<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>Crazy raspberry ants invade Houston, destroy electronics : 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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It sounds like some weird kind of ant treat.</i></div>Well I've had chocolate covered ants, so yeah, I'd be game for raspberry ants.]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/15/2008 4:01:10 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-15T16:01:10+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>257868</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61889/1/xml_widget.rss#q5</url><title><![CDATA[mewhitenoise @ 5/15/2008 11:05:14 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[crazy raspberry ants, I love that name. It sounds like some weird kind of ant treat.]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/15/2008 11:05:14 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-15T11:05:14+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>257835</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61889/1/xml_widget.rss#q4</url><title><![CDATA[pocksucket @ 5/15/2008 9:55:54 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/science/l/61889/1/#q3"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>letter10</b>&#160;:&#160;so do they sell sugar-free electronics?  is this something i should request next time incase the crazy ants of texas make it across the oklahoma border?</i></div>Diet computers.  It's the future.]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/15/2008 9:55:54 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-15T09:55:54+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>257828</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61889/1/xml_widget.rss#q3</url><title><![CDATA[letter10 @ 5/15/2008 9:53:01 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><a class="page-dull td" href="/science/l/61889/1/#q2"><b>&laquo;</b></a>&nbsp;<i><b>pocksucket</b>&#160;:&#160;It's an old problem and it's pretty well understood.<br/><br/>Some types of insulating coatings on PCBs contain sugars (don't know what kind, probably cellulose related though) which the ants are attracted to.</i></div>so do they sell sugar-free electronics?  is this something i should request next time incase the crazy ants of texas make it across the oklahoma border?]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/15/2008 9:53:01 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-15T09:53:01+01:00</atomdate></comment><comment><id>257769</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/61889/1/xml_widget.rss#q2</url><title><![CDATA[pocksucket @ 5/15/2008 8:22:39 AM]]></title><content><![CDATA[<div class='qp pad d'><i>Worse, they, like some other species of ants, are attracted to electrical equipment, for reasons that are not well understood by scientists.</i></div>It's an old problem and it's pretty well understood.<br/><br/>Some types of insulating coatings on PCBs contain sugars (don't know what kind, probably cellulose related though) which the ants are attracted to.]]></content><score></score><crdate>5/15/2008 8:22:39 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-05-15T08:22:39+01:00</atomdate></comment></items></xml>