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  "html": "<p>If the new <a href=\"http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/\">Yahoo! Maps</a> were <em>really</em> cool, they'd've already done a mashup with <a href=\"http://track.dhl-usa.com/\">DHL</a> to let me obsessively stalk the courier in whose truck my returning iPod repair currently rests.  </p>\n<p>Come on, get with the program!  When we've got <a href=\"http://www.garmin.com/products/forerunner201/\">GPS watches</a>, \"<code>Status: With delivery courier / Location: (blank)</code>\" is no way to track a package!  In the meantime, my <a href=\"http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2005/11/02/repetitive_information_injury.html\">repetitive information injury</a> is flaring up as I refresh, refresh, refresh, refresh...</p>\n<!-- tags: yahoo hacks programming maps ipod -->\n",
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