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books

Create Your Own Luck

…encouraged the telegraph operators to set up a display case in the station offering high quality watches for a cheap prices to all the travellers. It didn’t take long for

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documentary entertainment games

The Top Ten best 8-bit Games

Check out the top ten best 8-bit games as rated by the Game Trailer Countdown. A couple of my favorite 8-bit games, Tetris and Excitebike, didn’t make the cut, but…

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life

House Warming

I’ve been down in the dumps for the past week thinking about how things didn’t pan out so well with Kim and me during her last week here before field…

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Miscellaneous

My Oscar Picks

There is less than an hour before the Oscars air. I’ve decided to make some predictions again this year. Best Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody – Juno I loved the writing…

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Apple technology

Apple Special Event

…year Apple sold more iPads than all of the notebooks of the competitors combined. I think it’s worth taking a moment to just think about what that means? All competitors…

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Miscellaneous

Wikipedia: The World’s Free Encyclopedia

While writing a paper for my New Media Seminar class, I submitted a couple of paragraphs from it to a previously empty link on Wikipedia’s Free Encyclopedia page. The submission…

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language

Contronyms

…to separate Clip: To fasten, or detach Consult: To offer advice, or to obtain it Continue: To keep doing an action, or to suspend an action Custom: A common practice,…

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animation

Big Buck Bunny

…Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, so it’s free to watch and distribute so long as the credits are attached. Theoretically you could even download the source files, remix the movie and…

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Miscellaneous

So Long and Thanks For All the Fish

…using a program like Getright to enable efficient downloading of that many MP3 files). Update: The Mediawhore.wi2600.org link to Douglas Adams media archive is down. I guess copyright / bandwidth…

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coding

Scrumdinger

…assumed I didn’t need to download the Scrumdinger “starting project” because if that was the case, then how would I be able to make an app myself? Eventually I discovered…