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	<description>Eyolf Østrem on Dylan, Computers, and then some</description>
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		<title>17. mai-tale i Balestrand, 1983</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is the &#8220;17 May speech&#8221; my father gave in 1983. In Norwegian again, I&#8217;m afraid. * Her følger min fars 17.-mai-tale fra 1983. Det var  årets hovedtale ved 17. mai-feiringen i Balestrand ved Sognefjorden, holdt fra toppen av en gravhaug fra vikingetida, foran alle bygdas gode menn og kvinner, bunadkledde og feststemte, nøyaktig [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/08/17-mai-tale-i-balestrand-1983/</link>
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		<title>Sommersamtale med Knausgård</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lyssna: Sommar i P1 med Karl Ove Knausgård &#160; Karl Ove Knausgård har vært sommergjest i svensk radio. Det var tenkt som halvannen times uforpliktende småprat om løst og fast, men sånn kunne det selvfølgelig ikke bli. I stedet kom det til å handle om: «hva betyr det å være norsk? Hva vil det si [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/08/sommersamtale-med-knausgard/</link>
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		<title>Why ABB Shouldn&#8217;t Be Roasted Over a Slow-Burning Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m outraged &#8212; by my own wish that Anders Behring Breivik be treated as a human being. My basest instincts would love to see him fry in a very earthly hell. But although the though of him living on and perhaps even coming out into society 21 years from now, in principle cleared of his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/07/why-abb-shouldnt-be-roasted-over-a-slow-burning-fire/</link>
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		<title>A Monument of Civilization?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It now seems that the atrocities in Oslo and Utøya were commited by a single person. I think we can rule out completely any kind of organization. Apparently, the killer &#8211; a tall, blond native Norwegian, age 32, who speaks the local dialect &#8211; was taken to the island on the organizers&#8217; own boat. Now, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/07/a-monument-of-civilization/</link>
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		<title>Guitar in Two Weeks, day 13: Open Tuning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finally &#8211; it took more than a year, but here&#8217;s the next lesson: on open tunings. I have had three life-changing epiphanies in my life as a guitar player. The first was the first time I tried a twelve-string guitar. I realized that the fullness of that sound was what I had been dreaming of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/07/open-tuning/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;I Stole A Song&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At last: I&#8217;ve found it! Not the holy grail, not the place where pencils and single socks live, but the melody to Steel Guitars, James Damiano&#8217;s composition that Dylan stole and used for his song Dignity. [see  this if you don't have a clue what I'm talking about (and this and this if you're still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/07/i-stole-a-song/</link>
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		<title>Last Words on Dignity (the song, that is)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The story so far I&#8217;ve been involved with the Damiano-Dignity &#8220;case&#8221; now for more than a decade. Here&#8217;s a summary, and my last words (I hope) on this matter. Act One: Musicological Inquiries When I first heard that Dylan had stolen &#8220;Dignity&#8221; from a poor songwriter, James Damiano, I was more sympathetic towards the victim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/07/last-words-on-dignity-the-song-that-is/</link>
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		<title>Ooops, I did it again (&#8230; and I like it!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I&#8217;m into chess these days. Another game, another opponent supposedly stronger than me. Unlike last time, I had only seen a couple of his previous games, so the only thing I had to go by was that he seemed to be quite happy to get pieces off the board. It&#8217;s not that he was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/05/ooops-i-did-it-again-and-i-like-it/</link>
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		<title>Possibly My Best Game of Chess</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve woved to stick to music, dylan, politics and computers, but allow me a digression into the wonderful world of chess. I&#8217;m not a great player, but I&#8217;m not a bad player either. I&#8217;ve never played in a club &#8212; I just enjoy the occasional game of chess with my good friend Jens. I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/04/possibly-my-best-game-of-chess/</link>
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		<title>Four Simple Facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I&#8217;ve been concerned, these past few weeks, about the future of Egypt, Libya, Tunis, and the other countries where the people (the People? which people? &#8212; Sorry, just a digression) have been revolting; about why the revolters are chanting &#8220;Allah&#8217;u akbar&#8221;; about what is true and what is not about Al-Qaida and the Muslim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/02/four-simple-facts/</link>
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		<title>Bliss, understanding, and power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ten points to those who know which important document the following quotation comes from: If one group of people wears white clothes in mourning and another group puts on black, the sentiment of each group will be adjusted according to these two colours, i.e., one group rejects the black colour on such an occasion while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/02/bliss-understanding-and-power/</link>
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		<title>Can Anything Good Come From North Carolina?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some times things move quickly. In a couple of minutes, one gets a handful of friends for life. Here&#8217;s How After more years than I care to think about as a somewhat (some people might say) autistic Dylan listener, I woke up one day with the urge to find out what had happened in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2011/02/can-something-good-come-from-north-carolina/</link>
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		<title>The Brazil Series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It can&#8217;t be easy: to be a painter and be called Bob Dylan. If one exhibits one&#8217;s pictures, most of the visitors will be fans of the musician Bob Dylan who probably show up mainly because they love his songs, or to find hidden references to Visions of Johanna. Then there are the curious ones, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2010/12/the-brazil-series/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Why don&#8217;t you also block &#8230;?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I receive a lot of suggestions of other countries to boycott. Turkey, North Korea, Sudan, etc. So why don&#8217;t I also block them? 1. This is not a crusade against every injustice in the world. It is a contribution to the cultural boycott of Israel because of its treatment of Gaza and the Palestinians, as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2010/06/why-dont-you-also-block/</link>
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		<title>Anti-Hamas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I was going to take a break from this now, but there is one more thing I need to state more clearly, and thanks to all who have reminded me of this (and I&#8217;m not being sarcastic here): Everything I&#8217;ve said about truth, propaganda, and predetermined morals could and should be used against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2010/06/anti-hamas/</link>
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