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I don’t even know where to begin telling you all the things that are wrong with this book. When I got it, I assumed that it would be the normal video-game-apologist fare, citing the studies that say video gaming sharpens hand-eye coordination and debunking the naysaying of twits like Hillary Clinton. Oh, how wrong I [...]

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§1110 · April 30, 2006 · 1 comment · Tags:


I don’t know whether to envy someone who performs a live reenactment of a Mario Bros. level or pity them.

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§1108 · April 28, 2006 · 1 comment · Tags: ,


The “Last day of the semester” edition. Adrian Belew • Sunlight Tenhi • Ciwenkierto Jason Falkner • Song for Her Magyar Posse • Singlesparks are spectral fires Radiohead • Idioteque Vast • Thrown Away Second Coming • Tonight My Dying Bride • For You Sun Kil Moon • Glenn Tipton Aesma Daeva • Hymn to [...]

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§1106 · April 28, 2006 · 5 comments · Tags:


Ha! I love you, John Hodgman.

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§1105 · April 27, 2006 · (No comments) · Tags:


Economics are hardly my strong suit. Whether that is a cause or effect of my general abstinence from economic tracts remains to be seen. However, I’d been hearing such good things about Friedman’s book that when I passed it in a library a few weeks ago, I decided to give it a try. Were I [...]

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§1104 · April 24, 2006 · 6 comments · Tags: , ,


Or something like that. This wonderful person has done a detailed analysis of MySpace using Google and its various query triggers. It all started when I wanted to find a reason why the core of my Internet-saturated being hates Myspace. For fun one day, I searched within Myspace’s profiles for the following phrases: 9620: “I’m [...]

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§1103 · April 23, 2006 · (No comments) · Tags: