<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : barnacle bill : XML WIDGET</title><link>http://www.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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All this despite the promise Obama of a 5-day wait before any bill was signed into law.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>260</score><crdate>6/26/2009 3:24:23 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-06-26T15:24:23+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>45539</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/45539/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Barnacle Bill, Bimbo &amp; Betty Boop - 1930]]></title><description><![CDATA[&quot;Who's there knocking at my door? Who's there knocking at my door? Who's there knocking at my door?&quot;<br/><br/>&quot;It's Barnacle Bill, the sailor&quot;<br/><br/>This is an early version of the Betty Boop character.]]></description><comments>2</comments><score>194</score><crdate>12/30/2007 10:53:41 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-30T10:53:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>50433</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/50433/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill Clinton's former campaign manager expected to endorse Obama.]]></title><description><![CDATA[It seems Obama is getting quite the momentum. Perhaps we will see Bill on his cabinet after all.]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>88</score><crdate>2/13/2008 12:53:26 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-13T12:53:26+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>131967</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/131967/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill would give president emergency control of Internet]]></title><description><![CDATA[The new version of the bill would allow the president to &quot;declare a cybersecurity emergency&quot; relating to &quot;non-governmental&quot; computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>412</score><crdate>8/29/2009 4:21:37 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-08-29T16:21:37+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>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>93417</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/93417/1/</url><title><![CDATA[What got cut from the stimulus bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[The bill is still laden down with billions of pork and very little of it will actually create jobs or even help the economy (likely the opposite) but at least they cut out some tiny amount of waste.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>139</score><crdate>2/8/2009 12:36:13 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-02-08T12:36:13+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>128917</id><url>http://www.plime.com/science/l/128917/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Hot secret behind toucan's bill ]]></title><description><![CDATA[For centuries, scientists have puzzled over why the toucan's bill is so remarkably large - but now one team thinks it might have an answer.<br/>Infrared footage shows how a toucan uses its bill to regulate its temperature to stay cool.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>211</score><crdate>7/24/2009 2:00:30 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-07-24T14:00:30+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>74321</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/74321/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Russell Crowe to play Bill Hicks?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a recent interview Russell Crowe let slip that he is involved in a Bill Hicks biopic.]]></description><comments>4</comments><score>179</score><crdate>8/31/2008 9:38:41 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-08-31T09:38:41+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>57938</id><url>http://www.plime.com/arts/l/57938/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Ten Thousand Cents]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ten Thousand Cents&quot; is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. 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>80014</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/80014/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Fla. woman chooses to go to jail over $7.45 bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman decided to go to jail rather than pay her bill at a Fort Pierce Waffle House restaurant. The total she went to jail over: $7.45.]]></description><comments>6</comments><score>313</score><crdate>10/22/2008 9:23:35 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-10-22T09:23:35+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>116448</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/116448/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Verizon Willing To Let  Man Die Unless Cops Pay $20 Of His Overdue Bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[The cops got a call that the man was rampaging around his house and breaking windows. When they arrived, the man had fled, taking bottles of pills with him. The sheriff contacted Verizon to ask them to turn the man's cellphone service on so they could track his signal, but the operator said the missing man's bill had to be paid first...]]></description><comments>8</comments><score>447</score><crdate>5/23/2009 2:23:54 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-05-23T02:23:54+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>83716</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/83716/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Bill O' Reilly to quit radio]]></title><description><![CDATA[[sarcasm]I know this will make many of you cry[/sarcasm] but Bill O'Reilly has announced that he will step down from his very successful syndicated radio show.]]></description><comments>9</comments><score>242</score><crdate>12/5/2008 5:50:27 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-12-05T17:50:27+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>135433</id><url>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/135433/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote]]></title><description><![CDATA[Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was &quot;absolutely&quot; committed to doing so.]]></description><comments>12</comments><score>248</score><crdate>11/6/2009 12:57:31 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2009-11-06T12:57:31+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>82281</id><url>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/82281/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Woman's one cent bill paid in full]]></title><description><![CDATA[An outstanding utility bill could have caused an elderly blind woman her property. 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