<?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/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - James Callan's Column - Articles and Seeds</title><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2012</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:46:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2012 22:32:33 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Not pictured: One-fourth of Hale's senior class</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/06/24/267519-not-pictured-one-fourth-of-hales-senior-class</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/06/24/267519-not-pictured-one-fourth-of-hales-senior-class</guid><category>seniors</category><category>education</category><category>photos</category><category>photography</category><category>high-school</category><category>yearbook</category><category>nathan-hale-high-school</category><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 03:46:00 +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>PETA goes wild - Wants dictionary to jump through hoops</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/06/24/267414-peta-goes-wild-wants-dictionary-to-jump-through-hoops</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/06/24/267414-peta-goes-wild-wants-dictionary-to-jump-through-hoops</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>animals</category><category>language</category><category>peta</category><category>circus</category><category>words</category><category>dictionary</category><category>animal-rights</category><category>merriam-webster</category><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:58:00 +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>&quot;Veronica Mars&quot;: It's No &quot;Buffy&quot;--At Least Not Yet</title>
<description><![CDATA[Week after week, "Veronica Mars," without fail, delivers incredible, snappy dialogue from all its quirky characters, yet there still is an emptiness behind these words and conversations.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/17/168393-veronica-mars-its-no-buffy-at-least-not-yet</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/17/168393-veronica-mars-its-no-buffy-at-least-not-yet</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>tv</category><category>buffy</category><category>veronica-mars</category><category>buffy-the-vampire-slayer</category><category>higher-purpose</category><pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 05:25:08 +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>Seattlest: 43 Things Seattle Is Missing</title>
<description><![CDATA[We love this town. But we'd love it ever-so-much more if it had these things in it. (Budding entrepreneurs, take note.)]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/15/167083-seattlest-43-things-seattle-is-missing</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/15/167083-seattlest-43-things-seattle-is-missing</guid><category>weather</category><category>food</category><category>seattle</category><category>drinking</category><category>strip-club</category><pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2006 05:12:18 +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 Dirty Word in 43 Down: A New York Times crossword gaffe</title>
<description><![CDATA[If you finished Monday's crossword puzzle in the New York Times, your answer for 43 Down, clued as "Scoundrel," was SCUMBAG. Most puzzlers, penciling in these letters, felt nothing more than mild satisfaction. But a small number knew enough to be outraged.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/06/158619-the-dirty-word-in-43-down-a-new-york-times-crossword-gaffe</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/06/158619-the-dirty-word-in-43-down-a-new-york-times-crossword-gaffe</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>new-york-times</category><category>dictionary</category><category>etymology</category><category>word-origin</category><category>vulgarity</category><category>public-discourse</category><category>crossword-puzzle</category><pubDate>Thu, 6 Apr 2006 17:26:26 +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 Deity in the Data By William Saletan</title>
<description><![CDATA[Warning: The surgeon general may determine that prayer is hazardous to your health. That's what can happen when faith sets out to prove its power through science.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/06/158612-the-deity-in-the-data-by-william-saletan</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/06/158612-the-deity-in-the-data-by-william-saletan</guid><category>health</category><category>surgery</category><category>recovery</category><category>prayer</category><category>heart-surgery</category><category>medicine</category><category>faith</category><category>nature-of-god</category><pubDate>Thu, 6 Apr 2006 17:21:45 +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 $tar of the Show</title>
<description><![CDATA[It's getting harder to see the TV show through the clutter of product placements]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/03/155110-the-tar-of-the-show</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/04/03/155110-the-tar-of-the-show</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>tv</category><category>advertising</category><category>television</category><category>hbo</category><category>product-placement</category><pubDate>Mon, 3 Apr 2006 20:23:28 +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 Read This Book!</title>
<description><![CDATA[I do not mean to suggest you judge a book solely by its cover; sometimes it's necessary to read the jacket copy before delivering yourself (and your wallet) safely from its clutches.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/31/151953-dont-read-this-book</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/31/151953-dont-read-this-book</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>books</category><category>marketing</category><category>humor</category><category>blurbs</category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:03:37 +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>Eight Sure-Fire Fiascoes That Unexpectedly Succeeded</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/28/149252-eight-sure-fire-fiascoes-that-unexpectedly-succeeded</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/28/149252-eight-sure-fire-fiascoes-that-unexpectedly-succeeded</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>box-office</category><category>tv</category><category>pink-panther</category><category>movies</category><category>success</category><category>lists</category><category>titanic</category><category>the-office</category><category>conan-obrien</category><category>the-passion-of-the-christ</category><category>charlies-angels</category><category>apocalypse-now</category><category>dances-with-wolves</category><category>fiasco</category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Mar 2006 01:23:49 +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>Saturday Mourning</title>
<description><![CDATA[Survivors of the Capitol Hill Massacre on the rave, the afterparty, and the hell that Kyle Huff unleashed]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/28/148263-saturday-mourning</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/28/148263-saturday-mourning</guid><category>shooting</category><category>seattle</category><category>murder</category><category>us-news</category><category>murder-suicide</category><category>shooting-spree</category><category>kyle-huff</category><category>capitol-hill-massacre</category><category>rave-culture</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:41:04 +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>Beatles And Jobs' Apple Come Together In Court</title>
<description><![CDATA[Apple Corps' four owners, Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono and Olivia Harrison (wives of the late John Lennon and George Harrison) want Jobs to break the link between the Apple brand and music products of Apple Computer and fork out millions of dollars in damages.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/28/148209-beatles-and-jobs-apple-come-together-in-court</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/28/148209-beatles-and-jobs-apple-come-together-in-court</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>brands</category><category>apple</category><category>ipod</category><category>trademark</category><category>itunes</category><category>beatles</category><category>steve-jobs</category><category>uk-high-court</category><pubDate>Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:22:09 +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 Ex-Mayor's Booby Prize</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Lusty Lady's not for sale, so he and some developer friends bought the sky above.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/26/146423-the-ex-mayors-booby-prize</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/26/146423-the-ex-mayors-booby-prize</guid><category>business</category><category>seattle</category><category>strip-club</category><category>developers</category><category>condos</category><category>gentrification</category><category>peep-show</category><category>lusty-lady</category><category>air-rights</category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:44:53 +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>Dawn of the Dead: Seven Dead, Two Injured in Early-Morning Seattle Shooting</title>
<description><![CDATA[The man who shot and killed six young people at a party this morning in Capitol Hill, before killing himself, was in his late 20s and was only an acquaintance to the victims, according to Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, who briefed reporters at a Saturday-afternoon press conference.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/26/146422-dawn-of-the-dead-seven-dead-two-injured-in-early-morning-seattle-shooting</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/26/146422-dawn-of-the-dead-seven-dead-two-injured-in-early-morning-seattle-shooting</guid><category>teenagers</category><category>suicide</category><category>shotgun</category><category>seattle</category><category>murder</category><category>us-news</category><category>rave</category><category>murder-suicide</category><category>shooting-spree</category><pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:37:40 +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>Seattle: It's not tunnel vs. viaduct, it's great vs. not great.</title>
<description><![CDATA[I just struck me. The choice on the viaduct is NOT about tunnel vs. rebuild, cheap vs. expensive.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/23/144186-seattle-its-not-tunnel-vs-viaduct-its-great-vs-not-great</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/23/144186-seattle-its-not-tunnel-vs-viaduct-its-great-vs-not-great</guid><category>tunnel</category><category>seattle</category><category>transit</category><category>waterfront</category><category>us-news</category><category>viaduct</category><category>seattle-politics</category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 23:08:50 +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>iPod, Therefore I Am</title>
<description><![CDATA[After 30 years as an outsider, Apple founder Steve Jobs is the white-hot center of mass-market media. His obsession with design is now America's: the machine has become the message. With the $7 billion Pixar deal, Disney—kingdom of content—is Jobs's new playground.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/23/143355-ipod-therefore-i-am</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/23/143355-ipod-therefore-i-am</guid><category>media</category><category>business</category><category>apple</category><category>pixar</category><category>steve-jobs</category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:28:32 +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>Students misbehaving could pay price for posting photos online</title>
<description><![CDATA[Students are slowly beginning to realize just how university administrators and faculty members are using the information they figured only friends would want to look at. And they don't like it.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/22/143117-students-misbehaving-could-pay-price-for-posting-photos-online</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/22/143117-students-misbehaving-could-pay-price-for-posting-photos-online</guid><category>technology</category><category>college</category><category>privacy</category><category>facebook</category><category>online-privacy</category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:42:16 +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>Today's packages can be murder to open</title>
<description><![CDATA[Consumer Reports, in fact, announced its first-ever Oyster Awards in this month's issue, with first prize going to the hard-plastic clamshell packaging for the Uniden Digital Cordless Phone set, which took nine minutes and 22 seconds to open -- not the longest, but by far the mos]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/22/143014-todays-packages-can-be-murder-to-open</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/22/143014-todays-packages-can-be-murder-to-open</guid><category>business</category><category>plastic</category><category>packaging</category><category>wrap-rage</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:25:34 +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 Girls Next Door: Life in the centerfold.</title>
<description><![CDATA[Taschen has just published "The Playmate Book: Six Decades of Centerfolds" ($39.99), by Gretchen Edgren, a contributing editor to Playboy, and the book is a testament to Hefner's fidelity to his vision.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/22/142891-the-girls-next-door-life-in-the-centerfold</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/22/142891-the-girls-next-door-life-in-the-centerfold</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>playmate</category><category>playboy</category><category>photography</category><category>hugh-hefner</category><category>book-review</category><category>pin-up</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:55:50 +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>Focus on foreign cash in 1974 crash</title>
<description><![CDATA[New revelations in the decades-old murder of a notorious Seattle strip club operator: killed by a hitman who thought he'd been double-crossed on a counterfeiting deal.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/22/142750-focus-on-foreign-cash-in-1974-crash</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/22/142750-focus-on-foreign-cash-in-1974-crash</guid><category>seattle</category><category>murder</category><category>strip-club</category><category>us-news</category><category>counterfeit</category><category>vice</category><category>cold-case</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:49:19 +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>CD has chapters, but Neko Case doesn't play by the book</title>
<description><![CDATA[Great review of Neko Case's new album and selections from an interview with her.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/21/141757-cd-has-chapters-but-neko-case-doesnt-play-by-the-book</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/21/141757-cd-has-chapters-but-neko-case-doesnt-play-by-the-book</guid><category>entertainment</category><category>interview</category><category>music-review</category><category>neko-case</category><category>fox-confessor-brings-the-flood</category><category>cd-review</category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:16:05 +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>Lewis Lapham Lights Up</title>
<description><![CDATA[Interesting interview and overview of Lewis Lapham's tenure as editor of Harper's magazine.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/21/141425-lewis-lapham-lights-up</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/21/141425-lewis-lapham-lights-up</guid><category>magazine</category><category>retirement</category><category>harpers</category><category>lewis-lapham</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:24:07 +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>Peter's Big Plan</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/21/140817-peters-big-plan</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/21/140817-peters-big-plan</guid><category>development</category><category>parking</category><category>city-council</category><category>seattle</category><category>us-news</category><category>downtown</category><category>urban-density</category><category>peter-steinbrueck</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:56:06 +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>Personal checks to go way of dinosaurs</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/21/140814-personal-checks-to-go-way-of-dinosaurs</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/21/140814-personal-checks-to-go-way-of-dinosaurs</guid><category>business</category><category>banking</category><category>predictions</category><category>checks</category><category>free-checking</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:52:25 +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>Competition forces corporate shake-up at Larry's</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Callan]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[James Callan]]></source><link>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/21/140813-competition-forces-corporate-shake-up-at-larrys</link><guid>http://scarequotes.newsvine.com/_news/2006/03/21/140813-competition-forces-corporate-shake-up-at-larrys</guid><category>business</category><category>downsizing</category><category>grocery</category><category>kirkland</category><category>larrys-markets</category><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:49:52 +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>
