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</description><title>fit to sprintf</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @midfield)</generator><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Arbol Navidad “Comecocos” Pac Man Xmas tree Madrid...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300"  id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9j22cnSfE4U?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&amp;wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Arbol Navidad "Comecocos" Pac Man Xmas tree Madrid"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Arbol Navidad “Comecocos” Pac Man Xmas tree Madrid (via &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/user/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/21352780</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/21352780</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:39:04 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"The mortgage lending crisis “is the most serious problem that has faced this country since crack..."</title><description>“The mortgage lending crisis “is the most serious problem that has faced this country since crack cocaine,” the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, told a group of about 60 residents of the Canarsie neighborhood Monday night.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/the-lending-crisis-as-crack-epidemic/index.html?ex=1355029200&amp;en=de5697f14b30461b&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss"&gt;The Lending Crisis as Crack Epidemic - City Room - Metro - New York Times Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/21352691</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/21352691</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:38:17 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Kristof Kintera .:. www.kristofkintera.com .:.</title><description>          &lt;embed src="http://www.kristofkintera.com/video-flv/coitus-bizzarus.swf" quality=high pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kristofkintera.com/pages-work/coitus-bizzarus/coitus-bizzarus-video.htm"&gt;Kristof Kintera .:. www.kristofkintera.com .:.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/21352610</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/21352610</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:37:47 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"“A recent trip to Starbucks got me entered into a sweepstakes for $1000.00 USD. While perusing..."</title><description>“&lt;p&gt;“A recent trip to Starbucks got me entered into a sweepstakes for $1000.00 USD. While perusing the sweepstakes rules, I came across are very amusing loophole in the rules that will make sure that any Canadian who wins must first pass a math test to claim their prize! "The line is under section 4, about 10 lines down. It reads:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;” If a resident of Canada is selected as a winner, they will be required to correctly answer, without assistance of any kind, whether mechanical or otherwise, a timed, mathematical skill-testing question, to be administered by Marden- Kane, Inc. either by mail, telephone, e-mail, or fax (at its sole discretion) before the awarding of the prize.&lt;/p&gt;”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/04/starbucks-sweepstake.html"&gt;Starbucks sweepstakes requires Canadians to answer math question. - Boing Boing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20836896</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20836896</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:55:16 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Bending a Soccer Ball – Mathematically, by Michael Trott</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/TbDtP0i8n2ev27nzWws8H7O5_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mathematicaguidebooks.org/soccer/"&gt;Bending a Soccer Ball – Mathematically, by Michael Trott&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20570659</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20570659</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:57:44 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Poignant, amusing, disturbing, hunger-inducing? I don’t...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="334"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/E2Fjilze0eI&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/E2Fjilze0eI&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="334"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kottke.org/remainder/07/11/14574.html"&gt;Poignant, amusing, disturbing, hunger-inducing? I don’t know what to make of… (kottke.org)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20570626</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20570626</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:56:53 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"In the Senate, the Sergeant-at-Arms had a moment in the media spotlight in 1988, when then Senate..."</title><description>“In the Senate, the Sergeant-at-Arms had a moment in the media spotlight in 1988, when then Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd (D-WV) made a motion on the Senate floor that Senators absent from the floor be arrested and brought to the chamber. The absentees were deliberately stalling the consideration of campaign finance legislation by preventing a quorum from being achieved. By vote of the Senate, the Sgt.-at-Arms was handed arrest warrants and instructed to find and escort the absentees to the chamber. Senator Robert Packwood (R-OR) was the first “captured,” and forcibly brought to the floor by the Sgt.-at-Arms and several of his plainclothes men. Packwood’s presence registered a quorum; no other Senators had to be sought.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.c-span.org/questions/weekly12.asp"&gt;C-SPAN’s Capitol Questions&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20563034</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20563034</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:30:54 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Tiger Woods farted (via )</title><description>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tiger Woods farted (via &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/user/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20486104</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20486104</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:21:14 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Overconfident Cyclist Crashes Just Before Finish Line (via )</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300"  id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_EaJMr26F5w?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&amp;wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Overconfident Cyclist Crashes Just Before Finish Line"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Overconfident Cyclist Crashes Just Before Finish Line (via &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/user/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20481382</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20481382</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:57:39 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Crash before finish line (via )</title><description>&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Crash before finish line (via &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/user/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20481359</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20481359</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:57:03 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Goalkeeper Blunders (via )</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300"  id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-1eGamKDTPQ?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&amp;wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Goalkeeper Blunders"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Goalkeeper Blunders (via &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/user/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20481295</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20481295</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:55:44 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Portland Winter Hawks Teddy Bear Toss 11/25/07 (via )</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300"  id="youtube_iframe" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/oPS6KoAUXtU?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https://safe.txmblr.com&amp;wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen title="Portland Winter Hawks Teddy Bear Toss 11/25/07"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Portland Winter Hawks Teddy Bear Toss 11/25/07 (via &lt;a href="http://youtube.com/user/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20480975</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20480975</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:51:35 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>FOODPAIRING</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.foodpairing.be/"&gt;FOODPAIRING&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20418066</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20418066</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:43:15 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"I thought my hotel neighbors were playing awesome music all night long; then I realized the sound..."</title><description>“&lt;p&gt;I thought my hotel neighbors were playing awesome music all night long; then I realized the sound was coming from the iPod in my jacket.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;about 17 hours ago from web&lt;/p&gt;”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/scottsimpson/statuses/450374202"&gt;Twitter / Scott Simpson: I thought my hotel neighbor…&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20418050</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20418050</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:43:00 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By...</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/TbDtP0i8n2c1sgigMnzd0g2Q_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://xkcd.com/350/"&gt;xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20418038</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20418038</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:42:50 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"Penny’s playing in front of this, playing behind this set of … uh …
Ray..."</title><description>“Penny’s playing in front of this, playing behind this set of … uh …&lt;br/&gt;
Ray Hudson&lt;br/&gt;
Defenders, I think, is the word you’re searching for.&lt;br/&gt;
Phil Schoen&lt;br/&gt;
Penguins, actually, Phil.&lt;br/&gt;
Ray Hudson, 6:11”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://hudsonia.blogspot.com/2007/11/ecuador-vs-peru-november-21st.html"&gt;Hudsonia: Ecuador vs Peru, November 21st - The Wisdom of Ray Hudson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20418025</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20418025</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:42:28 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>“It really bugs me. They say ‘Oh, David Beckham...</title><description>&lt;img src="https://64.media.tumblr.com/TbDtP0i8n2c1nl6a2QK0XxRs_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;“It really bugs me. They say ‘Oh, David Beckham – he’s not very clever.’ Yeah. They don’t say, 'Stephen Hawking – shit at football.’” (via &lt;a href="http://theoffsiderules.blogspot.com/2007/11/quote-of-day-2.html"&gt;The Offside Rules: Quote of the Day #2&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20417755</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20417755</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:39:01 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>"During ABC/ESPN’s halftime show of last Saturday’s Kansas-Missouri college football game, the former..."</title><description>“During ABC/ESPN’s halftime show of last Saturday’s Kansas-Missouri college football game, the former coach Lou Holtz was asked which of the many vacant coaching jobs he found most appealing. “England,” Holtz said, with a laugh.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://theoffsiderules.blogspot.com/2007/11/quote-of-day-1.html"&gt;The Offside Rules: Quote of the Day #1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20417694</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20417694</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:37:24 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>Pitchfork Forkcast: Video: Love Is All: “Ageing Had Never...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="334"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3jRWa-6qX5M&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3jRWa-6qX5M&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="334"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/40809-love-is-all-ageing-had-never-been-his-friend"&gt;Pitchfork Forkcast: Video: Love Is All: “Ageing Had Never Been His Friend”&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20417563</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20417563</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:34:44 -0800</pubDate></item><item><title>UEFA Fight Fat With the Best Ad Ever - World Football - The...</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="334"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/24SI-9F1ZUc&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/24SI-9F1ZUc&amp;rel=1&amp;border=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="334"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theoffside.com/world-football/uefa-fights-fat-with-the-best-ad-ever.html"&gt;UEFA Fight Fat With the Best Ad Ever - World Football - The Offside - Soccer News and Opinion from leagues around the world&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20412851</link><guid>https://midfield.tumblr.com/post/20412851</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:07:29 -0800</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
