>tag:flickr.com,2005:/photo/3646707595</id><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/mcd/"&gt;mcdowell&lt;/a&gt; posted a photo:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcd/3646707595/" title="Chillaxin by the stream"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3574/3646707595_000c025cf7_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="Chillaxin by the stream" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/Q_jGIlGd-eU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="enclosure" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3574/3646707595_f8c75f8cc0_o.jpg" length="0" type="image/jpeg" /><dc:date.Taken xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">2009-06-20T08:56:57-08:00</dc:date.Taken><feedburner:origLink>http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcd/3646707595/</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-3077079351788923238</id><published>2008-06-23T03:01:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-23T03:02:12.079-04:00</updated><title type="text">ahem</title><content type="html">Folks, this blog has &lt;b&gt;permanently&lt;/b&gt; moved. Go to www.mcdowellcrook.com/blog
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Thanks!&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=FzjemmYL5FY:GCVf9D9i3e8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?i=FzjemmYL5FY:GCVf9D9i3e8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=FzjemmYL5FY:GCVf9D9i3e8:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/FzjemmYL5FY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/FzjemmYL5FY/ahem.html" title="ahem" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/3077079351788923238" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/3077079351788923238" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/ahem.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-2007363634999896667</id><published>2008-06-10T15:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-10T15:26:31.377-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="weather" /><title type="text">[this is storm]</title><content type="html">&lt;a align="left" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/images/norama.jpg" class="highslide" onclick="return hs.expand(this, {captionId: 'caption1'})"&gt;
 &lt;img src="http://mcdowellcrook.com/images/norama.jpg" alt="Highslide JS"
  title="Click to enlarge" height="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=7238962&amp;size=lg"&gt;via.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=kVU-gJTL-2Y:bd3gPRbW3sU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?i=kVU-gJTL-2Y:bd3gPRbW3sU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=kVU-gJTL-2Y:bd3gPRbW3sU:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/kVU-gJTL-2Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/kVU-gJTL-2Y/this-is-storm.html" title="[this is storm]" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/2007363634999896667" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/2007363634999896667" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/this-is-storm.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-7360075995038611023</id><published>2008-06-10T15:23:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-10T15:24:42.220-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="silly" /><title type="text">wow</title><content type="html">Something tells me &lt;a href="http://www.bierstick.com/BierGear.aspx"&gt;the Bierstick&lt;/a&gt; is going to bring little but pain and misery into the world.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=IZQ8O58juN4:Ee4cFGdlfLg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?i=IZQ8O58juN4:Ee4cFGdlfLg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=IZQ8O58juN4:Ee4cFGdlfLg:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/IZQ8O58juN4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/IZQ8O58juN4/wow.html" title="wow" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/7360075995038611023" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/7360075995038611023" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/wow.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-2051063533079698741</id><published>2008-06-09T23:42:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-10T08:27:29.702-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="music" /><title type="text">Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood cover Portishead's "The Rip"</title><content type="html">&lt;embed src="http://static.ning.com/wastecentral/widgets/video/flvplayer/flvplayer.swf?v=3.3.4%3A5414" FlashVars="config_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.waste-central.com%2Fvideo%2Fvideo%2FshowPlayerConfig%3Fid%3D2026864%253AVideo%253A227120%26x%3DG0uQ1coenjMMNE3xLPhZ8uniKQzjr0O0&amp;amp;video_smoothing=on&amp;amp;autoplay=off" width="448" height="364" scale="noscale" wmode="transparent" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=YNEULQpt90o:2NJ1vZtSjdc:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?i=YNEULQpt90o:2NJ1vZtSjdc:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=YNEULQpt90o:2NJ1vZtSjdc:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/YNEULQpt90o" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/YNEULQpt90o/thom-yorke-and-jonny-greenwood-cover.html" title="Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood cover Portishead's &quot;The Rip&quot;" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/2051063533079698741" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/2051063533079698741" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/thom-yorke-and-jonny-greenwood-cover.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-727071246695912683</id><published>2008-06-09T22:49:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T22:53:50.616-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="music" /><title type="text">Tranquil and serene until he runs out of supplies</title><content type="html">&lt;script src="http://mcdowellcrook.com/songplayer/audio-player.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://mcdowellcrook.com/songplayer/player.swf" id="audio_player_206" height="24" width="290"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://mcdowellcrook.com/songplayer/player.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value="playerID=206&amp;amp;soundFile=http://mcdowellcrook.com/songplayer/mango.mp3"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="high"&gt;&lt;param name="menu" value="false"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;      
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"The Mango Song" from Phish's &lt;i&gt;A Picture of Nectar&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Interestingly enough, there was a time this song meant a great deal to me. I still find it joyous.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/rIF7OQAkOWo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/rIF7OQAkOWo/tranquil-and-serene-until-he-runs-out.html" title="Tranquil and serene until he runs out of supplies" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/727071246695912683" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/727071246695912683" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/tranquil-and-serene-until-he-runs-out.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-4339221701973059298</id><published>2008-06-09T13:16:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-09T13:18:30.474-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="energy" /><title type="text">ouch</title><content type="html">According to the New York Times, people in &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/06/09/business/20080609_GAS_GRAPHIC.html#"&gt;Wilcox County, Alabama spend the highest percentage of their income on gasoline&lt;/a&gt; in the country.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=A-quWpQz7I0:hXc8DzZ3wZw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?i=A-quWpQz7I0:hXc8DzZ3wZw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=A-quWpQz7I0:hXc8DzZ3wZw:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/A-quWpQz7I0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/A-quWpQz7I0/ouch.html" title="ouch" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/4339221701973059298" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/4339221701973059298" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/ouch.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-5610343482431251005</id><published>2008-06-06T13:48:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-06T13:48:49.057-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="books" /><title type="text">All hail the Disco Handbook</title><content type="html">&lt;object codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" id="doc_344920809575962" name="doc_344920809575962" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" align="middle" height="500" width="100%"&gt;  &lt;param name="movie" value="http://documents.scribd.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=3242075&amp;access_key=key-13hfqxfrsfz761nrnf7o&amp;page=&amp;version=1&amp;auto_size=true"&gt;   &lt;param name="quality" value="high"&gt;   &lt;param name="play" value="true"&gt;  &lt;param name="loop" value="true"&gt;   &lt;param name="scale" value="showall"&gt;  &lt;param name="wmode" value="opaque"&gt;   &lt;param name="devicefont" value="false"&gt;  &lt;param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff"&gt;   &lt;param name="menu" value="true"&gt;  &lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;   &lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;   &lt;param name="salign" value=""&gt;  &lt;embed src="http://documents.scribd.com/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=3242075&amp;access_key=key-13hfqxfrsfz761nrnf7o&amp;page=&amp;version=1&amp;auto_size=true" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" play="true" loop="true" scale="showall" wmode="opaque" devicefont="false" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="doc_344920809575962_object" menu="true" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" salign="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" height="500" width="100%"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt; &lt;/object&gt;&lt;div style="font-size:10px;text-align:center;width:100%"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/3242075/The-Disco-Handbook"&gt;The Disco Handbook&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/upload"&gt;Upload a Document to Scribd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="display:none"&gt; Read this document on Scribd: &lt;a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/3242075/The-Disco-Handbook"&gt;The Disco Handbook&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/Cuhsf1BN4HM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/Cuhsf1BN4HM/all-hail-disco-handbook.html" title="All hail the Disco Handbook" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/5610343482431251005" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/5610343482431251005" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/all-hail-disco-handbook.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-8753632765390119467</id><published>2008-06-05T14:15:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-05T14:16:58.958-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="music" /><title type="text">moment</title><content type="html">&lt;script src="http://mcdowellcrook.com/songplayer/audio-player.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
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&lt;br&gt;
&lt;p&gt;"Snorkel" from Leo Kottke's &lt;i&gt;One Guitar, No Vocals&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/V4g1Do20qd4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/V4g1Do20qd4/moment.html" title="moment" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/8753632765390119467" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/8753632765390119467" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/moment.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-2347018571909947906</id><published>2008-06-04T17:33:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-04T17:34:27.005-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="quotes" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="politics" /><title type="text">quote of the day</title><content type="html">&lt;blockquote&gt;"Right now there are more McCainocrats than there are Obamapublicans."&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-- NPR news analayst&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/nIgR73E2Bks" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/nIgR73E2Bks/quote-of-day.html" title="quote of the day" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/2347018571909947906" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/2347018571909947906" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/quote-of-day.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-1096548490795963247</id><published>2008-06-04T11:59:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-04T12:01:44.269-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="photography" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="nature" /><title type="text">amazing</title><content type="html">&lt;a align="left" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/images/bluice.jpg" class="highslide" onclick="return hs.expand(this, {captionId: 'caption1'})"&gt;
 &lt;img src="http://mcdowellcrook.com/images/bluice.jpg" alt="Highslide JS"
  title="Click to enlarge" height="200"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/Y_QyxB-eTbc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/Y_QyxB-eTbc/amazing.html" title="amazing" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/1096548490795963247" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/1096548490795963247" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/amazing.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-4957485803239278948</id><published>2008-06-04T11:58:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-04T11:58:54.268-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="history" /><title type="text">symbolic</title><content type="html">You too can &lt;a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/mayacode/translate.html"&gt;crack the Mayan hieroglyph code.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/sOJ6S3fcXqU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/sOJ6S3fcXqU/symbolic.html" title="symbolic" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/4957485803239278948" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/4957485803239278948" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/symbolic.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-2241497619070681630</id><published>2008-06-04T11:41:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-05T22:36:37.851-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="funny" /><title type="text">a bad case of the Mondays</title><content type="html">Be glad you don't work in an office &lt;a href="http://smotri.com/video/view/?id=v440443402c"&gt;with this guy.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;
UPDATE: now we know why &lt;a href="http://gorillamask.net/gm_media.php?show_page=video&amp;page_id=17065"&gt;he got so angry.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/DwK-ZAfuxsI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/DwK-ZAfuxsI/bad-case-of-mondays.html" title="a bad case of the Mondays" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/2241497619070681630" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/2241497619070681630" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/bad-case-of-mondays.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-1215511584106719674</id><published>2008-06-03T23:22:00.003-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-03T23:36:43.250-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="politics" /><title type="text">not super at all</title><content type="html">Now that this is all over, I have one small message to the superdelegates who held out until days before the primary season ended.&lt;P&gt;
&lt;H1&gt;YOU SUCK&lt;/H1&gt;
This could have been over MONTHS ago but for your spinelessness, your egotastic mediamongering desire for attention. You weren't sure where the candidates stood on important issues, you say? Try listening to one of the &lt;b&gt;twenty-plus&lt;/b&gt; debates that can readily be found on YouTube--try reading cnn or msnbc for countless exhaustive reports of their consistent stands made on various topics. Try TALKING to them--you're freaking superdelegates! How on earth, at this late hour, could you have anything left to decide?&lt;p&gt;
The truth is, you didn't. Either you were too afraid to piss off one candidate by voting on another, or too politically emasculated to vote on your principles. And thanks to you, the Democrats have been &lt;i&gt;rent asunder&lt;/i&gt; and are weaker now than they were before. Yes yes the whole system of superdelegates needs to be throw out of the window like sushi gone bad, but who knew that you could have created a situation like this? Who knew the individual delegates might &lt;b&gt;refrain from making a decision&lt;/b&gt;, thereby fouling up the whole process? Who, with that amount of political power, doesn't use their position and intelligence to find out who to vote for as soon as possible? Is it that hard?  &lt;p&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/ahsluwksYe4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/ahsluwksYe4/not-super-at-all.html" title="not super at all" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/1215511584106719674" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/1215511584106719674" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/not-super-at-all.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-879268094319961581</id><published>2008-06-03T17:44:00.002-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-03T18:02:13.887-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="maps" /><title type="text">great map of the post WWII world</title><content type="html">&lt;embed src="http://mcdowellcrook.com/zoom/zoomifyViewer.swf" name="theMovie" height="450" width="600" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" menu="false" flashvars="zoomifyImagePath=http://mcdowellcrook.com/zoom/1942/"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;

Lots of interesting designations. Hebrewland? United States of Europe?&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/zqiKARg1W9Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/zqiKARg1W9Q/great-map.html" title="great map of the post WWII world" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/879268094319961581" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/879268094319961581" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/great-map.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-3151889682809167563</id><published>2008-06-03T14:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-03T15:00:07.344-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="bike" /><title type="text">bad</title><content type="html">&lt;img src="http://mcdowellcrook.com/images/carcyclists.jpg"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=8418266"&gt;Drunk Driver Crashes Into Bike Race in Mexico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=yGF2wc8Amec:GEdhNFosRSM:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?i=yGF2wc8Amec:GEdhNFosRSM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=yGF2wc8Amec:GEdhNFosRSM:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/yGF2wc8Amec" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/yGF2wc8Amec/hahahah.html" title="hahahah" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/4280372962620725961" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/4280372962620725961" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/hahahah.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-6224337670135386430</id><published>2008-06-03T13:46:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-03T13:47:44.952-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="home" /><title type="text">beyond maps</title><content type="html">Looking for a new home? &lt;a href="http://snapshot.trulia.com/"&gt;Try this slick website.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=9W38VWqVELs:ePa6PRAuyws:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?i=9W38VWqVELs:ePa6PRAuyws:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=9W38VWqVELs:ePa6PRAuyws:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/9W38VWqVELs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/9W38VWqVELs/beyond-maps.html" title="beyond maps" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/6224337670135386430" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/6224337670135386430" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/beyond-maps.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-1911749318959620970</id><published>2008-06-03T13:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-03T13:45:34.719-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="theonion" /><title type="text">finally</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/03/the_onion_movie_trailer_finall.html"&gt;The Onion movie is coming out&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/C4rSPYClJTY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/C4rSPYClJTY/finally.html" title="finally" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/1911749318959620970" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/1911749318959620970" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/finally.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-7990691746302585804</id><published>2008-06-03T13:10:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-03T13:10:40.336-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="art" /><title type="text">this guy is good</title><content type="html">&lt;object width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6iC3b5JnSIE&amp;hl=en"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6iC3b5JnSIE&amp;hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/kn10eedsT7U" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/kn10eedsT7U/this-guy-is-good.html" title="this guy is good" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/7990691746302585804" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/7990691746302585804" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/this-guy-is-good.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-7344125030111258854</id><published>2008-06-03T13:08:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-03T13:09:20.269-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="war" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="history" /><title type="text">interesting historical tidbit of the day</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%A4ge_Musik"&gt;Schräge Musik&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/lZpO9dzxUCk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/lZpO9dzxUCk/interesting-historical-tidbit-of-day.html" title="interesting historical tidbit of the day" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/7344125030111258854" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/7344125030111258854" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/interesting-historical-tidbit-of-day.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-725972467861980162</id><published>2008-06-03T13:06:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-03T13:16:42.452-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="education" /><title type="text">for English majors</title><content type="html">&lt;a href="http://tencartrain.com/?p=115"&gt;Try this&lt;/a&gt; if your degree just isn't working out for you.&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/pjHXDaVnZTE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/pjHXDaVnZTE/for-english-majors.html" title="for English majors" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/725972467861980162" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/725972467861980162" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/for-english-majors.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-340778225791376228</id><published>2008-06-03T13:03:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-03T13:03:52.924-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="internet" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="books" /><title type="text">sly lit</title><content type="html">If you'd rather be reading at work than working, &lt;a href="http://www.readatwork.com/"&gt;try this site.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=GCXrldyrHzU:tYNWw8hfbcA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?i=GCXrldyrHzU:tYNWw8hfbcA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=GCXrldyrHzU:tYNWw8hfbcA:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/GCXrldyrHzU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/GCXrldyrHzU/sly-lit.html" title="sly lit" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/340778225791376228" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/340778225791376228" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/sly-lit.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-1748532991888270534</id><published>2008-06-03T13:01:00.001-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-03T13:02:34.040-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="family" /><title type="text">sneezing trees</title><content type="html">I can't wait for my son to start asking me "why" questions. I'm probably going to give him a few answers &lt;a href="http://softwarcraft.com/2008/05/26/ask-calvins-dad/"&gt;like Calvin's dad did.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/2WYUU_NNTfA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/2WYUU_NNTfA/sneezing-trees.html" title="sneezing trees" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/1748532991888270534" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/1748532991888270534" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/06/sneezing-trees.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-5594685694168299732</id><published>2008-05-31T01:09:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-05-31T01:10:23.686-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="film" /><title type="text">Burn After Reading</title><content type="html">The new Cohen brothers film &lt;a href="http://www.guesswhichmovie.com/news/322"&gt;looks fun.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=Yf8FKeN3qno:b6E4Tdr7NPU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?i=Yf8FKeN3qno:b6E4Tdr7NPU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?a=Yf8FKeN3qno:b6E4Tdr7NPU:yIl2AUoC8zA"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/mcdspot?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/mcdspot/~4/Yf8FKeN3qno" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mcdspot/~3/Yf8FKeN3qno/burn-after-reading.html" title="Burn After Reading" /><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://mcdowellcrook.com/rss/atom.xml" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/5594685694168299732" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3906536/posts/default/5594685694168299732" /><author><name>mcd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01248444011536733399</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><feedburner:origLink>http://mcdowellcrook.com/2008/05/burn-after-reading.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906536.post-2222318123712005945</id><published>2008-05-31T00:04:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2008-06-03T13:06:02.166-04:00</updated><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="history" /><title type="text">old school</title><content type="html">Another impossibly large photo to keep your hard drive healthy. This one's of Montgomery, &lt;strike&gt;date unknown&lt;/strike&gt; taken in 1916. &lt;i&gt;(Thanks guys)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;

UPDATE: I got the photos &lt;a href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/panoramic_photo/pncyc.html"&gt;here.&lt;/a&gt; Just do a 'Montgomery' search.&lt;p&gt;

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