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		<title>Free Software Alternatives to Adobe CS6</title>
		<link>http://www.artsnova.com/blog/2013/05/14/561/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 22:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Plaxco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adobe CS6 Alternatives In 2012 Adobe released CS6. What set this release apart from previous versions was the licensing path that Adobe has chosen. For more information about the Adobe Creative Cloud model, see Adobe&#8217;s Creative Cloud FAQ. While I have been using Photoshop since Photoshop 5, it wasn&#8217;t until CS4 was released that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NSS Roadmap to Space Settlement Student Art Contest</title>
		<link>http://www.artsnova.com/blog/2013/05/02/558/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 20:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Plaxco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASA Moon Base Credit: NASA I enjoy judging art contests. I particularly enjoy judging space art contests. I concluded my most recent space art judging experience Monday evening. In this case it was judging the student art that had been submitted to the National Space Society&#8217;s Roadmap to Space Settlement Student Art Contest. The goal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NewSpace Frontier and Astronomy Day</title>
		<link>http://www.artsnova.com/blog/2013/04/15/554/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Plaxco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Astronomy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NewSpace Frontier This Saturday is Astronomy Day and once again I will be giving a presentation as a part of the Harper College Astronomy Day activities. The principal sponsor of the event is the Northwest Suburban Astronomers and is cosponsored by the Harper College Department of Physical Sciences. I&#8217;m a regular speaker at this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comet Spotting: Pan-STARRS</title>
		<link>http://www.artsnova.com/blog/2013/03/14/550/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Plaxco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comet Pan-STARRS as viewed from Schaumburg IL, 3/13/13 Last night I headed to an artificial hill constructed by the Schaumburg Park District that is probably the highest ground location relative to the surroundings within a 20 minute drive of my home. From that outdoor perch I had hopes of seeing Comet Pan-STARRS. I was in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Day at Yerkes Observatory: Mars and Astronomical Art</title>
		<link>http://www.artsnova.com/blog/2013/03/11/545/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Plaxco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Algorithmic Art]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Astronomical Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Observatory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Packing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star party]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yerkes Observatory,Williams Bay, WI This Saturday March 16 I will be participating in both a teacher workshop and a public star party at Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay WI. This will be my first time visiting Yerkes in a long time. Aside from my duties that day, I hope that I have sufficient time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Art and the Artsnova Web Site Redesign</title>
		<link>http://www.artsnova.com/blog/2013/03/02/536/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Plaxco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Digital Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artsnova Web Site Redesign Before (left) and After (right) Finally after a couple months of somewhat intermittent work I have deployed the redesigned version of my Artsnova Digital Art Gallery web site. One big consequence of the redesign is that I now have a much larger portion of my art online. Prior to the redesign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capricon Science Fiction Convention &#8211; Artificial Intelligence</title>
		<link>http://www.artsnova.com/blog/2013/02/01/531/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 22:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Plaxco</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[SF Cons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Capricon]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Digital Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mars]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Capricon Science Fiction Convention: Artificial Intelligence I am quite looking forward to next week&#8217;s Capricon Science Fiction Convention. The theme for this year&#8217;s convention is artificial intelligence, which is an area of computer science that I find fascinating. One aspect of artificial intelligence that interests me is the thought of AIs as the creators [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for Submissions to Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus</title>
		<link>http://www.artsnova.com/blog/2013/01/24/529/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 03:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Plaxco</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Media-N, Journal of the New Media Caucus is making an open call for submissions to the Reviews, Reports and Papers section of their Spring 2013 issue. The deadline for submission is March 15th. The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board will review submissions and selected authors will be notified by March 30th. The Reviews, Reports and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spam Spam Spam Spam Comments</title>
		<link>http://www.artsnova.com/blog/2013/01/08/523/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Plaxco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spam spam spam spam A week ago I upgraded my blog&#8217;s version of WordPress. A big downside of that upgrade was that a couple of &#34;tricks&#34; I had put in place to defeat the spambots were undone. As a consequence my inbox for moderating comments found itself filled with around a thousand comments. Unwilling to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Facebook Fan Page Widget</title>
		<link>http://www.artsnova.com/blog/2012/12/12/516/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Plaxco</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web Design]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Artsnova Facebook Fan Page As a consequence of a change in Facebook policy I&#8217;ve decided to drop the Facebook widget promoting my Facebook Artsnova fan page from my blog&#8217;s sidebar. I also plan on changing how I use my Facebook fan page. The policy change that has led me to this course of action [...]]]></description>
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