<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>The $2 Bill : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). 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Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool.  Site also has a video with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>518</score><crdate>4/11/2008 10:54:08 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-04-11T22:54:08+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>43664</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/43664/1/</url><title><![CDATA[New Bill Could Make You a &quot;Terrorist&quot;]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;The end of Free Speech in America has arrived at our doorstep. It's a new law called the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, and it is worded in a clever way that could allow the U.S. government to arrest and incarcerate any individual who speaks out against the Bush Administration, the war on Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security or any government agency (including the FDA). The law has already passed the House on a traitorous vote of 405 to 6, and it is now being considered in the Senate where a vote is imminent.&quot;<br/><br/>This blog summarizes the bill and links to the full text.]]></description><comments>27</comments><score>287</score><crdate>12/9/2007 5:16:32 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-09T05:16:32+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>68232</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/68232/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill ]]></title><description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Bowing to President Bush's demands, the Senate approved and sent the White House a bill Wednesday to overhaul bitterly disputed rules on secret government eavesdropping and shield telecommunications companies from lawsuits complaining they helped the U.S. spy on Americans.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>94</score><crdate>7/9/2008 10:11:22 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-07-09T22:11:22+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>54089</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/54089/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A Colorful $5 Bill Is Coming Your Way]]></title><description><![CDATA[Coming soon to a cash register near you: a new $5 bill sporting some touches of color for the first time.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>273</score><crdate>3/13/2008 2:11:40 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-03-13T02:11:40+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>25258</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/25258/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Bailey Kraftwerk Tribute]]></title><description><![CDATA[Klassik Bill Bailey.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>17</score><crdate>6/26/2007 4:32:51 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-06-26T16:32:51+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45878</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45878/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Mesa boy, 7, gets bill in bike-van crash]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jessica Brovitch was relieved when her 7-year-old son was only scraped and bruised after a van collided with his bicycle on Nov. 9. But she was shocked when the child later received a bill for $650.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>174</score><crdate>1/3/2008 2:35:44 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-01-03T02:35:44+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>44061</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44061/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Shock at $85k mobile phone bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Canadian man has been shocked to receive a mobile phone bill for nearly $85,000]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>103</score><crdate>12/13/2007 9:43:06 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-13T09:43:06+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>72142</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/72142/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The best Fire Marshall Bill Ever]]></title><description><![CDATA[Jim Carrey as Fire Marshall Bill on the Star Ship Enterprise.]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>-6</score><crdate>8/12/2008 8:59:39 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-12T20:59:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>38586</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/38586/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Presentation of the Homeland Terrorism Prepareness Bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[Politician presents a bill for approval of the congress.<br/>Very clear bill and totally worth the tax payer's money ;oP]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>21</score><crdate>10/17/2007 2:16:39 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-17T02:16:39+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>46274</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/46274/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates Just May Be Cooler Than Steve Jobs]]></title><description><![CDATA[At least in this video he is. 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Perhaps we will see Bill on his cabinet after all.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>103</score><crdate>2/13/2008 12:53:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-13T12:53:26+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>67046</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/67046/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates to Step Down from Microsoft]]></title><description><![CDATA[The chairman of Microsoft and one of the world's richest men, Bill Gates, is stepping down from his job running the world's largest software company.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>67</score><crdate>6/28/2008 3:30:36 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-28T15:30:36+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>39856</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/39856/1/</url><title><![CDATA[The rare early works of Bill Watterson]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here's a collection of rare early Bill &quot;Calvin and Hobbes&quot; Watterson's toons from The Kenyon Collegian, his college paper from Kenyon, Ohio. 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That's what a man was seeking Saturday when he handed a $1 million bill to a cashier at a Pittsburgh supermarket. But when the Giant Eagle employee refused and a manager confiscated the bogus bill, the man flew into a rage.]]></description><comments>10</comments><score>311</score><crdate>10/9/2007 8:40:58 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-10-09T08:40:58+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>6245</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/6245/1/</url><title><![CDATA[A lifetime of Taco Bell...for a Playstation 3]]></title><description><![CDATA[The company is giving $12,500 in Taco Bell Bucks to whoever donates the console.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>5</score><crdate>11/21/2006 10:35:29 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2006-11-21T10:35:29+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>