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I am starting a running count of how many iPods I see everyday on the way to work. My commute is from Montrose (Blue Line) to Chicago (Blue Line), and on the Chicago Ave. bus (#66) from Milwaukee to Orleans. I am basing my tabulation on sighting the conspicuous white earbuds, or the iPod itself. [...]
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At age 91, ex-FBI chief Mark Felt has told Vanity Fair, “I’m the guy they used to call Deep Throat.”
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» Autodesk’s 3ds Max will support PS3 development » Sony gives release date for PS3 » Nintendo announces strategy for next-gen console » PS3 vs. X360 (addict3d.org) » Microsoft’s Xbox 360 Vs. Sony’s PlayStation 3 (IGN) » Do you trust Microsofts Xbox 360/PS3 comparison? (joystiq) » Some Xbox 360 versus PS3 numbers (Cold Forged) » The Games of PlayStation 3: Uncovered! (IGN) » Hideo [...]
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The Salvation Army closed its Strawberry Field home and childcare provision on Beaconsfield Road in Liverpool today. The center was, of course, immortalized by The Beatles in 1967 and closes “after 69 years of looking after Liverpool’s disadvantaged youngsters”. In 1997, after a semester in Sevilla, Spain, I made a pilgrimage to the famous red, [...]
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You know who you are! (Damn, what’s wrong with me?)
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Any good sci-fi is really about the present, albeit clad in silver spacesuits or dragon-proof chainmail. A story about a galactic empire’s tightening vise grip on a peacefully democratic republic of planets is bound to have parallels in history, recent and ancient alike. But it just so happens that our very own moment in history [...]
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Just watched the trailer for Bomb the System, a new graffiti-themed independent movie. My hopes of it being “Wild Style” for the New Schoolers were instantly dashed. Why? A) The star is white. B) The graff looked terrible. C) There are guns in it. D) The white guy’s VO says, “We just wanted to make [...]
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Last night Sony unveiled their next generation console, the PS3. Macworld tells us that the PS3 has “35 times the performance of the processor inside the current PlayStation 2″. Its main processor — the Cell chip (jointly created by Sony, Toshiba and IBM) — “is based on IBM’s PowerPC architecture and will have seven cores, [...]
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My site suffered the equivalent of a heart attack and many files were zeroed (reduced to 0KB). Now that I’ve finally had a chance to reinstall MovableType, I see that the damage wasn’t as extensive as feared. After missing a payment (I’m poor), my hosting company (OLM, good people) denied me access to my site, [...]
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