Monday, November 20th, 2006
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Why are music covers and movie remakes so popular? Assuming you can manage to get it out there with all the copyright licensing issues, its much more likely for a new take on an old success to become rapidly popular, so its a much safer investment. The population ...
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
Live blogging from the Daily Show ...this is super cool. Set is much smaller than I thought but it lends itself to a pretty intimate feel for the crowd.
...ok sorry...had to turn off my phone. Go figure! The Daily Show filming requires participation and a lot of energy screaming your ...
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Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
Coffee enriches my life in so many ways: socially, gustatorily, as a surrogate for other vices, but most of all by fighting the somnolescence induced by a historical avoidance of any kind of regular sleeping pattern. Not being a morning person, my business probably would cease to function if ...
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Friday, February 10th, 2006
Funny if you have a "crackberry" or know someone who has one:
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Friday, October 7th, 2005
I've been watching the whole intelligent design (ID) controversy from the sidelines for some time with mixed feelings. My focus in university was evolutionary biology. I spent quite some time working in a laboratory for experimental evolution (working with microbes with no artificial genetic modifications - strictly natural processes were ...
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004
This eastern Canadian was up until 3AM election night until it was pretty clear what was going to happen down south. With much of the world I followed this US election closely because we all know thanks to the 2000 election that who the Americans choose (I mean who gets ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2004
Speaking of mud slinging in politics, perhaps this explains how George got really good at playing dirty. Anyone who knows the sport of rugby (somewhat akin to mud wrestling) will be particularly appalled!
I like to think of one's sports persona as reflecting one's character. In a recent book about the ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2004
Minority Reporting
It seems that going to war was a politically and economically sound decision for the Republicans. A pre-emptive war seems like a risky political gamble and reminds me of Minority Report (or "Wolfowitz's Report"). Furthermore when the war turns out to be based on misinformation and degenerates into incredibly ...
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Saturday, August 14th, 2004
The Onion has written yet another doozie about George Bush's weblog.
For those of you who do not know of The Onion and its place as a leader of satirical news reporting...do not fall into the trap that many have, as reported in this article from Wired: Onion Taken Seriously, Film ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2004
From a very talented group atmo: "Are you tired of hearing politicians talk? Well, hear them sing instead. Listen to Saddam Hussein singing Imagine. Or to the love duet featuring Bush and Blair." Interesting format for social commentary.
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