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		<title>A Fake Interview with Josh Lieb</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2009/11/16/a-fake-interview-with-josh-lieb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Selman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Josh Lieb,  Executive Producer of the Daily Show, has just published his debut novel, I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President.  I know him and he agreed to write a fake interview with me so I wouldn't have to write my blog. What follows is my fault [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=4217&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GTA IV:  Inherent Vice City</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2009/10/09/gta-iv-inherent-vice-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Selman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/?p=2400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing about the Grand Theft Auto video games for the Time 100 issue, I unpersuasively argued the following semi-flippant point:  the Houser brothers who write and create these games are the spiritual successors to Balzac and Twain and Wolfe.  They are societal super-reporters, stuffing the gaming experience with detailed observations worthy of great novels.  Their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=2400&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now That&#039;s Abridged!</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2009/10/07/now-thats-abridged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 06:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Selman</dc:creator>
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		<title>Big &amp; Tall Halloween Costume of the Year</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2009/09/30/big-tall-halloween-costume-of-the-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Selman</dc:creator>
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		<title>&#039;District 9&#039; Banned in District 9</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2009/09/23/district-9-banned-in-district-9/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.com/2009/09/23/district-9-banned-in-district-9/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Selman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/?p=2294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[DISTRICT 9, Johannesburg (AP) -- In the wake of its recent Nigerian ban, the film District 9 has also been banned in District 9.  Citing images of the district's alien inhabitants as "filthy, violent, cat food-eating bug-monsters," Hive Drone Overseer Prime Martin Anderson forbid the film's showing within the perimeter of the penned-off  home [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=2294&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terms of Warner Bros./Tolkien Lawsuit Settlement Leaked</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2009/09/12/terms-of-warner-bros-tolkien-lawsuit-settlement-leaked/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.com/2009/09/12/terms-of-warner-bros-tolkien-lawsuit-settlement-leaked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 21:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Selman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The New York Times, September 8, 2009:
Harper Collins and the heirs to the author J.R.R. Tolkien reached a settlement with Warner Brothers in their suit against the studio over payments from films based on “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, according to statement from Warner, the publisher and the heirs today.  The statement did not disclose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=2237&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>True Tales of Conversational Vengeance</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2009/09/08/true-tales-of-conversational-vengeance/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.com/2009/09/08/true-tales-of-conversational-vengeance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Selman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, after a long day spent thinking of new nouns for Homer to say after "Mmm...", my wife dragged me to the screening of a film directed by a friend. The film was fine. The rough part was the reception.
A room full of strangers is not my favorite social scenario. I prefer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=2189&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obligatory Marvel-Disney Mash-ups!!!</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2009/09/01/obligatory-marvel-disney-mash-ups/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.com/2009/09/01/obligatory-marvel-disney-mash-ups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Selman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://nerdworld.blogs.time.com/?p=2176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[FINDING NAMOR
HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIFTED YOUNSTERS MUSICAL
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MARY POPPINS
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (HANK McCOY)
THE AVENGER DUMPLING GANG
SKRULL GOOFY
THE INCREDIBLES (already a FANTASTIC FOUR rip-off)
SLEEPING MUTIE
SNOW WHITE AND THE SINISTER SIX
POWER MAN AND LION KING
JAFAR-VERINE
HERB-E
NICK FURY, AGENT OF W.A.V.E.R.L.Y. P.L.A.C.E.
CAPTAIN AMERICA OF THE CARIBBEAN
HOWARD THE DONALD DUCK
(It would seem there are an infinite number of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=2176&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Screenwriters Quiz</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2009/08/21/dead-screenwriters-quiz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 02:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Selman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three important screenwriters died recently.  Which writer's work will have the greatest impact on the future of movie-making?
A)  Budd Schulberg (On the Waterfront)
B)  John Hughes (Ferris Beuller's Day Off)
C)  Blake Snyder (Stop!  Or My Mom Will Shoot)
The answer, in the pattern of how these things always go, is C)  Blake Snyder.
Yes, Budd Shulberg embodied the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=2116&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Acronyms</title>
		<link>http://techland.com/2009/08/05/fake-acronyms/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.com/2009/08/05/fake-acronyms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 19:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Selman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 7, an action movie, G.I. Joe:  The Rise of Cobra, opens against a cooking movie, Julie and Julia.  To update the franchise for the new millennium, G.I. Joe now stands for:
Global
 Integrated
 Joint
 Operating
 Entity
Days before its release, Julie and Julia has also revealed its new acronym:
Jolly
 Upper middle class
 Ladies
 Indulging
 Everything
Anything
 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.com&blog=5290478&post=2060&subd=timenerdworld&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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