<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>U.S. paper money discriminates against the blind : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/law/</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>62581</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/62581/1/</url><title><![CDATA[U.S. paper money discriminates against the blind]]></title><description><![CDATA[A federal appeals court today upheld a 2006 ruling that U.S. paper money discriminates against the blind. The decision may force the Treasury Department to redesign the currency, which might result in bills that are different sizes or embossed with raised markings.]]></description><comments>20</comments><score>228</score><crdate>5/20/2008 11:56:28 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-20T23:56:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6634</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/6634/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Federal judge rules paper money is unfair to the blind.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Soon we won't be able to short change sightless people anymore.]]></description><comments>7</comments><score>37</score><crdate>11/29/2006 8:27:37 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-29T08:27:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>30302</id><url>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/30302/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Money cityscapes]]></title><description><![CDATA[delicately cut paper currency forming the skyline of major cities.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>115</score><crdate>8/5/2007 3:05:34 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-05T03:05:34+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>18461</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/18461/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blind ambition sees pilot Miles set record]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blind pilot Miles Hilton-Barber felt euphoric when he touched down at Sydney's Bankstown Airport just before 8am, becoming the first blind man to fly halfway around the world.<br/><br/>Update on an <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/17714/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">earlier post</a>.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>40</score><crdate>4/30/2007 2:13:37 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-04-30T02:13:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>62606</id><url>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/62606/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Cool Stuff You Can Do With Paper Money!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Paper money folded to make interesting figures.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>344</score><crdate>5/21/2008 4:25:58 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-21T04:25:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>58102</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/58102/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is]]></title><description><![CDATA[Republican John Campbell introduced in the House his <i>&quot;Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Act,&quot;</i> which would amend the tax code to allow donations to the federal government above one's tax liability. <br/><br/>Mr. Campbell says he has heard the &quot;cries&quot; of those wealthy Americans &#8211; Clinton, Buffett, Streisand who complain that they and their fellow rich don't pay enough.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>115</score><crdate>4/13/2008 6:11:55 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-13T18:11:55+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>51425</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/51425/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Collection of drawn money]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since 1998, this Burrito restaurant owner collects money drawn by people who use USA national currency as artistic medium.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>416</score><crdate>2/20/2008 11:29:15 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-20T11:29:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>5621</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/5621/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Eating in total darkness, served by blind waiters.]]></title><description><![CDATA[New restaurant opens in London, Dans Le Noir.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>14</score><crdate>11/13/2006 9:49:30 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-13T09:49:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57101</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57101/1/</url><title><![CDATA[U.S. Currency Tracking Project]]></title><description><![CDATA[Do you ever wonder where that paper money in your pocket has been, or where it will go next? This is the place to find out.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>71</score><crdate>4/5/2008 2:07:28 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-05T02:07:28+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>49526</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/49526/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Follow the Oil Money]]></title><description><![CDATA[Find out which candidates receive the most money from big oil companies.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>281</score><crdate>2/5/2008 5:44:19 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-05T17:44:19+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>40676</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/40676/1/</url><title><![CDATA[November 5th money bomb]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ron Paul supporters have created a grass roots campaign to raise money on November 5th. There are over 1300 videos on youtube dedicated to the subjects and many webpages too. This graph shows the total being raised on November 5th, and it is updated every other hour.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>56</score><crdate>11/5/2007 12:31:37 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-11-05T12:31:37+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>73248</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/73248/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blind Frenchman fined for drunk driving]]></title><description><![CDATA[A blind journalist was given a month's suspended jail sentence and fined 500 euros (750 dollars) by a French court Friday for driving while drunk and without a license.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>120</score><crdate>8/22/2008 10:56:54 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-22T10:56:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>69168</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/69168/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blind dog gets by with own guide dog]]></title><description><![CDATA[A blind dog has grabbed headlines in Norway after it was reported today that she is able to live quite a normal life, thanks to her own leader dog.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>476</score><crdate>7/18/2008 10:07:16 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-18T10:07:16+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44298</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44298/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The Color Blind, And how They View the World.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Very interesting look on how the color blind see things compared to normal sight.]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>497</score><crdate>12/15/2007 8:54:00 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-15T08:54:00+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>14487</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/14487/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Send Instant Messages and Money from the Same Window]]></title><description><![CDATA[Skype 3.2 beta for Windows has been just announced. This time, you can send money to your contacts using PayPal. Both the sender and the recipient must need a PayPal account for this feature to work.<br/>If the recipient doesn&#8217;t have a PayPal account, he can set it up, even after the money has been sent.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>20</score><crdate>3/29/2007 10:18:57 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-03-29T10:18:57+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>58253</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/58253/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Blind runner finishes seven marathons in seven days]]></title><description><![CDATA[A blind British runner became only the third person ever to complete seven marathons on seven continents in seven days when he crossed the London Marathon's finish line on Sunday.<br/><br/>Update to: <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/53317/1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plime.com/l/53317/1/</a></div>]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>122</score><crdate>4/14/2008 7:13:33 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-14T19:13:33+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>72330</id><url>http://www.plime.com/weird/l/72330/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Lying about finding money to catch people who'd lie about losing money]]></title><description><![CDATA[The problem with posting a &quot;found cash&quot; notice on Craigslist is that a note like this might churn up some liars, and it did!<br/><br/>For some reason, I found this quite entertaining!]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>160</score><crdate>8/14/2008 3:37:25 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-14T03:37:25+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>56830</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/56830/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Porn for the Blind (NSFW audio)]]></title><description><![CDATA[<b>The</b> least erotic thing you'll ever not see.<br/><br/>Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. <br/><br/>HAhahahahahahaha you <b>need</b> to check out the forth one down. God help the blind!!]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>21</score><crdate>4/3/2008 5:13:18 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-03T05:13:18+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>39456</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39456/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Giuliani: Blind Should Be Able to Carry Guns]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;You have a constitutional right, that is protected, to bear and carry arms. It is the Second Amendment,&quot; Giuliani told about 200 attendees in a high school gymnasium in Lebanon. &quot;If someone disagrees with that, you have to get the Constitution changed.&quot;<br/><br/>The man is right, but I'm suddenly afraid to walk up to a blind person.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>43</score><crdate>10/24/2007 5:59:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-24T17:59:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>53920</id><url>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/53920/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Siafu, The PC for Blind People]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've never seen anything like this, it looks incredible. A new type of PC for blind people. I can't describe it very well, so have a look.]]></description><comments>11</comments><score>493</score><crdate>3/11/2008 5:55:15 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-11T17:55:15+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>29830</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/29830/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mother accused of faking child's death for money]]></title><description><![CDATA[While she was out trying to collect money , her 13-year-old daughter was waiting outside, in the car.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>73</score><crdate>8/1/2007 3:47:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-08-01T15:47:51+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>