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		<title>The Techland Show: The Bitch God Episode</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/03/12/the-techland-show-the-bitch-god-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No seriously, I say the phrase "bitch god" in this one. The god in question is Poseidon. Other than that I have no idea what I was talking about.
Peter's away at GDC this week, along with Evan, where they are probably using up our entire expense budget for the year. So it's me and Steve, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=19018&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Millar Interview, Part 2: On Being Punched in the Face</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/03/12/mark-millar-interview-part-2-on-being-punched-in-the-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=18998</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 was Wednesday. This is the second and final part. 
Here we discuss why the Kick-Ass movie was almost a huge disaster, Millar's three favorite comics, Dr. Manhattan's giant blue dick, what he learned from being punched in the face, twice, and the failure of a generation of comics writers.
It's important to imagine Millar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=18998&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Millar Interview, Part 1: Pornography Would Be Less Shameful</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/03/10/mark-millar-part-1-pornography-would-be-less-shameful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=18699</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I got to talk to Mark Millar on the phone. Even if you haven't heard of Millar -- which you probably have -- you know his work. He did major work on X-Men and Captain America. He did Marvel's Civil War. He did Wanted. He did one of my all-time favorite graphic novels, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=18699&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Techland Show: The Nice Edition</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/03/05/the-techland-show-the-nice-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=18213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week on the Techland show we once again feature our intern Allie Townsend. Not only do Allie's posts get more traffic than mine, she also got to see Alice before I did. This time next year Allie will probably have my job. The year after that she'll have your job.
We get to the bottom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=18213&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China&#039;s Human Flesh Search Engines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=18204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm not super into straight-up repostings of other people's repostings of links, but I am sufficiently skeeved by an article in this weekend's New York Times Magazine that I can't help it.
It's a piece about a practice, apparently (the evidence is compelling but anecdotal) increasingly common in China: somebody gets caught doing something awful, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=18204&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Portal Stuff; New Halo Reach Trailer; Yay</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/03/03/new-portal-stuff-new-halo-reach-trailer-yay/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.com/2010/03/03/new-portal-stuff-new-halo-reach-trailer-yay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=17824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are signs of life from Aperture Science. Valve released on update for its incredibly compelling puzzle game Portal yesterday. This has set off a mad scramble through one of those weird augmented-reality scavenger hunts, starting with radios in the game releasing screechy audio transmissions, which were decodable into a series of images and Morse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=17824&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Penny Arcade Interview: Subconscious Lashings in a Dark Dream</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/03/03/the-penny-arcade-interview-or-the-subconscious-lashings-of-a-person-in-a-dark-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.com/2010/03/03/the-penny-arcade-interview-or-the-subconscious-lashings-of-a-person-in-a-dark-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=17493</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Penny Arcade is/are doing a dee-luxe hardcover book called The Splendid Magic of Penny Arcade in honor of their 10th anniversary. If you don't know what Penny Arcade is, it's one of the greatest comics on the Web. Or off it. Go there and don't come back for at least two hours. 
Go ahead. I'll [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=17493&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Practical Guide to ... Traveling Between Worlds</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/03/02/a-practical-guide-to-traveling-between-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=17652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago I took a shot at a list of the top 10 portals between worlds, and the post got a lot of good comments. Ah, those were the days.
Anyhoo, we were talking about this w/r/t Alice hitting theaters this week, and I thought I'd revisit the subject in the form of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=17652&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another Ridiculously Viral Video from OK Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=17614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It may have cost them years of their lives, but I feel pretty confident that OK Go will once again ride the giant viral sandworm with this video. I think my personal favorite moment is the smashed TV at 3:39.
The making-of doc is below, in four parts:
    
    
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		<title>Plants Vs. Zombies: These Are Which Plants Are and Are Not Lame</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/03/01/plants-vs-zombies-these-are-which-plants-are-and-are-not-lame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[this really isn't interesting unless you've played PvZ and maybe not even then]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=17141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given that Plants vs. Zombies is now, apparently, the top-selling iPhone game launch of all time, and now that there exists actual Plants Vs. Zombies porn (NSFW, don't say I didn't warn you, because I just did, and I'm doing it again right now), and now that I have finished adventure mode, I feel it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=17141&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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