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PC Finally Fights Back?
According to the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is FINALLY responding to the “Mac vs PC” ads that Apple has been running for the past few years. What took them so long?? Apple has been running its successful Get A Mac campaign since 2006. Microsoft, like the Titanic heading for an iceberg, took 2 years to…
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Face Your Manga
My brother sent me a link this morning to a fun site called Face Your Manga. With it, you can create your own avatar face, or that of your alter ego. It’s free to do as often as you want, and you can save a low resolution JPEG of your avatar to use Skype, mySpace, Facebook, blogs,…
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Papercraft Friday #2: Panda
While the Olympic games in China march on, I thought something associated with China might be appropriate. How about the panda! Who doesn’t love a panda! (2024 Note: The above links do not appear to longer work any longer. I am therefore assuming that the files are in the public domain and am hosting them…
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OS X
This is the best sticker I’ve seen in a long time! For some reason, my family seems to love putting the OBX style stickers on their cars. I saw it on a car in front of me as I was pulling up to a light, but he turned right before I could snap a picture. Available here…
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Grats to Brett Hull
Brett Hull was one of four players announced yesterday for the class of 2008 U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will be held in Denver on October 10th. St. Louisans will always consider Brett Hull a Blues player. He rose ot prominence in the NHL with the Blue Note and played 10-1/2 years in St.…
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The Juiced Olympics
I’ve been following the Olympic events daily since the opening ceremony, watching the swimming and volleyball and gymnastics events, and enjoying it more than I expected. But reported instances of cheating have marred the experience. Which athletes were cheating? Well, non that I know of. But the China and the Olympic Committee have been caught…
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Papercraft Friday #1: Olympic Mascots
Kicking off a new weekly post called Papercraft Friday. If you’ve followed my blog for awhile, you know that I’m into papercraft. Not origami, more like paper models you cut out, fold and glue together. I would like to get myself back into the swing of doing these regularly again, so I figured I’d start…
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This Week in Game Media Stupidity
I should really make this a weekly column. Material is so easy to come by.
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Game Impressions #4: Resistance: Fall of Man
Introduction My game impressions segment returns after much neglect, with an older title I recently picked up and finished. Resistance: Fall of Man was released for the PS3 on November 14, 2006 as a launch title for the PS3. I didn’t get a PS3 until a year later, and when I did, I downloaded the…
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Movie Impressions #2: The X-Files: I Want To Believe
Well, I don’t get to movies very often, but sometimes I make a special point to go to particular movies. The new X-Files movie is one of those times. I saw it with my brother last Saturday night. Being a big fan of the series (well, at least until the last 2 seasons), I had…
