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Sci/Tech
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Hurricane Wilma Comes to Florida
South Florida is threatened again. Another hurricane will do what it wants. The scientists will make projections. Right or wrong.
- Half of All U.S. Teens Now Have Cell Phones - Safety Concerns Loom
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Government Dots Printer Pages With Secret Yellow Dots
Pages coming out of your printer may contain hidden codes that can allow the US government to track you down.
Books
- Book Review: Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide
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"Time Magazine's" Top 100 English Novels
As it is, the whole thing is pretty much meaningless.
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Time Magazine Picks the 100 Best Novels of "All Time"
Time magazine editors pick their favorites. Where's Harry Potter? Not on the list, thankfully.
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Book Review: Halo 2 Hacks
Great book if you have an idea as to what you're doing.
- Book Review: Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
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Time's Greatest Books, 1923-Present
Well-known classics... and a few you might not expect.
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Book Review: Podcasting Hacks
Podcasting noob, or long-time veteran -- this book has something for you!!
- Next Week in the Bookstore: Gabriel Garcia Marquez and a Lost Capote Novel
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Book Review: The Martini Diet by Jennifer Sander
Eat rich, creamy delicious food, drink martinis, and still lose weight? This book shows you how to do that.
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Book Review: The Life of Pi
It is as a parable about the need for embellishment and imagination that this book is most successful and valuable.
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Book Review: The Best thing that Could Happen to a Croissant
Imagine the laziest person you know, add 300 pounds to him, and then make him 100 times more apathetic...
Music
- Live: Franz Ferdinand–Tower Theater in Philly 10/14/05
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Podcast - The Mondo Irlando Radio Thing Episode 13!
Unlucky 13!! Plenty Swearing And Smirking, And Music Fit To Floor Us All!
- CD Review: Tori Amos - Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL 4.15.05
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Single Review: Rihanna's "Pon De Replay"
She dictates the playlist at the hip hop club she frequents.
- Def Leppard - Live at the Nissan Pavilion
- CD Review: Broadcast - Tender Buttons
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CD review: Six Shooter, More Quality from Thunder
Regular readers will know that I have a major soft spot for this chronically underrated and underappreciated band.
- CD Review: Dr. Dog Easybeat
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CD Review: Tera Melos - Tera Melos
Instrumental prog death punk. This my friends, is the birth of a new genre.
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Funky Halloween: Hellish party treats for your tricks
If you want your party guests to really shake dem Halloween bones, here's what to dust off now to get their dancing knees a-clacking.
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Review: A Race of Angels - Broadcast No. 1
The final verdict: BUY THIS CD. BUY IT NOW!
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Single Review: Liz Phair "Everything To Me"
Liz Phair grapples with her boyfriend's insensivity in the wavering "Everything To Me."
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CD review: Opeth deliver again...
Opeth are clearly setting the barrier for all those to follow.
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CD review: New Journey
Journey has always been the masters of the ballad, but many have criticised their recent output for being too ballad heavy.
- CD Review: Nocturne - Guide to Extinction
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The Sunset Tree
The Mountain Goats sound like mountain goats - go figure.
Culture
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Let's Re-Name the Civil War
And NOT "The War of Northern Aggression."
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Manic-Depressive Sandwiches
Manic-depressive sandwiches--In the manic phase you get everything, in the depressive phase you get just bread.
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Are you there God? It's me, a Mom
The science and spirituality of raising children.
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OBH #011: "Lottery Winner"
A crowded studio family discusses the lottery, providing your monthly quota of large numbers all in thirty minutes! Plus, licorice, but not for Mildred, who is preggers.
- Children? No Thank you! Astrology-based Advice
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Day By Day for October 19, 2005
Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for October 19, 2005
Video
- Movie Review: Haunted Castle 3D
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Courting Craig Ferguson: The Late Late Show Diaries 10-18-05
Take your clothes off and cover yourself in margarine. For people who have seen me with my clothes off, I apologize.
- DVD Review: The Interpreter
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DVD Review: The Searchers
Could it be that The Searchers is great and I just don't see it?
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DVD Review: Scoop Perlman's Guide to Art
This technically amateur documentary makes up for it all with absolutely fascinating subject matter. Namely, the creatively obsessed.
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TV Review: Real World: Austin 10-18-05
This episode of the Real World gets another yawn.
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The Apprentice: Martha Stewart TV Review
She's tough, shrewd, organized, and talented. And she aims to create another in her image.
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Courting Craig Ferguson: The Late Late Show Diaries 10-17-05
I'm a middle-aged man who works at 12:30 at night. I am creepy by definition.
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TV Review: Gilmore Girls
"Welcome to the Dollhouse"
Politics
- Slot Machines at Military Bases: Paychecks Wanted
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Why Didn't the Bush Administration just Plant the WMDs in Iraq?
Perhaps their nonsense was good enough to fool even them.
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White House Releases Harriet Miers SP1
The forecasts for a continued boom/bubble in the age of Bush 2.0 came to a halt recently...
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Feminist World Politics: Bash Bush, Push Hillary
Increasingly, my blog is going to turn its politics into another direction: pushing Hillary for president.
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Will Fitzgerald Indict A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy?
As many as 22 Bush Administration officials are being investigated in Plame-gate.
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Media Continues 'Plame-gate' Drone
The media continues to drone on regarding the Plame investigation. I wonder if ordinary people care.
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If I Only Had The Money-I'd Start My OWN Political Party
Seems like there's 2 seperate Republican parties....like Hannity, Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh...what ARE the Dems about...it's weird
- Tibor Rubin and the Medal of Honor
Gaming
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PC Game Review: Black & White 2
A heavenly gaming experience or hellish torture?
Sports
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Muhammad Ali: The Good Fight
He has spent the time since confounding his critics both inside and out of the ring.
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If Sports Figures Were In Politics
Who is the sports version of President Bush? Bill Clinton? Michael Moore? Rush Limbaugh? I have an idea.
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