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Archive for December, 2005
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Thursday, December 29th, 2005

I like to read Ars Technica for their coverage of technology, but Anders Bylund has stepped way outside of his depth and should stick to technology.

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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Thank god for the international release…
Between it’s relatively weak showing domestically ($121 million so far) and it’s larger international release ($154 million so far), Kong has at least recouped it’s production budget ($207 million).

It remains to be seen whether the picture is actually profitable yet. After all, the $207 million is just production. [...]

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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

This study is apparently thirteen years old, but it won an Ig Nobel Prize for Medicine last year and just came to my attention. It’s something we have known all along, but science has now confirmed it. Country music makes white people kill themselves.
Yup. It’s true. The study showed that in [...]

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Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

I’m somewhat disturbed this morning. I just looked at my traffic stats and saw something that makes me uneasy.
A week ago, I posted some thoughts on the movies Hostel and Wolf Creek. In the post, there was a reference to the inspiration for Hostel and the fact that the director had seen a [...]

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Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

I really don’t understand what is going on with the Bush Administration. For a President who claims he is a huge fan and student of Reagan, he is doing a lot of things that ring hollow when compared to the Great Communicator. The latest example really leaves me with a bad taste in [...]

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