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Xml

a: Xml ~
b: Cardboard

What: "Self Describing - Cardboard like XML can have information printed on is. "Contains one TV and cables. Made in Japan". Likewise XML has element and attribute names to describe the contents of the package, the data. Cardboard like XML is a self describing material." The article has more.

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Writer: LucretiaGermanica
LCC: QA
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Date: Jun 8 2010 9:34 AM


Yes Yes And Yes

a: American politics ~
b: one giant homeowners association

What: Then I realized: American politics is like one giant and unwieldy homeowners association, rife with the sort of people who post lists telling their neighbors when they are forbidden to use the communal pool."

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Writer: jimmyboi2
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Date: Nov 18 2012 12:32 PM



a: pollination ~
b: junk mail

What:

"Wind pollination is like junk mail. Pollinating insects are like FedEx "


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Writer: Catalina Pimiento
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Date: Jan 21 2015 1:24 PM



a: Poetry ~
b: Onion

What:

"Poetry is like an onion, the reader decides how deap they want to go. I write poems to let out ideas and emotions that are too entangled to explain in a normal paragraph. "


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Writer: Folkers E. Rojas
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Date: Jun 2 2015 4:41 PM



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