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	<title>The Book of Benjamin</title>
	<link>http://ben.pulpomagenta.com</link>
	<description>or how I came to love Franklin</description>
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		<title>Ben Franklin is a College Professor, a Researcher of Eternal Life, knows how to drive a Car and is friends with a Ninja</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah no, wait... that´s his clone. ]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.pulpomagenta.com/2010/04/20/dr-mcninja/</link>
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		<title>We´re going to be friends, Suzy Lee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of everyday history, the Surrealists, a maniquin, a preacher, the correspondance between Benjamin Franklin and David Hume, Wisdom and Gold, friendship, and Franklin as a Philosopher.]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.pulpomagenta.com/2010/02/18/we%c2%b4re-going-to-be-friends-suzy-lee/</link>
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		<title>Mastermind Team</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A propos of the article by Dave Thackeray Secrets of Design Superheroes…, in which he calls designers to join or create Mastermind Groups and where he mentions Benjamin Franklin, I decided to look into what Ben called the Junto.
Franklin describes the Junto as &#8220;a club of mutual improvement&#8221;. The rules stated that each member (Dave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.pulpomagenta.com/2010/02/17/mastermind-team/</link>
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		<title>Fit Benjamin or Benjamin before the $100 dollar bill picture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are used to seeing Ben as a fat and replete man in his pictures and we think <em>so what happened to </em>temperance, frugality<em> and </em>moderation<em>?</em>]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.pulpomagenta.com/2009/11/16/fi-benjamin/</link>
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		<title>Acting the part: The clear and practical mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We act all the time, depending on the circumstances, sometimes by choice, others we realize just after (but then that would be <em>reacting</em>). 

Why is acting then, other than the profession of acting, thought most of the times as a negative way to conduct ourselves?]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.pulpomagenta.com/2009/10/04/the-clear-and-practical-mind/</link>
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		<title>Parenthesis II: On the importance of needing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Needing as a means to belong.

And when revisited, on the difference between <em>needing</em> and <em>necessity</em>]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.pulpomagenta.com/2009/09/23/parenthesis-ii-on-the-importance-of-needing/</link>
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		<title>Who´s the Ass?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Like most times, I need not say anything since most likely, Benjamin already wrote it some place and in a clearer way than I could ever manage.

Here´s a fable for your enjoyment.]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.pulpomagenta.com/2009/09/09/who%c2%b4s-the-ass/</link>
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		<title>All 13 Virtues &#8212; along with their precepts in ascending order from easiest to hardest according to Benjamin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility...]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.pulpomagenta.com/2009/08/26/all-13-virtues-along-with-their-precepts-in-ascending-order-from-easiest-to-hardest-according-to-benjamin/</link>
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		<title>Parenthesis I: On change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How does Franklin fit in this fast new world of text-scanners and stop-over-travellers?

A look at Alessandro Baricco´s book <em>I Barbari. Saggio sulla mutazione</em> and his 200-year-apart perspective of the new barbarians.]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.pulpomagenta.com/2009/08/08/parenthesis-i/</link>
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		<title>The 13 Original Virtues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Franklin´s original list only had 12 virtues, actually. He added <em>humility</em> afterwards as to humble his attempt by accepting his lack of humbleness in accordance to the wise old saying: "humility has meaning only for a Subject who prides". Ok, so that´s not a saying, but it could be. Heiddegger...

Working on it...]]></description>
		<link>http://ben.pulpomagenta.com/2009/07/29/the-13-original-virtues/</link>
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