<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Dumb Laws : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><link><id>63345</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/63345/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Dumb Laws]]></title><description><![CDATA[What are the dumb laws of your state?  These are only US laws.  If you have weird or dumb laws in your country, please share.]]></description><comments>21</comments><score>327</score><crdate>5/27/2008 12:00:32 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-27T12:00:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44000</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44000/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Animal Cruelty Laws]]></title><description><![CDATA[Information from the Humane Society of the United States on animal cruelty laws in your state.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>245</score><crdate>12/12/2007 5:24:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-12T17:24:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>30418</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30418/1/</url><title><![CDATA[stupid laws]]></title><description><![CDATA[for example: With the exception of carrots, most goods may not be sold on Sunday.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>114</score><crdate>8/6/2007 10:23:23 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-06T10:23:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>59470</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/59470/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Website Is Told They Must Pay $30k To Offer Oregon's Laws To Their Viewers]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is some seriously f'd up crap. The laws that we live under should be freely and easily available. The laws that we pay to have drafted and enforced should be public domain by their very nature. Copyrighting things like the numbering system is an obscene work-around.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>310</score><crdate>4/23/2008 6:24:01 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-23T18:24:01+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45849</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45849/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Craziest Laws in America]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a list of crazy laws in American history. Most of the laws listed below were repealed by now but there are many crazy laws on the list that are still being used.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>187</score><crdate>1/2/2008 10:27:22 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-02T22:27:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>38024</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/38024/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Weird Sex Laws &amp; Punishments]]></title><description><![CDATA[Such as &quot;The penalty for masturbation in Indonesia is decapitation.&quot;]]></description><comments>13</comments><score>309</score><crdate>10/11/2007 3:40:34 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-11T15:40:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>25737</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/25737/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Calamity Game]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Calamity Game is a Flash sandbox where you can set up scenes that unfold based on simple laws of physics acting on a rag doll. These scenes can be shared with the community of Calamity Game users, who can view the scene you have created and then build upon it.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>84</score><crdate>6/29/2007 10:02:29 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-29T22:02:29+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>32133</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/32133/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Big Brother State]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Big Brother State is an educational film about what politicians claim to be protection of our freedom but what we refer to as repressive legislation.<br/><br/>Since terrorism has become a global threat, especially after 9/11, governments all over the world have started enforcing laws which, so the governments say, should increase national security. <br/><br/>These laws obviously aim at another goal: the states gaining more and more control of their citizens at the cost of our privacy and freedom.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>112</score><crdate>8/18/2007 10:02:19 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-18T22:02:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>4340</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/4340/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Outrageous Laws]]></title><description><![CDATA[Websites like this make you wonder whether there's any reason to the madness we call our legal system.<br/>For ex: in Alabama it's illegal to have an ice cream cone in your back pocket at any time, and in Wyoming you may not take a picture of a rabbit during the month of June.  <br/>!?!]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>11</score><crdate>10/24/2006 10:03:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-10-24T22:03:05+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>81152</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/81152/1/</url><title><![CDATA[ Bush rushes through 'harmful' environment laws ]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the US presidential candidates sprint toward the finish line, the Bush administration is also sprinting to enact environmental policy changes before leaving power.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>217</score><crdate>11/6/2008 12:42:31 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-11-06T00:42:31+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50894</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/50894/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Gov't cracks down on fun in Central-Asian republic of Tajikistan]]></title><description><![CDATA[Citizens are literally bankrupting themselves throwing ridiculously large wedding and birthday parties.  Tajik government declares no more entire-village parties.<br/><br/>Here's the irony: for every breach of the new money-saving laws, party throwers are fined up to $300.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>97</score><crdate>2/16/2008 11:21:00 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-16T23:21:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>20327</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20327/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Ancient Laws Of The Pirate]]></title><description><![CDATA[As written by Blackbeard himself.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>17</score><crdate>5/14/2007 8:18:05 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-05-14T20:18:05+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>