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		<title>The Rise of &#8220;Militainment&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Link: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/22/meet_the_sims_and_shoot_them?page=0,0
A Financial Times describes how video game technology has replaced or supplemented military training across all US service branches.  The costs are lower, the training prospects better, the exercises far safer, but there is a hidden danger: when a gamer makes the transition from video game war to real war, how can he [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://agblog.com/entry/3553#comments"><img src="http://agblog.com/wp-content/plugins/tantan/get-comments.php?p=3553" width="100" height="15" style="border:0;" /></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Catastrophic vs first-dollar health insurance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Megan McArdle makes the point that our health care debate is skewed because we are debating a full coverage program rather than also discussing the need for catastrophic coverage.  The latter is in some ways much easier to justify and to insure, but our framing covers the entire health care market, with all the [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://agblog.com/entry/3548#comments"><img src="http://agblog.com/wp-content/plugins/tantan/get-comments.php?p=3548" width="100" height="15" style="border:0;" /></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>A possible augmented future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Link: http://vimeo.com/8569187
I&#8217;ve been advocated augmented reality &#8212; the idea of overlaying information on our world using technology &#8212; for over a decade.  But the potential augmented future portrayed in this short film is a frightening exploration of what AR might bring.  The simple act of brewing a cup of tea becomes an exercise [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://agblog.com/entry/3545#comments"><img src="http://agblog.com/wp-content/plugins/tantan/get-comments.php?p=3545" width="100" height="15" style="border:0;" /></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Wonder?  Check.</title>
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At the peak of Mt. Moosilauke, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.  On a perfectly clear day.  Followed by sledding.  Followed by steak.  It was glorious.
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		<title>Observation on eating and hiking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed how much better food tastes after a day of hiking?  Even mediocre stuff is just so&#8230;good.  I mean, Clif bars taste OK, for goodness sake.  Clif bars!
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		<title>The iPad is a blank canvas, teeming with potential</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last time people, it&#8217;s not about specs!  Processor speed, RAM, and graphic chips are not how you judge an Apple product.  This is faster and that is smaller and this one does multitasking and has USB ports and a network jack.  It doesn&#8217;t matter.
I won&#8217;t prognosticate about how the iPad [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://agblog.com/entry/3534#comments"><img src="http://agblog.com/wp-content/plugins/tantan/get-comments.php?p=3534" width="100" height="15" style="border:0;" /></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>A January Appraisal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been neglecting the blog lately.  I compose thoughts and entries in my head, but never commit them to the keyboard.  It has been a fun and busy last few months, and I have a lot of things to record that I may never get around to recording.  Some highlights&#8230;
I saw this [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://agblog.com/entry/3527#comments"><img src="http://agblog.com/wp-content/plugins/tantan/get-comments.php?p=3527" width="100" height="15" style="border:0;" /></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>How The Republican establishment and the Tea Party movement teamed up to bring down Obama&#8217;s health care plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/us/politics/21reconstruct.html?pagewanted=1&#038;hp
The nascent Tea Party movement continues to show its reach and influence, and the Republican Party is learning how to align itself with and harness the energy of the movement to push its agenda.  Scott Brown&#8217;s defeat of lethargic Martha Coakley in Massachusetts was a strategic triumph that caught a distracted and stretched [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://agblog.com/entry/3517#comments"><img src="http://agblog.com/wp-content/plugins/tantan/get-comments.php?p=3517" width="100" height="15" style="border:0;" /></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Guardian looks at Barack Obama&#8217;s first year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2010/jan/20/barack-obama-first-year
An audio slideshow of the few highs and many lows, and the prospects for the future.  Like many &#8220;year in review&#8221; pieces, this one emphasizes that once the health care reform finally passes, things will become easier, and it will be looked back upon as a crowning achievement.  Except that as of [...]<div class="tantan-getcomments"><a href="http://agblog.com/entry/3514#comments"><img src="http://agblog.com/wp-content/plugins/tantan/get-comments.php?p=3514" width="100" height="15" style="border:0;" /></a></div>]]></description>
		<link>http://agblog.com/entry/3514</link>
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		<title>WSJ on why the MA special election for Ted Kennedy&#8217;s seat became so close</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704561004575013354066663276.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_PoliticsNCampaign_5
The economy, the health care debate, campaign mistakes, and some fortuitous timing of polls.  But mostly I&#8217;m amazed the WSJ article isn&#8217;t massively biased&#8230;
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