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	<title>Jason Cochran</title>
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		<title>A ride on L.A.&#8217;s Angels Flight</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An as-if-you-are-there video, without commentary or too many cuts, of a ride on the historic Angels Flight Railway in Los Angeles.]]></description>
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		<title>Signs that your favorite website is a post mill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Post mills can undermine the Fourth Estate, allow marketing and PR departments to manipulate our media as their mouthpiece, and leave the watchdogs sleeping. An entire generation of people is growing up without an understanding that the people who bring them their news have hastily recycled it, without checking how it got to them.]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit Airlines alleges conspiracy because it can&#8217;t pretend airfares are $9</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/travel-sellers-whiny-emails-about-the-new-dot-tax-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Travel sellers are sending customers disingenuous emails about the new DOT fare quote rules. Spirit Airlines' fear-mongering email is typical of the false victimhood that hucksters hide behind these days.]]></description>
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		<title>Seven things Facebook and Google get wrong about you</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/seven-things-facebook-and-google-get-wrong-about-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the major sites we use now purport to be able to "customize" what they show you based on what you've looked at before. But this worrying fascination is built on some logical lapses about who we are and what our behavior really exposes about ourselves.]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re not a very good capitalist</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/youre-not-a-very-good-capitalist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too many people seem to think hard work is the same thing as 'capitalism.' In truth, almost all of us work hard to put the fruit of our labor in an investor's pocket. Look at your life if you doubt me.]]></description>
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		<title>A mesmerizing HD drive through South Dakota&#8217;s Badlands</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This video of Badlands National Park in South Dakota is seductive. It's a nearly four-minute, uninterrupted shot of the driver's view as he travels east on Badlands Loop Road (240) as it prepares to intersect with 377 near Interior, South Dakota.]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful mistakes my camera made</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My digital camera is an artist. It didn't screw up my pictures in some mundane way. It inserted some wry counterpoint and some beautiful geometric juxtapositions. It elevated my own commentary into works of art that I now happily claim as my own creations.]]></description>
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		<title>Real recordings of bygone people: Actual voices of Queen Victoria, Houdini, and Lenin</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/real-recordings-of-bygone-people-voices-of-queen-victoria-houdini-and-lenin/</link>
		<comments>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/real-recordings-of-bygone-people-voices-of-queen-victoria-houdini-and-lenin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many historic recordings have finally migrated online so we can all hear them. Because it's so energizing to close your eyes and feel these printed names come alive again, I've linked a few here. ]]></description>
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		<title>My little YouTube video soars past 1 million views</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/video/my-little-youtube-video-soars-past-1-million-views/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That day, I was sick as a dog. I should have been in bed. But how often am I in Tokyo? So I walked everywhere I could. I was in the neighborhood of Shibuya, crossing in an overpass, when I saw something that astonished me.]]></description>
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		<title>Jason Cochran, porn star</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/jason-cochran-porn-star/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first, I didn't know whether to be flattered or insulted that my adoring public was thinking of me that way. Then, I had a sinking feeling that maybe I did something at last year's Christmas party that slipped my memory.]]></description>
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		<title>The financial incentive for providing bad service</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/the-financial-incentive-to-providing-bad-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 05:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When businesses charge customers more for the "good" variety of their product, they are admitting their core product is substandard. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Oklahoma!&#8221; is one of the dirtiest movie musicals of all time</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/articles/oklahoma-is-one-of-the-dirtiest-movie-musicals-of-all-time/</link>
		<comments>http://jason-cochran.com/articles/oklahoma-is-one-of-the-dirtiest-movie-musicals-of-all-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 02:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may think the musical Oklahoma! is a sweet little show about friendly farmers and cowmen, but I&#8217;ve got an arousing awakening for you. Oklahoma! is drenched in sexual innuendo, rape metaphor, and bestiality references. After all, the whole plot revolves around who gets to take Laurey to the &#8220;box social&#8221; — a coded consummation <a href='http://jason-cochran.com/articles/oklahoma-is-one-of-the-dirtiest-movie-musicals-of-all-time/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>As Universal drains Jaws for the last time, I recall my time as Skipper</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/as-universal-drains-jaws-for-the-last-time-i-recall-my-time-as-skipper/</link>
		<comments>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/as-universal-drains-jaws-for-the-last-time-i-recall-my-time-as-skipper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharks must keep moving or they die. What we have here is a dead shark. Universal Orlando just announced that it&#8217;s eliminating the Jaws ride at Universal Studios Florida. It was one the last of the rides that was original to the park&#8217;s 1990 opening. (Well, sort of original. It&#8217;s a retool of a hitchy <a href='http://jason-cochran.com/blog/as-universal-drains-jaws-for-the-last-time-i-recall-my-time-as-skipper/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>If it happened online, it still happened</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/if-it-happened-online-it-still-happened/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s pervasive concept that things that happen online deserve a whole different set of words to describe them. We contend daily with new words that there really don&#8217;t need new words for, such as hyperlocal, content, and that gossipy reduction of a complex social trend, meme. In the beginning of our collective online existence, techies invented <a href='http://jason-cochran.com/blog/if-it-happened-online-it-still-happened/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes travel delays your life&#8217;s true calling</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/sometimes-travel-delays-your-lifes-true-calling/</link>
		<comments>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/sometimes-travel-delays-your-lifes-true-calling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to say it, but someone should. Sometimes travel isn&#8217;t enough. I know I have made travel, and the discussion of how anyone can do it, one of the central themes of the last 15 years of my life. And the world of magazines, blogs, and Twitter encourage me daily to maintain that. My <a href='http://jason-cochran.com/blog/sometimes-travel-delays-your-lifes-true-calling/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>When gangs of thugs put out your fires: Boss Tweed, Obamacare, and Big Pharma</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/when-gangs-of-thugs-put-out-your-fires-boss-tweed-obamacare-and-big-pharma/</link>
		<comments>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/when-gangs-of-thugs-put-out-your-fires-boss-tweed-obamacare-and-big-pharma/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 14:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GOP presidential aspirants are getting a lot of mileage by demonizing the potential of a civic health care system, but they clearly don&#8217;t know history. We&#8217;ve actually done something like this before in another area of our health and safety. Take this example from the history books: Boss Tweed. The refrains from the nattering <a href='http://jason-cochran.com/blog/when-gangs-of-thugs-put-out-your-fires-boss-tweed-obamacare-and-big-pharma/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>$600 a night and not a drop to drink</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/600-a-night-and-not-a-drop-to-drink/</link>
		<comments>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/600-a-night-and-not-a-drop-to-drink/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the first day of this month, the New York nightmare happened to me. The apartment beneath me caught fire. The girl who lives there wasn&#8217;t at home, but I&#8217;m lucky I was, because I had just returned from three weeks away. I&#8217;m fortunate my apartment wasn&#8217;t empty, because I smelled the smoke, then I <a href='http://jason-cochran.com/blog/600-a-night-and-not-a-drop-to-drink/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why I peck</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently gently accused me of being too vocal on Twitter about bad customer service. &#8220;Do I henpeck too much?&#8221; I asked her. &#8220;It&#8217;s what makes you you,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Keep pecking.&#8221; Being a consumer reporter is one of the things I do. Being a travel writer, too, is a form of consumer reporting. <a href='http://jason-cochran.com/blog/why-i-peck/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A radical proposal to save the U.S. Postal Service</title>
		<link>http://jason-cochran.com/blog/a-radical-proposal-to-save-the-u-s-postal-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Postal Service lost $3 billion last quarter, and now its masters intend to cut overnight delivery, slow down mail, and close facilities (particularly in poor neighborhoods). Government-hating Teabaggers whinge, but the fact is that while the Postal Service is federally mandated, it does not receive taxpayer money. So if we&#8217;re going to <a href='http://jason-cochran.com/blog/a-radical-proposal-to-save-the-u-s-postal-service/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ago: The 9/11 account I wrote then, there</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Cochran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote this post on September 18, 2001. I haven&#8217;t changed a word. I titled it &#8220;Ago.&#8221; + + + + + + That morning, I was awakened by the silence. I don&#8217;t recall what woke me up early, at 8:45 a.m., but it must have been something. Probably something I heard in my sleep, <a href='http://jason-cochran.com/blog/ago-the-911-account-i-wrote-then-there/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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