<?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-7508520974336914152</id><updated>2012-02-16T03:39:07.892-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Signs of Emptiness</title><subtitle type='html'>Around 1995 I was doing a lot of driving in around New York and New Jersey and I started noticing a strange phenomenon almost everywhere  went: signs that stood in clear view of the highway and yet advertising nothing, having been abandoned for one reason or another.  I dubbed these frequently appearing visages 'Sign of Emptiness' and I seem to find them everywhere I go.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://signsofemptiness.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7508520974336914152/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://signsofemptiness.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>wild injun</name><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>8</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7508520974336914152.post-5877420709350326918</id><published>2007-04-30T00:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-04-30T01:01:36.525-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mattress store in a mall (Germany)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_CzW0plRM_no/RjWiRhpBN-I/AAAAAAAAAH0/Unl6hXT8GXU/s1600-h/SOEdeFEB07.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059128178392512482" style="FLOAT: left; 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