<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" ><channel><title>Newsvine - TomPitysFools's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/</link><description>Newsvine - TomPitysFools's Column - Articles and Seeds</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2010</copyright><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:45:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:25:50 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Student Writes Story Features Zombies, High School, Shows To Grandparents, Is Arrested As Terrorist</title><description><![CDATA[A George Rogers Clark High School junior arrested Tuesday for making terrorist threats told LEX 18 News Thursday that the "writings" that got him arrested are being taken out of context. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/17/2010805-student-writes-story-features-zombies-high-school-shows-to-grandparents-is-arrested-as-terrorist</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/17/2010805-student-writes-story-features-zombies-high-school-shows-to-grandparents-is-arrested-as-terrorist</guid><category>terrorism</category><category>us-news</category><category>stupidity</category><category>zombies</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:45:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Don't Call Me a Consumer</title><description><![CDATA[I'm growing very tired of the word "consumer." Every time I turn on the TV, the talking heads are discussing "the consumer." Consumers aren't spending as much, consumers are cutting back, consumers are hurting, consumers need to increase their spending to save the eco&nbsp;&hellip;]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/16/2003883-dont-call-me-a-consumer</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/10/16/2003883-dont-call-me-a-consumer</guid><category>business</category><category>consumer</category><category>finance</category><category>consumers</category><category>words</category><category>personal-finance</category><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:15:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Reviews Without Pity: WALL-E</title><description><![CDATA[In, WALL-E, this summer's big budget kids' movie, Pixar unsurprisingly proves yet again that it's really the only division of the modern Disney empire still worth a damn.  (Sorry, Hannah.)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/07/1644487-reviews-without-pity-wall-e</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/07/1644487-reviews-without-pity-wall-e</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>disney</category><category>movies</category><category>pixar</category><category>reviews</category><category>wall-e</category><category>reviews-without-pity</category><category>look-again</category><category>current-look</category><pubDate>Mon, 7 Jul 2008 11:54:14 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:thumbnail medium="image" url="http://www.polls.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/tn/the-pitytorium/1644493.jpg" width="75" height="111" /></item><item><title>YouTube Ordered to Give Complete User Logs to Viacom: All Usernames, IPs, and Video Viewing Histories</title><description><![CDATA[As part of its $1 billion lawsuit against user-video site YouTube, Viacom will receive a complete log of all users' activities, which will include a list of usernames, IP addresses, and videos that each account has viewed in the past. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/03/1635854-youtube-ordered-to-give-complete-user-logs-to-viacom-all-usernames-ips-and-video-viewing-histories</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/07/03/1635854-youtube-ordered-to-give-complete-user-logs-to-viacom-all-usernames-ips-and-video-viewing-histories</guid><category>viacom</category><category>privacy</category><category>internet</category><category>web</category><category>us-news</category><category>you-tube</category><pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:05:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil</title><description><![CDATA[As forecasters take that possibility more seriously, they describe fundamental shifts in the way we work, where we live and how we spend our free time.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1627320-envisioning-a-world-of-200-a-barrel-oil</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1627320-envisioning-a-world-of-200-a-barrel-oil</guid><category>energy</category><category>oil</category><category>gas-prices</category><category>economics</category><category>energy-crisis</category><category>us-news</category><category>peak-oil</category><pubDate>Tue, 1 Jul 2008 02:04:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>18% of Americans Think The Sun Revolves Around the Earth---Their Brains Are Lying To Them?</title><description><![CDATA[False beliefs are everywhere. Eighteen percent of Americans think the sun revolves around the earth, one poll has found. Thus it seems slightly less egregious that, according to another poll, 10 percent of us think that Senator Barack Obama, a Christian, is instead a Muslim.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625794-18-of-americans-think-the-sun-revolves-around-the-earth-their-brains-are-lying-to-them</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625794-18-of-americans-think-the-sun-revolves-around-the-earth-their-brains-are-lying-to-them</guid><category>us-news</category><category>polls</category><category>false-beliefs</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:05:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage</title><description><![CDATA[Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage

Women participating in the research rated men with stubble as tough, mature, aggressive, dominant and masculine - and as the best romantic partners, either for a fling or a long-term relationships.

]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625700-women-prefer-men-with-stubble-for-love-sex-and-marriage</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625700-women-prefer-men-with-stubble-for-love-sex-and-marriage</guid><category>women</category><category>odd-news</category><category>men</category><category>shaving</category><category>stubble</category><category>preferences</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:39:29 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Global Warming Is a Cause of This Year's Extreme Weather?</title><description><![CDATA[It's almost a point of pride with climatologists. Whenever someplace is hit with a heat wave, drought, killer storm or other extreme weather, scientists trip over themselves to absolve global warming.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625036-global-warming-is-a-cause-of-this-years-extreme-weather</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625036-global-warming-is-a-cause-of-this-years-extreme-weather</guid><category>flooding</category><category>global-warming</category><category>climate-change</category><category>us-news</category><category>extreme-weather</category><category>midwest-flooding</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:57:05 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>How Much Has Your Congressman Profited Off the Iraq War?</title><description><![CDATA[A new study by a nonpartisan research group shows that lawmakers' stock holdings in various companies doing business with the Defense Department totals more than $196 million, earning the congress critters millions in profits individually since the start of the war in Iraq.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625032-how-much-has-your-congressman-profited-off-the-iraq-war</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625032-how-much-has-your-congressman-profited-off-the-iraq-war</guid><category>iraq</category><category>congress</category><category>politics</category><category>iraq-war</category><category>profitteering</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:53:55 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Anxious in America: Thomas L. Friedman Weighs in on the Economic Crisis</title><description><![CDATA[I do not believe nation-building in Iraq is going to be the issue come November — whether things get better there or worse. If they get better, we'll ignore Iraq more; if they get worse, the next president will be under pressure to get out quicker.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625027-anxious-in-america-thomas-l-friedman-weighs-in-on-the-economic-crisis</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625027-anxious-in-america-thomas-l-friedman-weighs-in-on-the-economic-crisis</guid><category>election</category><category>economics</category><category>us-news</category><category>thomas-l-friedman</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:50:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>FDA Boosts Bonuses Despite Ongoing Criticism From Hill</title><description><![CDATA[The Food and Drug Administration increased bonuses to its employees by 29 percent in the past year, despite earlier objections from lawmakers.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625009-fda-boosts-bonuses-despite-ongoing-criticism-from-hill</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/30/1625009-fda-boosts-bonuses-despite-ongoing-criticism-from-hill</guid><category>fda</category><category>bonuses</category><category>us-news</category><category>pay-raises</category><category>government-pay</category><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:40:21 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Watchmen: Watchmen Shouldn't Be A Movie</title><description><![CDATA[All of the discussion about next March's Watchmen movie has focused on whether it'll be faithful to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' seminal graphic novel. But really, they're missing the point — Watchmen shouldn't be a movie at all.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/28/1621600-watchmen-watchmen-shouldnt-be-a-movie</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/28/1621600-watchmen-watchmen-shouldnt-be-a-movie</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>movies</category><category>comics</category><category>alan-moore</category><category>graphic-novels</category><category>watchmen</category><category>dave-gibbons</category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:28:02 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>World's Top 10 Intellectuals Are All Muslims</title><description><![CDATA[The bimonthly US international affairs journal Foreign Policy has just published a survey of the world's top 20 public intellectuals and the first 10 are all Muslims. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/28/1620887-worlds-top-10-intellectuals-are-all-muslims</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/28/1620887-worlds-top-10-intellectuals-are-all-muslims</guid><category>muslims</category><category>islam</category><category>world-news</category><category>foreign-policy</category><category>intellectuals</category><category>top-lists</category><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:01:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>RIAA Forces to Pay Legal Fees of Person It Wrongly Sued</title><description><![CDATA[A federal judge is awarding Tanya Andersen, who defeated the Recording Industry Association of America's file sharing lawsuit, $108,000 in legal fees to compensate for defending herself against the RIAA.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/26/1612387-riaa-forces-to-pay-legal-fees-of-person-it-wrongly-sued</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/26/1612387-riaa-forces-to-pay-legal-fees-of-person-it-wrongly-sued</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>music</category><category>file-sharing</category><category>lawsuits</category><category>riaa</category><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:51:20 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Ninja Attacks New Jersey School, Students Locked Down</title><description><![CDATA[It's the case of the nonexistent ninja. Public schools in Barnegat were locked down briefly after someone reported seeing a ninja running through the woods behind an elementary school.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/26/1612381-ninja-attacks-new-jersey-school-students-locked-down</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/26/1612381-ninja-attacks-new-jersey-school-students-locked-down</guid><category>new-jersey</category><category>stealth</category><category>us-news</category><category>ninja</category><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:48:40 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Japanese ISP institutes upload caps... of 30GB... daily </title><description><![CDATA[Bandwidth caps are coming to Japan, but not in the way to which North Americans are accustomed. OCN, operated by NTT Communications, has decided to impose a daily upload limit beginning on August 1. The limit? 30GB per day. Upstream.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/26/1612360-japanese-isp-institutes-upload-caps-of-30gb-daily-</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/26/1612360-japanese-isp-institutes-upload-caps-of-30gb-daily-</guid><category>technology</category><category>japan</category><category>internet</category><category>web</category><category>bandwidth</category><category>isps</category><category>upload</category><category>upload-speeds</category><category>rate-limiting</category><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:45:27 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Poking along in the left lane? Prepare to pay---Seattle Cops Tickets Slow Drivers</title><description><![CDATA[Even if you're going the speed limit it might not be enough to prevent you from getting a ticket if you're holding up traffic in the fast lane.

State troopers are on a mission to make sure the left lane on area freeways is used for its intended purpose: passing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/25/1608369-poking-along-in-the-left-lane-prepare-to-pay-seattle-cops-tickets-slow-drivers</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/25/1608369-poking-along-in-the-left-lane-prepare-to-pay-seattle-cops-tickets-slow-drivers</guid><category>police</category><category>cops</category><category>driving</category><category>seattle</category><category>cars</category><category>tickets</category><category>traffic</category><category>us-news</category><category>highways</category><category>interstates</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:54:31 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>The 12 Kinds of Whores (From D &amp; D)</title><description><![CDATA[The 4th edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing came recently came out, and some of the older fans have bemoaned the lack of proper alignments, the loss of certain classes like the druid, and so forth. But there's only one thing truly missing from the newest D&D: whores.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/25/1608359-the-12-kinds-of-whores-from-d-d</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/25/1608359-the-12-kinds-of-whores-from-d-d</guid><category>odd-news</category><category>whores</category><category>dungeons-and-dragons</category><category>prostitues</category><category>gary-gygax</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:50:07 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Court says 12 year old child can't be grounded</title><description><![CDATA[A recent court decision in Canada should send chills down every parent's spine. The ruling is so out of bounds that the news story sounds like a parody -- but it isn't.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/24/1607381-court-says-12-year-old-child-cant-be-grounded</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/24/1607381-court-says-12-year-old-child-cant-be-grounded</guid><category>lawyers</category><category>odd-news</category><category>weird-laws</category><category>odd-decisions</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:47:44 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Man: Why Are So Many Women Depressed? Of Course, Feminisim!</title><description><![CDATA[It is widely reported that women suffer depression at twice the rate of men. Apparently, more women are clinically depressed than ever before.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TomPitysFools]]></dc:creator><link>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/24/1607369-man-why-are-so-many-women-depressed-of-course-feminisim</link><guid>http://the-pitytorium.newsvine.com/_news/2008/06/24/1607369-man-why-are-so-many-women-depressed-of-course-feminisim</guid><category>odd-news</category><category>depression</category><category>feminism</category><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:42:37 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/bookmark</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>