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		<title>Five Underrated James Bond Films</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;ve been chasing bad guys, driving fast cars, drinking vodka martinis and bedding hot babes for the sake of Queen and country for more than forty years, it&#8217;s only natural that the details might start to run together. Ian Fleming&#8217;s classic superspy James Bond has appeared in 21 films (and that&#8217;s only the official [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=owenblack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3695345&amp;post=83&amp;subd=owenblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spaced Makes it to North America on DVD</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now this, I&#8217;m excited about.  I did a piece on the NTSC DVD release of Spaced for Telewatcher, and now I&#8217;m going to go out and see about finding a box.  (And, if you click through and read it, I really did discover the show because I met some people from England who had literally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=owenblack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3695345&amp;post=81&amp;subd=owenblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Review: San Pellegrino Sodas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Italian bottler San Pellegrino is best known for its sparking mineral water, available in Italian (and other) restaurants. But San Pellegrino has expanded beyond simple water. By mixing the water with various fruit flavors, the company has created a line of sparkling fruit sodas. Originally available only in Europe, the sodas have been picked up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=owenblack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3695345&amp;post=79&amp;subd=owenblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Salmonella Infected Foods and Your Cat</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent outbreak of Salmonella infected tomatoes and other produce has once again raised fears about quality control and contamination in imported food. (The source is believed to be Mexican produce, but this remains unproven and Mexico insists its own inspections have turned up no salmonella contamination there.) For cat owners, the scare raises unpleasant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=owenblack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3695345&amp;post=77&amp;subd=owenblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Starbucks&#8217; Store Closings Mean to You</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did a small business article for Bizcovering about Starbucks&#8217; recent announcement that they&#8217;ll be closing 600 US stores.  I don&#8217;t think big company schadenfreude is the right response to the news. Starbucks changed the coffee business in truly fundamental ways &#8211; some it intended and some it didn&#8217;t. Starbucks certainly tried to become the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=owenblack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3695345&amp;post=75&amp;subd=owenblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Guide to the Vancouver Fringe Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vancouver International Fringe Festival takes place every fall. For about ten days it unleashes a dizzying array of one act plays, one person shows, performance art, cabaret, standup comedy, audience participation, puppet theater and more. Basically anything you can think of can be found at the Vancouver Fringe Festival, along with a lot of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=owenblack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3695345&amp;post=73&amp;subd=owenblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>See British Columbia by Seaplane</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(A travel piece I did.  I don&#8217;t know what it is, but I love the idea of planes landing on water.) British Columbia offers some of the most beautiful landscapes in the world &#8211; and some of the most rugged. If you want to see the gorgeous, still unspoiled interiors of British Columbia, the best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=owenblack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3695345&amp;post=70&amp;subd=owenblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do the Suits Know Best After All?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just did a piece for Cinemaroll on an experience I had showing Firefly to friends who hadn&#8217;t seen it, and talking about how the studio had destroyed the show by meddling with it.  What happened next surprised me. Studio &#8220;suits&#8221; have a horrible reputation for meddling in movies and TV shows and ruining them. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=owenblack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3695345&amp;post=65&amp;subd=owenblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How To:  Become a Bounty Hunter in North Carolina</title>
		<link>http://owenblack.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/how-to-become-a-bounty-hunter-in-north-carolina/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Come on, you know you always wanted to&#8230;) North Carolina is one of many states that have cracked down on the bounty hunting business in recent years. Bounty hunters or &#8220;bail runners&#8221; must be licensed and face other restrictions. But, unlike some states, North Carolina has not outlawed bounty hunting entirely and, if you want [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=owenblack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3695345&amp;post=61&amp;subd=owenblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape 21 Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on the heels of Mixed Tape 20 &#8211; which has proved to be the Experience&#8217;s most commented post ever!! &#8211; Mercedes-Benz has released Mixed Tape 21. The new edition, like the previous one, includes ten tracks.  These seem to veer in kind of a Nu Soul and Trip Hop kind of direction, at least [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=owenblack.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3695345&amp;post=53&amp;subd=owenblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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