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	<title>Simplicitas • 无用之用</title>
	<link>http://kenliu.name</link>
	<description>Most rare is now our old simplicity • 说其志意， 养其寿命</description>
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		<title>乡村教师</title>
		<description><![CDATA[刘慈欣 (Liu Cixin) is one of the China&#8217;s best science fiction writers. 《乡村教师》(&#8220;The Rural Teacher&#8221;), written in 2000, is my first exposure to his work. The story weaves between a dying elementary school teacher in one of China&#8217;s poorest, remotest provinces, and the aftermath of an interstellar war between the Carbon Federation and the Silicon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/07/27/%e4%b9%a1%e6%9d%91%e6%95%99%e5%b8%88/</link>
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		<title>Songbirds End Up in European Bellies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Europeans love to lecture the rest of the world, especially Asia, about how &#8220;barbaric&#8221; their eating habits are and how damaging such eating habits are for the environment. Not sure where they get the moral superiority. Jonathan Franzen chronicles the massacre of European songbirds to satisfy the appetites of Europeans in and around the Mediterranean, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/07/24/songbirds-end-up-in-european-bellies/</link>
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		<title>The World Without Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Alan Weisman&#8217;s The World Without Us is a meditation on our effects upon the natural world &#8212; told through the conceit of a fantasy whereby our species is suddenly removed from the Earth. What happens next? Cities crumble, roads disintegrate. Within a few centuries the lush natural world will begin to efface traces of our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/07/21/the-world-without-us/</link>
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		<title>Dirimens Copulatio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dirimens copulatio is a rhetorical figure whereby one takes a position, followed by a qualifying statement contrary to that position. E.g., &#8220;Steve Jobs has claimed that the iPhone 4 is the best smartphone available, though he has also admitted that it is not perfect and has weaknesses.&#8221; It&#8217;s related to the figure of in utrumque [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/07/17/dirimens-copulatio/</link>
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		<title>Readercon 21</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Went to Readercon 21 for the day &#8212; my first convention. I very much recommend the experience. Got to meet some editors and authors I&#8217;ve long admired, and without exception they were fantastic people. Picked up some great tips too. Really, if you haven&#8217;t been, make sure you go next year. The entrance fee is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/07/11/readercon-21/</link>
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		<title>The Baseball Codes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The title of The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America&#8217;s Pastime pretty much tells you what it&#8217;s about. If you are interested in the subject &#8212; as I am &#8212; this is a fascinating collection of anecdotes about the history of the Code. If you are not, then [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/07/11/the-baseball-codes/</link>
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		<title>Literomancer to Appear in F&amp;SF in Sep/Oct 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Literomancer&#8221; will appear in the Sep/Oct Issue of F&#38;SF.]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/07/10/literomancer-to-appear-in-fsf-in-sepoct-2010/</link>
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		<title>Another Sale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just sold another story to F&#38;SF. So far I&#8217;m batting 0.286 for the year, which is like a V-Mart or Marco Scutaro, and that&#8217;s not bad at all.]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/07/06/another-sale/</link>
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		<title>What?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[And that concludes the month-long picture a day experiment. I&#8217;ve enjoyed it, and hope you have too.]]></description>
		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/07/06/what/</link>
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		<title>Early Light</title>
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		<link>http://kenliu.name/simplicitas/2010/07/05/early-light/</link>
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