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  <body>Has the dour news of the financial world got you down? The cost of living going up and your checking account going down? Here is some good news for all of you whose entertainment budgets are getting cut lower than the bass in that song "Brass Monkey" by the Beastie Boys.

It's the Gigbot Rock and Roll bailout! Well, not really but in Gigbot's humble-modest-mechanized way, the shows will go on and now you have some easy ways to make sure you are there. &lt;strong&gt;Free Tickets&lt;/strong&gt; are now being given away at Gigbot. &lt;a href="http://www.gigbot.net/contests"&gt;Check out the contest page&lt;/a&gt; to see what tickets Gigbot has found. And check back often, tickets are starting to be found. They're good shows too - ones you'd wanna go to. So sign up now and find a friend cause you just might win!

&lt;em&gt;(Full disclosure: Gigbot's own retirement fund - a Simple IRA - is invested heavily in  the technology sector (robotics and AI), has taken a beating. But then again, do robots ever retire? or just get upgraded..... then again, do they ever grow old in the first place? hmm....)&lt;/em&gt;</body>
  <created-at type="datetime">2008-10-10T15:21:19-06:00</created-at>
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  <publish-at type="datetime">2008-10-10T14:57:00-06:00</publish-at>
  <title>Ticket Give-Aways now at Gigbot!</title>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2008-10-10T15:26:50-06:00</updated-at>
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