December 2008
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RT @Newsweek: Begley: The scientific case to allow cousins to wed: http://tinyurl.com/9k35de It’s not just for royals anymore.
Dec 31st
RT @geoffkeighley: Reportedly this is the full “Rock Band” integration you never saw at the end of Eagle Eye: http://is.gd/eg44.
Dec 31st
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Skynet Watch: 30GB Zunes Failing Everywhere, All... →
Either Skynet is culling the weak first, or this is a distraction as Skynet prepares to go after the entire Apple line of products while we’re all distracted by New Year’s Eve. (Via Still Not Going To Do This Every Day.)
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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NSFW 'Crank 2' Promotional Reel →
Definitely not safe for work, people. Oh, and it’s pretty loud too.
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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“With that, Master Legend unloads about his troubles. It’s tough being a...”
– an excerpt from a recent Rolling Stone story about real-life superheroes titled, “The Legend of Master Legend.”
Dec 31st
Question of the Day: Is Detox the new Chinese Democracy?
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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“For the first time in four decades, a researcher has repeated the Milgram...”
– excerpt from a recent New York Times column titled “Four Decades After Milgram, We’re Still Willing to Inflict Pain.”
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
A Symposium On Game Reviews. Topic 1: Review... →
Dec 29th
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“We get stereotyped so much….Look, people are going to think what they’re...”
– Portland Trailblazers forward Channing Frye, whose “primary World of Warcraft character is ‘Dookiedrawls,’ a level 76 gnome frost mage—though he maintains he’s not as serious about the game as Utah Jazz forward Andrei Kirilenko, who has a ‘really nice’ level 80...
Dec 29th
Level Up's Top Five Gaming Tidbits for December... →
(via highscore)
Dec 29th
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“I wanted to bring happiness to people, to remind them not to hate, but to love...”
– Holocaust survivor Herman Rosenblat, in a statement explaining why he falsely claimed to have first met his wife while both were children on opposite sides of a concentration camp fence in his now-canceled memoir “Angel At the Fence.” (Via the New York Times.)
Dec 29th
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“I didn’t agree with it. I didn’t want anything to do with it. I tried to just...”
– Ken Rosenblat, speaking with The New Republic about his father Herman and his mother Roma’s deceptions in Herman Rosenblat’s now-canceled memoir, “Angel At the Fence.”
Dec 29th
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“Whereas the Penguin Publishing book Angel at the Fence was a non fiction account...”
– —excerpt from a statement by film producer Harris Salomon, whose Atlantic Overseas Pictures had purchased the rights to Herman Rosenblat’s now-canceled memoir, “Angel At the Fence.” (He also told the New Republic in a separate interview that he wants Rosenblat to make another...
Dec 29th
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“I pulled Bryan aside the night before press began and I said, ‘We need to...”
– —screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie on the Bryan Singer-directed film “The Usual Suspects.” (Via The Associated Press.) It doesn’t matter either way, because the important thing is that a) Keyzer Sose’s story bought him enough time to escape and b) entertained us in...
Dec 28th
RT @Newsweek: Interesting: Have you guys played with http://tweetree.com/ ? What do you think?
Dec 28th
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“Musicians have to eat and want to be heard, and if that means accompanying...”
– excerpt from Jon Pareles’ New York Times article titled “The New Pop Music Revolution—Pitching Products.”
Dec 28th
California Love: http://is.gd/dJsz
Dec 27th
The Curious Case of Smith & Wesson: http://is.gd/dDj4
Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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LET’S GO, LAKERS! CLAP CLAP CLAPCLAPCLAP!
Dec 26th
Pause: http://is.gd/drI3
Dec 25th
Dec 25th
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Does your Rock Band band need a ringer? http://is.gd/dkYq
Dec 25th
Trailer for Gomorrah: http://is.gd/don3
Dec 25th
First, let’s give all the aspiring lawyers free tuition: http://is.gd/dopZ
Dec 25th
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
Dec 25th
LittleBigFallout: Sackboy’s Edge. Part I (http://is.gd/dnw0), Part II (http://is.gd/dnwv)
Dec 25th
Old school Xmas raps from Run-D.M.C. (http://is.gd/9XvK) and MC K.L.G. (http://is.gd/1kZn)
Dec 25th
Bungie’s Early Xmas Gift: See Beyonce and an unmasked Master Chief in her new video http://is.gd/dmZm
Dec 24th
Ground Zero →
youwillbeassimilated: Google Maps meets nuclear weapons: “This mapplet shows the thermal damage caused by a nuclear explosion. Search for a place, pick a suitable weapon and press ‘Nuke It!’” Note to self: Using an asteroid to take out Williamsburg is not a good idea, as it turns Crown Heights into collateral damage. Not to mention the rest of North America.
Dec 24th
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Merry Christmas Everyone!
frangry: Here’s Donatella Versace in a bikini. Don’t say I never gave you nuthin’! SNAAAAAAAAKE!
Dec 24th
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WatchWatch
Head-To-Head: A Belgian MTV safer sex public service announcement. (Via Ads of the World.)
Dec 24th
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Incisive Thoughts On Our Dying Media, Part 1 (http://is.gd/d9TP) and Part 2 (http://is.gd/cYN5)
Dec 23rd
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“[T]he Chinese wall, right, the idea of advertisements as separate from the...”
– author and NYU instructor Clay Shirky in an interview with the Columbia Journalism Review.
Dec 23rd
Really? http://is.gd/d8ze
Dec 23rd
No, stradamus: http://is.gd/aLTh
Dec 23rd
RT @ShawnElliott: http://tinyurl.com/9zat2s — the zombie apocalypse comes to Java.
Dec 23rd
RT @ShawnElliott: http://www.mojang.com/notch/j4k/l4kd/ — Um, this would be the correct “zombie apocalypse comes to Java” link. My bad.
Dec 23rd
Foreign Policy: The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008 →
Dec 23rd
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