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	<title>Christopher Vera's Mystic Nebula</title>
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	<description>Studies in the natural, the unnatural and the supernatural.</description>
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		<title>Security Haiku for you!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just started a new website to capture that art between cyber security and poetry. Please check it out and contribute a verse or two! http://securityhaiku.com]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mysticnebula.com/2010/05/20/security-haiku-for-you/</link>
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		<title>To Calculate the Edges of a Polyhedral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure this math is trivial to most statisticians, physicists and mathematicians, but some friends and I determined how to calculate the edges of any 3 dimensional polyhedral. We used my AD&#38;D dice to verify. (E * F) /2 where E = the number of edges on a single face of the shape, and F [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mysticnebula.com/2010/01/27/to-calculate-the-edges-of-a-polyhedral/</link>
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		<title>Spectulative poetry in the news</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We speculative poets (that is, poets that write about subjects that may or may not exist, such as the fantastical or science fiction) sometimes play the role of forgotten stepchildren locked in the basement while &#8220;real&#8221; poets collect all the fame and glory (in reality there&#8217;s not much of either, even for &#8220;real&#8221; poets!). So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mysticnebula.com/2009/09/30/spectulative-poetry-in-the-news/</link>
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		<title>Great song for writing poetry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like me, you enjoy writing poetry to music. Its best of we can&#8217;t understand the words to the music so it doesn&#8217;t influence our writing. try listening to this piece WITHOUT watching the video that goes with it so it doesn&#8217;t influence you. Let your mind wander&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mysticnebula.com/2009/08/21/great-song-for-writing-poetry/</link>
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		<title>Bug fungus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After watching the Earth series of videos, I was struck by the fantastic mix of science and surreal science fiction of this piece. Imagine a cordyceps fungi that attacks humans&#8230; Yes, this is a dead ant with a fungal mushroom pseudo-pod coming out of its head. Its nothing like the video though. Be sure to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mysticnebula.com/2009/07/17/134/</link>
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		<title>Artist Trading Cards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just learned about artist trading cards. Here&#8217;s my first crude attempt at creating one.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mysticnebula.com/2009/07/14/artist-trading-cards/</link>
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		<title>Now on Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although I&#8217;ve used Twitter for some time to communicate, I&#8217;ve decided to integrate it with Mystic Nebula. You won&#8217;t find the play-by-play moments of my day here. I wouldn&#8217;t dare bore you with that. But I find Twitter is a great notepad to leave a thought that could in turn become a poem, a story [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mysticnebula.com/2009/07/14/now-on-twitter/</link>
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		<title>My Brother, the Reluctant Poet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My brother is serving faithfully in Afghanistan. He was so moved by a recent Fallen Comrade ceremony&#8211;a ceremony he has performed several times&#8211;he felt the need to write about it, and after reading it, and with his permission, I felt the need to print it. A Sad Tradition By Thomas David Vera II The warriors [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mysticnebula.com/2009/03/09/my-brother-the-reluctant-poet/</link>
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		<title>A Case for Malignant Spirits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago I was driving on a San Diego freeway. It was raining something terrible and visibility was poor. Before I knew it, the traffic ahead of me had stopped and I slammed my brakes and veered into another lane to avoid collision. My car stalled and the vehicles behind me narrowly avoided me. A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mysticnebula.com/2009/02/13/a-case-for-malignant-spirits/</link>
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		<title>The Dread Artificial Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend pointed me to an pessimistic view of technological superhuman intelligence. The main thrust of the article is that in the very near future humankind will develop technology that will create computers that are superhumanly intelligent, resulting in the demise of the human race. Written in 1993, this article was six years ahead of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mysticnebula.com/2009/01/02/the-dread-artificial-intelligence/</link>
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