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	<title>Techland &#187; Lev Grossman</title>
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		<title>New Muppets: The Ballad of Beaker</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/02/09/new-muppets-the-ballad-of-beaker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[it was funny when he burned]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest from the Muppets. I should have known Beaker was a prog rock guy:
    
Nice Trogdor reference. 
I offer this as reparations for having dissed The Dark Crystal on Twitter.
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		<title>Vacation in Hoth, Winter Wonderland</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/02/08/vacation-in-hoth-winter-wonderland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hoth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spring break 2010!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[star wars]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=14492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw this on io9 and waited as long as I could before blatantly ripping off their post. (I already did so on Twitter.)
An artist named Justin van Genderen did a series of vintage deco-style travel posters for some of the major planets in Star Wars. Here's Hoth:

Do you not admire its beauty? See them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=14492&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Techland Show: The Lil&#039; Poison Edition</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/01/22/the-techland-show-the-lil-poison-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.com/2010/01/22/the-techland-show-the-lil-poison-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kindle gaming is inherently lame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[techland show]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the bet]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=12453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter and I got beat at Halo 3 by an 11-year-old Wednesday. 10-0, 10-0. So that was good. That was really good.
I played him on Snowbound. Snowbound is where I live, man. Snowbound is my house. I got beat in my house.
So this week Peter and I talk about that experience. And some other experiences, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=12453&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hashtag Porn: Twitter&#039;s Geekiest Moments</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/01/22/hashtag-porn-joe-hills-mygeekpeak-meme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[miscellany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frickin' acroyear man]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=12411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Joe Hill -- of Heart-Shaped Box fame, and various other fames (including imminent Horns fame) -- has started on an epic meme on Twitter, hashtag #mygeekpeak. The theme being, in the words of the founder, "where you cop to your geekiest moment ever. If it isn't a li'l embarrassing you aren't trying"
Hill's opening sally -- [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=12411&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Twilight Means: John Granger, Professor of Meyerology</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/01/20/what-twilight-means-john-granger-professor-of-meyerology/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.com/2010/01/20/what-twilight-means-john-granger-professor-of-meyerology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:50:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I am heartily sorry for having offended thee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stephenie meyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the holy trinity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=11988</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Granger made his bones as a renegade academic writing about Harry Potter. Having exhausted the Rowling canon, he has now turned his formidable critical faculties on the Twilight series. His new book Spotlight: A Close-Up Look at the Artistry and Meaning of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga is the result.
The revelations it contains are truly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=11988&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>App Club: The Horrible Vikings</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/01/19/app-club-the-horrible-vikings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[I'm Alistair Cooke]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I liked Earth vs. Moon. Even thought it sometimes made me weep until my iPhone's touchscreen was slick and piezoelectrically confused by the multi-touches of my hot salty tears. 
So I jumped on the second game by the same developers, Low Five Games, which is called The Horrible Vikings.
The contrast with their first game could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=11837&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>App Club: N.O.V.A. Halo Goodbye.</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/01/15/app-club-n-o-v-a-halo-goodbye/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.com/2010/01/15/app-club-n-o-v-a-halo-goodbye/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[there I said it]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=11585</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Look, it's not like I could make a better shooter for the iPhone. And it's not like I couldn't imagine someone else really loving N.O.V.A. It's just that that person isn't me.
I feel strangely protective of N.O.V.A. Like the drawings my daughter makes, which you want to praise except you can't tell what they are.
I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=11585&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fallen Angels Are the New Zombies. Seriously Think About It</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/01/14/fallen-angels-are-the-new-zombies-seriously-think-about-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[angels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bayonetta]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=11381</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember how zombies were the new vampires? Well forget it! Forget it ever happened!
See, now we have Legion coming out, where Paul Bettany plays this angel who goes to Earth to get hella paid save humanity from a bunch of evil angels:
    
At practically the same time we have Bayonetta, which is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=11381&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avatar -- Now for the Atari 2600!</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/01/13/avatar-now-for-the-atari-2600/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[atari 2600]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[now only 2$]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=11167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, this is insanely brilliant. Via Kotaku via GameSetWatch and 30 other blogs, probably: current movies as Atari 2600 game box art.
Full size version is here. It's worth the click.
You can see it all now: a world that might have been, where Cameron's first feature was Avatar instead of Terminator, and they blew all the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=11167&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Boss Battle Ban: A Modest Proposal</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2010/01/12/the-boss-battle-ban-a-modest-proposal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lev Grossman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[borderlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kromm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mothrakk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[up up up is the new shhhh]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.com/?p=11001</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed something about boss battles? How practically every game has them, and they practically always suck?
Take Borderlands. I love Borderlands more than anybody. I want Borderlands to marry my daughter. This is a game with great, fluid unpredictable game play. I've probably put 50 hours into it so far. I'm going to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=11001&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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