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		<title>The Gamification of Everything Might be a Bad Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a fan of the work of Jane McGonigal, but as I think about the details of the actual school day at Brightworks and consider the use of game mechanics to engage children in the day to day tasks of keeping the place shipshape, I face some concerns. Ideas like Chore Wars certainly have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gevertulley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2283163&amp;post=160&amp;subd=gevertulley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A (Hypothetical) Genetic Basis for Extranormal Powers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was chatting with a friend about ghosts and ancestor worship recently, and put forth the notion that if a genetic mutation allowed you to exist (in some form) beyond the death of your body, and *if* you could influence the physical world in some way (however limited), then you might behave in a manner [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gevertulley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2283163&amp;post=150&amp;subd=gevertulley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canonical List of Talks (available as video)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 20:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of my speaking engagements have been captured on video and rather than keep digging up the links every time someone asks where to find them, I now keep this list updated. TED 2007 Five Dangerous Things (you should let your children do) Some thoughts on the dangers of over-protection and five (or six, depending [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gevertulley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2283163&amp;post=132&amp;subd=gevertulley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Jewel Thief, the Cliff Diver, and the Tinkerer.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 00:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many of my teenage years, I assumed that I would grow up to be a jewel thief. Please keep in mind that I was a child of the 60&#8242;s and largely considered rich people to be exploiters of the common man &#8211; especially those with the excess income necessary to acquire jewelry. It was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gevertulley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2283163&amp;post=129&amp;subd=gevertulley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Interview That Didn&#8217;t Get Used</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agreed to an email interview for a blog recently, and then let the questions get buried in an inbox avalanche. Some time later, and very late at night, I noticed an urgent reminder from her&#8230; here follows my somewhat philosophical answers (most of which did not make it into the article). 1. What is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gevertulley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2283163&amp;post=112&amp;subd=gevertulley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book 2.0</title>
		<link>http://gevertulley.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/book-2-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took us a year to make a book, but we spent almost 8 months pitching various versions of the ideas to publishers and waiting to hear responses. This is time that is lost, never to be reclaimed, and the best I can say for that period is that we learned a lot about a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gevertulley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2283163&amp;post=105&amp;subd=gevertulley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travelogue: Last Day in Doha</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[//Doha//Thursday//Departure//0400 The alarm clicks on, and a singer fills the pre-dawn room with exotic consonants over a heavy background of strings and a plucked ood. It is 4am here, and in an effort to get on California-time, I will immediately commence to pretend that it is 5pm. I extricate the daily slippers from the plastic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gevertulley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2283163&amp;post=101&amp;subd=gevertulley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hex-tree GPS Encoding</title>
		<link>http://gevertulley.wordpress.com/2009/12/09/hex-tree-gps-encoding-getting-geeky-with-the-python-crew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of attending PyWebSF and struck up a conversation with my old friend Tadhg about the idea of creating a web service (a&#8217;la http://bit.ly) that would provide a unique short GPS &#8220;tag&#8221; for any arbitrary GPS location. You can read Tadhg&#8217;s excellent accounting of the discussion here. I didn&#8217;t write any code [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gevertulley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2283163&amp;post=90&amp;subd=gevertulley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travelogue: First Day in Doha</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[//Doha//Monday//WISE2009//Day One Life in a hotel is simple for conference attendees. You wake up knowing what you will wear, where you will eat (but not what), and what you are doing the rest of the day. I find serendipity only in the face-to-face encounters with other attendees. I have animated discussions with educators and policy-makers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gevertulley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2283163&amp;post=80&amp;subd=gevertulley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travelogue: From There to Here &#8211; Doha</title>
		<link>http://gevertulley.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/travelogue-from-there-to-here-doha/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[//Saturday//East-bound We are flying east, across the top of the Atlantic, racing toward daylight. Our flight-path creates a mechanical compression of time, collapsing 12 hours of night into 5 elapsed hours. We lose the normal advantages of economy of scale in these long-haul flights. Fourteen hours in the air, requires enormous fuel reserves, and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=gevertulley.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2283163&amp;post=79&amp;subd=gevertulley&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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