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		<title>Do Hybrids Equal Savings?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 07:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With gas prices going through the roof, many people have contemplated buying a new car, particularly a gas/electric hybrid, to drastically improve their gas mileage and lower their gas bill.  But are the savings people are getting really all they're cracked up to be?
Don't get me wrong.  I'm all for saving the environment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing On The Head Of a Pin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 07:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previously I discussed a letter from reader Scott about parts per billion, and we had plenty of fun discovering that the allowable level of lead in drinking water was equal to about a shot glass in an olympic size pool.  But reader Scott had brought up parts per billion as part of a larger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing the Calculators Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 08:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
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Check out that snazzy new calculator to your left, baby.  Sleek, stylish, and oh-so embeddable.  Embeddable?  Yes, I've set it up on the new calculators page so there's a small block of code underneath each calculator, easy to copy and paste into your blog or web site and get the calculator to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#039;s The Great Space Coaster... Ummm... Elevator</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 07:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently in my travels, I was alerted to the upcoming Space Elevator Conference happening in Redmond, Washington in July with Microsoft as a major sponsor.  Of course, the moment I read "space elevator," being a proud member of generation X, the theme for "The Great Space Coaster" started going through my head.  
And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To the Moon, Alice</title>
		<link>http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/04/to-the-moon-alice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that inspired me to create this blog was a blog post about CafePress where I expressed unhappiness about how much time a new policy of theirs would cost their shopkeepers.  I came up with a figure of 25,000 hours, then did some Rough Equivalents.  One of my favorites (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circling the Earth with Licorice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Bulmash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a very long distance around our planet, very long indeed.  With a diameter of approximately 8,000 miles we multiply by Pi (3.14159) to get the circumference (distance around) and come up with roughly 25,132 miles around.  
If you believe Wikipedia's facts about Earth, it's 25,046.5 miles.  Let's split the difference and [...]]]></description>
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