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	<title>Infinitive Splitter</title>
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	<description>nuts to these internetting cranks</description>
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		<title>Inverse relationships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This commercial makes me laugh every time.

The worst companies have the best ad wizards.
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		<link>http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2010/01/27/inverse-relationships/</link>
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		<title>Suggestion for criminal HR departments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Email scammers in the developing world have had tremendous success at relieving Americans of their money, but there&#8217;s much room for improvement. Checking my spam filter just now, I found an attempt from &#8220;PayPal&#8221; that began thus:
Due to our last days online problems, many phishing attempts and identity-theft, we need to verify our members accounts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2009/11/11/suggestion-for-criminal-hr-departments/</link>
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		<title>Summer Vacation Photoblog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Clarissa and I went to Seattle for a long weekend recently, and at the car-rental agency I learned why the U.S. automobile industry is in such bad shape: it produces offensive, humiliating machines like the Chevrolet HHR:

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		<link>http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2009/07/19/summer-vacation-photoblog/</link>
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		<title>Is this Dana Rohrabacher&#8217;s car?</title>
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The driver of this car changed lanes abruptly in front of me in heavy traffic on K Street this afternoon. As you can see, it&#8217;s registered in California and bears a license plate marked &#8220;U.S. CONGRESS 46.&#8221;
Does Rep. Dana Rohrabacher drive a green Oldsmobile Aurora?
As far as I can tell, it is &#8212; or should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2009/04/05/is-this-dana-rohrabachers-car/</link>
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		<title>Past performance and future results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen, the starting pitchers for your 2009 Pittsburgh Pirates!
Career ERA and ERA+:

Jeff Karstens &#8212; 4.89, 89
Zach Duke &#8212; 4.39, 98
Paul Maholm &#8212; 4.30, 100
Ross Ohlendorf &#8212; 6.13, 71
Ian Snell &#8212; 4.67, 92

Maholm&#8217;s career ERA+ of 100 means he is a perfectly average major league pitcher. All the other guys have been worse.
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		<link>http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2009/04/04/past-performance-and-future-results/</link>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t go wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lindsey says I&#8217;m &#8220;lobbying for Iron City to become the next hip beer.&#8221;
It&#8217;s true. Iron City is a no-frills lager brewed in Pittsburgh since 1861 by a company that survived bankruptcy a few years ago. If you&#8217;re looking for a bland beer with a proud industrial history, look no further (and for $3 or less [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2009/04/03/cant-go-wrong/</link>
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		<title>Going home again makes good sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my parents&#8217; friends told me a story a few years ago about moving home to Pittsburgh for what he expected to be a few months after graduate school before going to New York to start his life. But then an illness stalled him, and then he met his wife (who&#8217;d had big-city ideas, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2009/04/01/going-home-again-makes-good-sense/</link>
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		<title>God is a vain ad wizard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve noticed that &#8220;God&#8221; has leased some space on Washington metrobuses to run an ad that says, &#8220;Why believe? Because I created you and I love you, for goodness&#8217; sake.&#8221; Humanist associations in the United States and Britain have been running ads using similar words for a few months (&#8220;Why believe in a god? Just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2009/03/04/god-is-a-vain-ad-wizard/</link>
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		<title>Standing up for the deadbeats (?)</title>
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It&#8217;s fashionable these days to ridicule the ShamWow guy or scoff at the Snuggie. We roll our eyes at ads for payday lenders and companies offering cash for &#8220;broken or unwanted&#8221; precious metals. But where is the outcry against law firms that help apparently successful people avoid paying taxes they owe?
Are there legitimate circumstances that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2009/03/02/standing-up-for-the-deadbeats/</link>
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		<title>The internet doesn&#8217;t make sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a big-shot business wizard, but this seems insane:
Serious talks between the Facebook social network and the Twitter microblogging service started soon after Mr. Williams took over as chief executive on Oct. 16. Twitter reportedly rejected Facebook’s $500 million, mostly stock offer several weeks ago.
“We explored it, as we should. We took it seriously,” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.infinitivesplitter.com/2008/12/03/the-internet-doesnt-make-sense/</link>
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