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	<title>Brendan Melican</title>
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		<title>Mapping Google Fiber In Worcester</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve thrown up a google map at this page where Worcester students, residents, business types and other civic minded awesome people with access to a computer can tag their location in the city and leave a little note as to why the Google Fiber for Communities project is important to them.  Yes, Shrewsbury is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brendanmelican.com/2010/03/09/mapping-google-fiber-in-worcester/</link>
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		<title>SeeClickFix &#124; Filling Worcesters Potholes via GPS</title>
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Listening to NPR&#8217;s All Things Considered yesterday, I caught Ben Berkowitz, the co-founder of seeclickfix.com talking about his company and how they plan to revolutionize the reporting of crime and grime issues to municipal agencies via smartphones.  SCF uses the GPS on your smartphone to tag everything from potholes to prostitutes, ensures the city [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brendanmelican.com/2010/03/06/seeclickfix-filling-worcester-potholes-via-gps/</link>
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		<title>Google Fiber for Communities Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;m sure many of you are aware, yesterday Google announced a new initiative to build next-gen, high-speed fiber networks in select communities throughout the US.  Maybe I&#8217;m being overly optimistic, but it seems as though Worcester would be perfect for such an initiative when you consider the second largest city in New England [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brendanmelican.com/2010/02/11/google-fiber-for-communities-project/</link>
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		<title>I hear ice skates will be huge in 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ice skating delays on the common&#8230; The funds have seemingly been allocated and I don&#8217;t skate,  so it&#8217;s tough for me to get excited or angry over the lack of progress on the Worcester Common, seems more a case of inefficiencies between multiple government agencies.  However, one statement from todays T&#038;G article covering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brendanmelican.com/2010/02/02/i-hear-ice-skates-will-be-huge-in-2012/</link>
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		<title>Tea Parties are so 1974</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Worthy of note, the &#8220;IRA&#8221; emblazoned Irish flag on one protestors sign.
I guess that&#8217;s the good kind of terrorism freedom fighter?

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		<link>http://brendanmelican.com/2010/02/01/tea-parties-are-so-1974/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the day &#8211; Rogue edition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From a rather excellent review of Sarah Palins new coloring book, &#8220;Going Rogue&#8220;.
Millions of copies will be sold of a book written by someone who can’t write, intended for an audience that doesn’t read, about the thoughts of a person who doesn’t think. God is dead.
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		<link>http://brendanmelican.com/2009/11/18/quote-of-the-day-rogue-edition/</link>
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		<title>Congressman McGovern skates the Capitol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for the release of Tony Hawk Ride, on last nights Colbert Report Congressman Jim McGovern hopped on a skateboard with Colbert for a quick ride through the Capitol.
Disaffected youth of Worcester, bookmark this video for use next time Worcester Officials try and tell you skateboarding is a crime.  If it&#8217;s good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brendanmelican.com/2009/11/18/congressman-mcgovern-skates-the-capitol/</link>
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		<title>Dock Ellis &amp; The LSD No-No</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dock Ellis LSD assisted no hitter from 1970 is by far my favorite sports story.  Now it&#8217;s been lovingly animated by NoMas.

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		<link>http://brendanmelican.com/2009/11/15/dock-ellis-the-lsd-no-no/</link>
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		<title>reddit.com interviews Rep. Barney Frank</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social linkdump reddit.com recently sat down with US Rep. Barney Frank to answer questions from the reddit community at his insanely messy desk.
Here&#8217;s part 1 of 5:

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		<link>http://brendanmelican.com/2009/10/24/reddit-com-interviews-rep-barney-frank/</link>
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		<title>A day in the life of a blacksmith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1979 the American Antiquarian Society purchased a small hard-covered account book containing a daily log from January 1, 1869 to June 2, 1870.  Clues of the anonymous diarist’s identity began to reveal themselves in his cursive scrawl: a young blacksmith apprentice from Stow, Massachusetts working in Medfield.
That diary is now coming back to life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brendanmelican.com/2009/10/24/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-blacksmith/</link>
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