<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866064919844392557</id><updated>2011-11-27T16:20:27.072-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Golden Guide</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegoldenguide.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4866064919844392557/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegoldenguide.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ben</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040782149057452944</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866064919844392557.post-7995886975318501855</id><published>2006-12-06T23:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-12-06T23:02:07.597-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Bechers</title><content type='html'>I just learned about Bernd and Hilla Becher's work last month, and I'm a bit obsessed now. Apparently, I'm not alone. &lt;a href="http://www.gravestmor.com/wp/archives/2006/06/25/becher-on-becher-by-kahn/"&gt;(link)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4866064919844392557-7995886975318501855?l=thegoldenguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegoldenguide.blogspot.com/feeds/7995886975318501855/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4866064919844392557&amp;postID=7995886975318501855' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4866064919844392557/posts/default/7995886975318501855'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4866064919844392557/posts/default/7995886975318501855'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegoldenguide.blogspot.com/2006/12/bechers.html' title='Bechers'/><author><name>Ben</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040782149057452944</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866064919844392557.post-3521878608086797256</id><published>2006-11-21T21:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-21T21:42:42.548-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SlTvSUCCqPo"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SlTvSUCCqPo" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Athletics are going to Fremont to become the &lt;a href="http://www.athleticsnation.com/story/2006/11/14/164720/05"&gt;San Jose Athletics of Fremont&lt;/a&gt;. Maybe they could just extend the Mighty Duck franchise to baseball and switch to the Silicon Valley Mighty Ducks of Fremont. That has a nice ring to it.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4866064919844392557-3521878608086797256?l=thegoldenguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegoldenguide.blogspot.com/feeds/3521878608086797256/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4866064919844392557&amp;postID=3521878608086797256' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4866064919844392557/posts/default/3521878608086797256'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4866064919844392557/posts/default/3521878608086797256'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegoldenguide.blogspot.com/2006/11/athletics-are-going-to-fremont-to.html' title=''/><author><name>Ben</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040782149057452944</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866064919844392557.post-2152509187229606637</id><published>2006-11-20T22:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-20T22:21:57.433-08:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;object width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lUcTvhyof8I"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lUcTvhyof8I" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Stroszek played here on Saturday but I was too lazy to go. I figured I could just find the legendary final scenes on Youtube without leaving my home. Which I could. And did. &lt;a href="http://www.sfmoma.org/calendar/calendar_event.asp?eventid=990&amp;etype=2&amp;func=repeat"&gt;Werner Herzog retrospective at SFMOMA. &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4866064919844392557-2152509187229606637?l=thegoldenguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegoldenguide.blogspot.com/feeds/2152509187229606637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4866064919844392557&amp;postID=2152509187229606637' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4866064919844392557/posts/default/2152509187229606637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4866064919844392557/posts/default/2152509187229606637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegoldenguide.blogspot.com/2006/11/stroszek-played-here-on-saturday-but-i.html' title=''/><author><name>Ben</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040782149057452944</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866064919844392557.post-2124454529041948684</id><published>2006-11-18T20:48:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-18T20:50:26.101-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Golden Guide to Flam, Norway</title><content type='html'>&lt;table style="width:auto;"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/ben.ewing/FlamNorway/photo#4996696802909159442"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.google.com/image/ben.ewing/RVfVRMO7ABI/AAAAAAAAABY/gvJSEY35ISI/s288/DSC01899.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="font-family:arial,sans-serif; font-size:66%; text-align:right"&gt;From &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/ben.ewing/FlamNorway"&gt;Flam, Norway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is Flam at night.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4866064919844392557-2124454529041948684?l=thegoldenguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegoldenguide.blogspot.com/feeds/2124454529041948684/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4866064919844392557&amp;postID=2124454529041948684' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4866064919844392557/posts/default/2124454529041948684'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4866064919844392557/posts/default/2124454529041948684'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegoldenguide.blogspot.com/2006/11/golden-guide-to-flam-norway.html' title='The Golden Guide to Flam, Norway'/><author><name>Ben</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040782149057452944</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866064919844392557.post-4490552838999848418</id><published>2006-11-18T16:01:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-18T16:08:02.413-08:00</updated><title type='text'>"Ten percent of the weight of a two year old pillow may be composed of dead mites and their droppings."</title><content type='html'>I'm in the market for some new pillows - but after reading &lt;a href="http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/video/mite.html"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt;, I'm considering switching to a wadded up sweatshirt instead.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4866064919844392557-4490552838999848418?l=thegoldenguide.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thegoldenguide.blogspot.com/feeds/4490552838999848418/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4866064919844392557&amp;postID=4490552838999848418' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4866064919844392557/posts/default/4490552838999848418'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4866064919844392557/posts/default/4490552838999848418'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thegoldenguide.blogspot.com/2006/11/ten-percent-of-weight-of-two-year-old.html' title='&quot;Ten percent of the weight of a two year old pillow may be composed of dead mites and their droppings.&quot;'/><author><name>Ben</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/02040782149057452944</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4866064919844392557.post-2511000014570459164</id><published>2006-11-18T15:45:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2006-11-18T15:45:38.282-08:00</updated><title type='text'>In the beginning...</title><content type='html'>&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="2"&gt;&lt;embed style="width:400px; 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