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Culture
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2005 Goodbyes: Dead People. Hello Memories.
A death can impact as greatly as a life and you can spend your own living days trying to make a connection. That's what usually happens with celebrities.
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A Million Dollars Worth Of Pixels
Pssst - If you have a dollar, I have a pixel for you
- Charles Cummings: The Man Who Loved Newark
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Buying a Home Less Expensive Now Than In the '80s, Will Become More Expensive Twice This Year
Housing prices are lower now than they were in the 1980s, but costs continue to creep up.
- Hello 2006; The Passing of Time
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Hair of the Dog? New Year's Day Hangover Remedies
It is New Year's Day, and many people are just waking up (but some will probably sleep until it gets dark outside) with hangovers.
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Responsibility: Learning How To Communicate
We have been hiding behind what we are supposed to do for each other for long enough now. Isn't it time that we grew up and learned how to have a conversation?
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Day By Day for January 01, 2006
Chris Muir's excellent Day By Day cartoon, for January 01, 2006
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New Year's Resolutions I Know I Can Keep
Some resolutions I really, really think I can keep this year. Frankly, I'm quite excited. It'll be a good year.
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Ringing in the New Year: A Modern History
New Year's Eve and I have had some interesting showdowns over the past 11 years.
Music
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Single Review: Kelly Clarkson "Walk Away"
Kelly Clarkson tells off her insensitive boyfriend in the vehement "Walk Away."
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Live Review: The Black Crowes at Madison Square Garden
The Robinson Brothers and the rest of the band have lost nothing during their breakup as a band.
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Best of 2005 Mixtape
These are my favorite indie rock, electronica and hip-hop tracks released in 2005 in one solid block of sounds.
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CD Review: Holopaw - Quit +/- or Fight
Holopaw have delivered on of the most beautiful and understated albums of the year with Quit +/- or Fight.
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My Top 11 Best Closing Song Lines In Rock
"And in the closing stages/ The adoration you appropriate/ Is equivalent in regard to the adoration you generate"...hmmm--Nah!
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Bastard Pop - Top Five in '05
An overview of the best mash-up releases of the year.
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Last Minute Musical Discoveries of 2005
I'm grateful that I was alive during 2005. Breaths of fresh air were plentiful, especially in music.
Books
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Book Review:Sakkara by Noel Barber
Sakkara is the story of 2 families, one high-class Egyptian, and the other high-class British.
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Book Review: The Great Pacific War
A History of the American-Japanese Campaign of 1931-33, by Hector Bywater
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Book Review: Busted! Drug War Survival Skills-From the Buy to the Bust to Begging for Mercy by M. Chris Fabricant, Defense Attorney
"No event more illustrates the failure of the 'Just Say No' campaign than a rave."-Peter Jennings
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Book Review: The Coffee Trader by David Liss
Not the same old grind: Beans, business, and Byzantine plots--for those who take a little 17th-century mystery and economic history with their coffee.
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Book Review : New Rules: Polite Musings From A Timid Observer By Bill Maher
Bill Maher is like Loretta Castorini slapping Ronny Cammareri across the face, yelling “Snap out of it”
Gaming
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GBA Review: Cartoon Network Block Party
Even after an apocalypse where this is the only video game left, you still won't want a copy.
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N-Gage Review: Colin McRae Rally 2005
The realism is stunning for a system this weak.
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N-Gage Review: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
Surprising and playable, this is one of the console's best.
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N-Gage Review: WWE Aftershock
Square wrestlers fight in a square ring. Irony?
Video
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Dick Clark's Sad New Year's Rockin' Eve 06
Dick Clark had a stroke to account for his performance, but what was Mariah Carey's excuse? Basically, Mariah Carey was doing karaoke- and not especially good karaoke at that.
- Reality Show Hits and Misses, 2005
- DVD Review: Undiscovered
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TV Review: Iconoclasts
If you constantly have to tell me how fabulous something is, it probably isn't that good to begin with.
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Triniman's Films of 2005 Retrospective
50-something films rated from 2005, with links to the full reviews. Let the best-of-2005 lists roll!
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DVD Review: A*P*E
The single worst giant ape movie ever created.
Sci/Tech
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Resolution: Get Prepared For The Worst
There are courses, resources and actions that can save lives when an emergency strikes. Don't be without them.
Politics
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The Onion's Top Ten Stories Of The Year (And Other Tall Tales)
The Best Of The Onion, and Blogcritics' Satire selections
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The March Toward the Anglosphere
As the 19th century came to a close, Great Britain stood as the premier country in the world.
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