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Video
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Review: Sci-Fi Channel Original Pterodactyl
A Sci-Fi Channel winner. No, really. Yes, I mean it.
- Review: Brothers Grimm
- The Trailer Park: Doom (Part 2)
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Review: Crimen ferpecto
Some very funny moments not enough to consider it more than a second-rate farce.
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Bad News: 8/27/05
Hollywood is jumping with bad ideas and bad news this month.
- Review: Dragonwyck
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Review: The Brothers Grimm
Contains one of the most annoying performances ever. Thanks a lot Terry Gilliam.
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Review: The Constant Gardener
The Constant Gardner visually dazzles and tells a good story, but preaches from a soapbox.
- DVD Review: The Wedding Date
- DVD Review: Layer Cake
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Review: Stuck On You DVD
Quirky, surprisingly harmless fun.
Sci/Tech
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The Coral Reef Restoration Initiative
In the last 10 years or so there has been an alarming development in the oceans of the world. Coral reefs are dying because of an effect called Coral Bleaching.
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No More Lost Grannies?
Do you have problems with wandering relatives? Or do you yourself sometimes lose your way on the trip home from work?
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Google endorses open source XMPP with Google Talk
Google released a new IM client. What do we need it for?
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Painful Medicine
The question is, what are the 10-20 million Americans who suffer chronic pain or teminal illness to do?
Culture
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Mozart's head gone in wax museum theft
The life-size wax figure of Mozart displayed in a Salzburger (Austrian) museum is currently without its head.
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Preventing Identity Theft: Online Poker Site Demands ID then Retracts
Faxing photo id is a risky proposition, leaving you open to identity theft. Be forewarned and do not assume you have to comply.
- Blind Spots, Courteous Drivers and Killing with Kindness
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh-inspired items new on Amazon
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Needs and Wants: Two Cultures, Two Views.
In order to live a want free life one must have the awareness to understand where one's own personal fulfillment lies...
- This administration can't even grow good pot
- Bullish on Biodiesel
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Day By Day for August 27, 2005
Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for August 27, 2005
Politics
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Canadian Navy Headed Towards Hans Island, Sort Of...
The Canadian Defence Department has been put on alert and for the first time a Canadian frigate will patrol waters
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Canada Conspires To Torture Canadians
We may not have their resources, but when we put our minds to it, we can treat people as badly as the next country.
- A Tool of the Radical "Left"
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Two Year Hoax! The Fictitious Life, and Death, of Sgt Dan Kennings
For nearly TWO YEARS readers of the student newspaper, The Daily Egyptian in Carbondale, IL have been following the saga of Kodee Kennings
- X-Ray of President Bush's Head Reveals Intelligence Level
- The Left's War on Home Ownership
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A note to Pat Robertson on his recent thoughts regarding assassinations
We need our own dog gone fatwah, just like Pat says.
- US Government Sore Losers in Not So Neighbourly Dispute.
- The falsehoods of the Iraq War
- "W Stands For"...?
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Hate Speech: Does The GOP Get It When It Comes To Race?
The Republican Party will have a serious demographic problem in the future if they don't capture a larger share of the minority vote than they do today, and they are desperately trying to "reach out" to minorities that traditionally vote Democratic.
- Pat Robertson blames hurricanes on Satan
- A year of blogging: from The First Amendment to Intelligent Design
- Our new "I don't give a damn" President
Gaming
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PS2 Review: Samurai Western
Fun for long time fans of the genre, and it could find a small audience elsewhere.
Books
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Book Review: On Basilisk Station by David Weber (Honor Harrington #1)
Thrilling battle scenes and a graceful, forceful, intelligent woman with a core of steel make these my favorite for rereading.
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Book Review: The Last Knight by Norman F. Cantor
With snapshots of medieval life, Cantor side-lines mental baggage gleaned from film, fiction and comic strips.
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Book Review: The Little Guide To Your Well-Read Life by Steve Leveen
Most of us tend to be passive readers, moving from one word to the next, eager to cross the finish line...
Music
- Review: Gabriel James "In The Hands Of Fools
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CD Review: The Stooges - The Stooges & Fun House
How many times can we use the word raw to describe The Stooges? Let's find out!
- Review: Rosemary Clooney - Ballad Essentials Review
Sports
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Indians and Mascots
Social stereotypes and race issues in contemporary America
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