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They really went for something different this time.

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Every week or so, I stop by my local comic book store and pickup an assortment of what has been fairly recently released. I don't pretend to be an expert, often my choices are very subjective and I'm rarely enthusiastic. Why do I keep doing it? Because occasionally I strike gold. Let's get on with this week's selection. Li'l Depressed Boy #1: This first issue promptly sold out and was sent back

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I decided to celebrate Houdini's 137th birthday with an epic magic trick: Free music! Fine, It's not really magic or epic since Spin magazine has been doing it every month but still, it's free music so what are you waiting for? Besides featuring Starfucker which explain the Lichtenstein-esque image above, it also has French Band Yelle's addictive song "Safari Disco Club". A music video well

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Pictured above is the Prospect Heights bar, The Way Station featuring a TARDIS as their bathroom. How cool is that? Kate Beaton of "Hark! a Vagrant" fame posted a hilarious Doctor Who comic even though to her own admission she has never seen the show. Doctor Who experience opened in London last Sunday and will run until May 29. Sadly, I don't see any possibilities of making it. Nicholas

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SiriusXM offers their radio stations online on a browser based interface for an additional $2.99/month. Great! What is not so great is the timeout for inactivity after 90 minutes or so. In other words if you are not interacting with the player's window for a period of an hour and a half, the music stops playing. There's a slew of third party applications out there but all of them stopped

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Demo for LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars just landed on XBox Live and since we are talking about LEGO Star Wars, take a look at this nifty ad campaign created by students of the Cuca Escola de Criativos. Brought to you by Holy Cool, 15 cool stuff every Star Wars fan must have. Sadly, the cufflinks were a unique set and were already sold by the time I got to the Etsy page. [Update: I was

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A first recording of this Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra was released 10 years ago on the Treesong album. This welcome new recording is the second of three exclusives with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra directed by Leonard Slatkin. The first release back in October was a Horn Concerto requiring some comparison shopping. Currently the best option is on iTunes at $4.99 with an

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Looking at the list of movie releases this summer, I have the same sinking feeling I had back in May of last year when I saw the fall TV season lineup, that little voice whispering in my ear there's nothing there for me. It's tempting to blame it on aging but before I dropped cable, I faithfully watched 8 seasons of 24, 6 seasons of LOST, 4 seasons of Battlestar Galactica and I still watch Mad

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This nice feller here is Darwin Deez, one of 19 artists featured in this month's playlist from Spin.com. It's free, it's legal.  Thank you spin! Expires March 31, 2011

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According to a Gallup poll released yesterday, Americans appear to be under the impression Ronald Reagan is the greatest U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln coming second 5 points behind. I had difficulties believing the results at first but looking at historical scholar rankings on Wikipedia, Ronald Reagan seem to have been consistently climbing in the ratings since the beginning of the 21st

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I love the idea of media storage being beautiful yet highly disposable. Art Lebedev Studio via Today and Tomorrow.

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Moebius, Giraud Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (born May 8, 1938[1]) is a French comics artist. Giraud has earned worldwide fame, not only under his own name but also under the pseudonym Moebius. He is the creator of Blueberry. He said about Hergé:"Drawing comic strips is repetitive, mechanical work that naturally leads to the development of artistic tics. Few authors can escape this process

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10 years ago today, All your base are belong to us was posted at Newsground starting what would become one of the first classic Internet meme.

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For a night at the movies with the New York Philharmonic. Woohoo! Tickets are on sale now and cost between $75.00 and $295.00.

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The press conference was held yesterday in Wellington. This is the full video. Via.

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John Williams is featured in Andrew Zuckerman's book and documentary Music. So are a few other artists I care about like Danny Elfman, Philip Glass or Joe Jackson. The book is $7.29 on amazon (a $50 value) and includes a download code for the documentary. A little more Williams in the "Behind the Scenes" video. In other news, John Williams' Horn Concerto is now $4.99 on iTunes or about half

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This was an instant buy. :)

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I dropped my HTC Incredible and shattered the screen. I was informed by Verizon that I had the extended warranty but not the insurance. Their suggestion? Buy a new one at full retail price or $599.99... Right... I'll be honest, I am technically inclined and it still made me nervous to take my phone apart even with those handy instructions: [...] It took me a couple of hours but I was able

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The album has been available to listen for free on NPR since December 26 but will not be released until January 11 on amazon and iTunes. I'm not what you would call a bluegrass or even a country music fan but Abigail Washburn's Janis Joplin voice and the Chinese influences in her music makes it a totally enjoyable listening experience. I highly recommend it.

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From Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le deuxième souffle"

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LOST finale Liveblogging event

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The Academy Awards live blog

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I'll fire up the event at 7:30 PM and movie watching will start at 8:00 PM. Again let me know if you intend to participate, I'll add you as a panelist.Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Live Blog

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Online viewing party starts at 8 PM EST. Be there or be square! Shoot me an email or contact me on Facebook if you'd like to participate, I'll ad you as a panelist to the event that way I don't have to approve every single one of your posts. :)<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=add529481c" &

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Return of the Jedi Live Blog

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The Empire Strikes Back Live blog

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Not only did I survive the first week of the marathon multiplier, I crushed it. As of this morning I have ran 53.5 km or 33 and a quarter miles for the metrically challenged out there, leaving me a little over 73 km (45.3 miles) to run between now and February 6. I think it's totally doable. In fact I started to run shorter distances as of this morning aiming for a faster average pace. I really

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Polaroid announced about a year ago that it was abandoning the technology of instant films,and shutting down its plants around the world. Although it made sense from a business standpoint, it was not only marking the end of an era but I also felt that digital photography was in no way a replacement for the instant film.Enters the Polaroid PoGo. It's a 5 megapixel digital camera with a thermal

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The first part of the video is focusing on the Nike + SportBand, a product that has been recalled by Nike back in November 2008 so don't pay to much attention. What I'll focusing on in this post is the Nike + iPod Sport Kit.So ahem yes, farewell Nike + SportBand we hardly knew you. Now going back to the Nike + iPod Sport Kit if you have any model of iPod Nano or an iPod Touch second generation

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With Nike + you can set yourself goals but you can also sign up for challenges with other Nike + runners. I've joined 24 challenges so far that I consider doable, I might have stepped over the line however with number 25.Enters "The Marathon Multiplier (1/3)". Here is what it's all about:"This is only for the very toughest Nike+ runners. How many Marathons can you run in a month? A series of

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According to a study from the Stanford School of Medicine who tracked 500 runners for 21 years, elderly runners "were younger, leaner, and less likely to smoke" than nonrunners. 19 years into the study 15% of the runners had died compared to a whopping 34% for nonrunners.If that doesn't convince you to start running, I don't know what will.Source: Archive of Internal Medicine.

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Food for thoughts. Tomorrow morning, Barack Obama will be on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos", John McCain will be on "Face the Nation", Joe Biden will be on "Meet the Press". Sarah Palin? The McCain campaign is so convinced they are winning this election, they already sent her to Dick Cheney's bunker.

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I have a feeling whoever is usually writing the talking points took the weekend off.

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CNN entertainment is proud to report the GOP will have its own share of stars during its convention including Rage Against the Machine. I hope someone gave them the heads up because here is the beginning of their performance for the DNC in 2000.The same nice guys who brought you "Testify", making clear at the time, they didn't see any difference between Bush and Gore.

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Because they are generally unhelpful and/or stupid.Yes I know the connection to my computer was lost because I turned it off forgetting that the movie I was watching was streaming from the said computer.Make sure your computer is turned on: I just told you I turned it off. It was a mistake, an accident.Connected to your network: There's nothing wrong with the network. I turned the computer

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I was browsing CNNMoney today looking for a recap of this week's disastrous events on Wall Street when I stumbled on this poll:I can't say I was surprised by the question, I often ask it myself and I wasn't exactly shocked that 6 out of 10 people have enough savings for 6 months or less. What I really find appalling is that these results are coming from people who read CNNMoney. I think at the

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First concert of the New York Philharmonic in Central Park. On the program:Shostakovich: Festive OvertureMendelssohn: Symphony No.4, ItalianTchaikovsky: 1812 OvertureSousa: Washington Post March, Liberty Bell & The Stars and Stripes Forever.Encore: Purple Haze.

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Today as I'm trying to pull an article off Usenet, I get the following message:I go to the FAQs and man was that helpful:I cannot access Road Runner Newsgroups or download articles?As of June 23, 2008, Road Runner will no longer offer Newsgroups, however users can subscribe on their own to third party News providers.Why is Road Runner discontinuing their own Newsgroups service?Due to low

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I'm going to give it my best shot but I don't think I can be that fast, which might explain why I get my ass served by 12 years old when I play FPS online.

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Joe Jackson performing live, May 14, 2008 on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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I am currently reading The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford and on page 144 of the paperback edition the following passage grabbed my attention: Jesse ripped off the paper and the box flap and with childish astonishment withdrew a black, ironworked model of a salacious naked woman, her arms crossed beneath her head, her legs lewdly cloven and lifted. "It's a bawdy bootjack,

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So I've been playing Portal... Like a lot and all I want on my desk next to my monitor is a weighted companion cube. Is that too much to ask? Well apparently it is, because the only licensed product from valve is a crappy plush or there's also a pretty neat papercraft version but that's not what I want. I want the real deal.Yes, I've searched Ebay. No dice (dice, cube.. get it?).So if you're a

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That's right, I scored a Scout Trooper from Kotobukiya (list price $99.99) and a Stormtrooper Animated from Gentle Giant (list price $69.99) for $100 at the New York Comic Con. Life is good.PS: I was agonizing for about an hour over a Kotobukiya Luke vs Vader Mc Quarrie for $110 but it's a huge piece and I don't think I had room anywhere to put it on display.

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As I am compulsively refreshing the CNN homepage like I do every day, I suddenly notice there's a new icon next to some headlines in the "Latest News" section (it's the one to the right of the headline).It looks like the letter T but upon closer inspection more like a T Shirt. Why would a T Shirt icon sit next to selective headlines at cnn.com? For CNN headline shirts of course!At that point I

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I Love Gamefly. I'm a level 3 member, which means I've been with them for over a year and get 10% off purchases and 5 Gamefly dollars every 3 months.It's on one hand a great video game rental service but I also love having the option of keeping the games I am renting at prices nothing short of amazing. Take a game like "Eternal Sonata" for the 360 for example: $54.99 used at Gamestop, $29.69 at

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I was out Christmas shopping yesterday and because I live in New York but am originally from France, I was looking for gift ideas for friends and family from the other side of the pond in tourists stores on Times Square when I stumbled on this:My first question was what is it doing in this store? Do they think that some random tourist is going to walk in and say "Hey, nothing says New York City

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Don't get me wrong, I like nerdy news just like the next nerd but that's not what I go to CNN.com for. So imagine my surprise when this made the headline for a good couple of hours today:Commodore 64? To quote Jimmy Kimmel "How is this news?" Wasn't there anything else going on? Any update on the bombing in Paris yesterday? The CIA destroying tapes of interrogations back in '05?That's when I

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But I'll make an exception with "the blog readability test". I'm awesome!

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Some video game publishers still don't understand the concept of achievements on the 360 as brilliantly demonstrated by THQ with "Avatar The Last Airbender, The Burning Earth". The game might have been panned by most reviewers, it's a hit in rentals and to be totally honest it's in my Gamefly queue.

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The next 48 hours at work are going to suck ass and a bunch of people will think I'm an asshole, a douche bag, the devil's spawn, you name it.Commuting home, I felt the doom and gloom setting down as I was selecting all the sad songs on my iPod. I decided to turn it off and finished chapter 7 of Alamut. I was briefly transported to 11th century Persia and it helped me forget my impending problems

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How many times do I have to finish Bioshock? I already completed the game 4 times to get 49 achievements out of 50. Now 2K released a patch on XBox live fixing the widescreen issues. I didn't think it was much of a problem but looking at the screen grabs i's worth playing a couple of levels.The patch comes also with a bunch of new features:● Sonic Boom: Hurls creatures and objects back with a

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I've been trying to remember the name of this show since yesterday and now that I finally did over lunch today, I can't get the music out of my head.

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I use Excel on a daily basis and have been rather pleased with the release of Office 2007. That was until I discovered thanks to Excel 2007 new math that 850 x 77.1 = 100,000So first I gave up on Vista now I'm going to have to go back to Office 2003?

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Look at what FedEx brought me this morning!

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I feel like Friday's open rehearsal was 6 months ago and I'm having a tough time focusing at work But if lovely wonderful thoughts lift you up in the air then I can fly!Why do all good things must come to an end? Thank you John Williams.

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Notes on the program can be found HERE. Last night was the first of a series of three concerts by John Williams with the New York Philharmonic returning to Avery Fisher Hall after last year’s great success. Fun was the keyword and it was fairly obvious early on that everybody was just having a good time. By everybody I mean John Williams, the musicians of the New York Philharmonic, special

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[8:17 am] On the number 7 bus on my way to Avery Fisher Hall.[8:22 am] Grabbing a cup of coffee.[8:27 am] Just got there. They added a sticker to the poster reading 'Sold Out'.[8:50 am] A small line is forming inside.[9:05 am] Talking Star Wars. They just announced we're getting in, in 5 mn. I'm psyched.[9:09 am] They checked the bags. My camera's in. :)[9:15 am] We're talking 6th gen iPods.

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Hitman: Blood Money will forever be the first 360 game on which I got all the achievements. 1000 gamers points. And now on to Lego Star Wars II.

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I almost fell off my chair this morning. Am I the only one who didn't notice there was a video at the bottom of the concert page?

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Episode 4 in Widescreen. They will now come at the pace of one each month for the next 10 months... Awesome!

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I can barely contain my excitement.

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And so it is decided. I have ordered my iPod touch from the Apple online store. Shipping is for September 28 with an estimated delivery date between October 2 and 4. It cannot come soon enough. I'll go check the video demo now.

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[12:50 PM] Today is the day I might get the iPod I alway dreamed of. The Apple store is down which tells me it will be available today. 10 minutes to wait before the event starts.[12:53 PM] Gizmodo is reporting the event is packed... No kidding... 7 minutes to go. I'm dying...[12:58 pm] iMac on stage so we can expect some news on the iTunes front. I can't take it anymore!!!![1:00 PM] Here we go![

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Coming September 7 and we have a trailer. I can't wait!

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This morning in my inbox:Welcome to the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Multiplayer BETA!Congratulations on being selected to participate in the public multiplayer BETA for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.Your Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Multiplayer BETA Token is:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXTo download the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Multiplayer BETA please follow the following steps:Turn on

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Don't you think it's time for a Windows XP Service Pack 3? I was doing a clean install of XP Service Pack 2 today and I loaded the machine with Office 2007. This is what it took to bring it up to date:Installation of the active X control for Microsoft Update. Back to the home page for software upgrades, namely Windows installer 3.1 and Windows Genuine Advantage then restart. Back to the home page

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I guess there was no need to panic yesterday afternoon after all. I calmly went back to the registration page this morning and after completing the process got the following message:"Your name will now be entered into a random drawing for Tokens into the Xbox 360 Multiplayer Beta. At 7pm PDT tomorrow, Tuesday August 28th, we will be drawing names for entry into the Beta. Within 72 hours of this

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I tried to sign-up today for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Public Beta, aka COD4 without much success. Before downloading the game from XBox Live you had to get a token code from the site starting at 3:00 PM EST today. I knew there was troubles ahead when the site started to slow down dramatically at 2:30. Since 2:55 that's all I've been getting:In other words: It's down. Which left me wondering

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I've searched the land a long time for the Holy Grail of universal remotes and my quest is now over. The Harmony Advanced Universal Remote for Xbox 360 is the answer. Not only does it control everything I have at home that can be controlled with a remote (including the A/C) but you can also program macros called activities like "watch TV" or "watch DVD" or "listen to Radio".What makes this

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Is the amount of sleep I had last night. I was playing Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion on the 360 and I've lost track of time. I am now at work feeling guilty and lousy. The end of the day cannot come soon enough.Still... I nailed the rank of Protector in the Fighter's Guild. :)I suck.

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My God, this sure brings back some. I have watched the Temple of Doom teaser on my British VHS tape of Raiders so many times that I know every line, every shot and best of all I still have the tape :)(Found on Youtube via Ain't It Cool)

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I can't remember the last time we got an update for the Wii and now it's two in one week. This one seems to be addressing issues with the web browser I'm not using. There was also a warning message if you had a modded console not to accept the update, that's a little nicer than Microsoft.Updates and downloads are great but occasionally I miss the time when I was just turning my console on and

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I've been using Mozilla for years and I don't mean Firefox or Thunderbird, I mean Mozilla. I've switched from time to time to Internet Explorer when a new version was released but I always got back to Mozilla at the end.I had noticed for a while now that there was no updates to version 1.7.13 and since it was working for me I didn't see any reason to look further but since I rolled back from

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This morning when I woke up my Wii was glowing blue (Your mind IS in the gutter) and I was surprised to see there was an upate available. What does it do? According to Nintendo:Wii MenuThe weather forecast will now be displayed on the Forecast Channel icon in the Wii Menu.Headline news will now be displayed on the News Channel icon in the Wii Menu.The current time will now be displayed in the Wii

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Curse you HP for making my life miserable. It all started with a Designjet 110plus printer Friday of last week, not that there was anything wrong with it, but you would think that for $1,000 you would get a printer cable with it, well think again. I had to go to Circuit City around the corner to get one.I wouldn't even remember that incident if it wasn't for all the misery related to HP products

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"STARDUST" Explorer:Found all of the target marks in Mission 11.And that's it for "Lost Planet". I'm shipping back the game tomorrow morning. The online part just wasn't entertaining enough or at least very uneven, I liked the game overall though. I expect gamefly to ship Resident Evil 4 for the Wii and either Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Forza Motorsport 2 or even possibly Dirt for the 360. I'm

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"BLIZZARD" Explorer:Found all of the target marks in Mission 10.

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My head is about to explode. I've been looking forward to "The Bourne Ultimatum"'s soundtrack since at least April. As fate would have it, as I'm picking up my copy at the Virgin on Times Square I notice a magnificent Collector's Edition for the soundtrack of 300.I'm thinking what the hell, it's only 4 bonus tracks so I can give it a quick spin and still dedicate plenty of time to the latest

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"RAINBOW" Explorer:Found all of the target marks in Mission 9.Whatever happens I'm returning "Lost Planet" this week.

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"VOLCANO" ExplorerFound all of the target marks in Mission 8.

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Unfortunately this weekend is coming to an end. :(

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And a live blog. It's all geek to me! [7:00 AM] Ridding the train on my way to the rendezvous point, I realize I can't insert symbols besides what's on my cellphone's keyboard. Crap![7:10 AM] Got to 42nd Street and debating with my fellow strap hangers if this is a local or express 7 train. I think it's a local and it better be.[7:15 AM] It's a local (I told you guys). The dude sitting next to

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"MIRAGE" Explorer: 10 points.Found all of the target marks in Mission 3."AURORA" Explorer: 15 points.Found all of the target marks in Mission 5."THUNDER" Explorer: 15 points.Found all of the target marks in Mission 6."TORNADO" Explorer: 15 points.Found all of the target marks in Mission 7.All on the same day. I guess I'll keep playing for a while just for the Gamer's points.

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Successfully completed Mission 11.Not exactly sure what I'm doing at this point. I mean technically I have finished Lost Planet and I squeezed over 300 points from it but I have the feeling I could get another 50 fairly easily before sending it back to Gamefly. I'll sleep over it.

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My first laugh of the day. And Downfall is a masterpiece.

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I love my new camera. :)

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Ah yes mashups, it's all the rage right now. I received my invitation to Microsoft's Popfly this morning and played with it for about 10 minutes. I don't quite get it yet... But I'm sure I will... Eventually.

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Successfully completed Mission 10.20 points...

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I finally had the time this morning to roll back to XP Media Center Edition on my main machine. The saddest part of the story was my sigh of relief deleting the Vista partition.I really tried to make it work but I realize now I should have switched back to XP weeks if not months ago.I wouldn't put Microsoft latest OS at the same level as Windows Me but it's a close second, there's also ample

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I stopped by Lincoln Center with my new toy :)

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Sony Cybershot DSC-H7. I was looking for a new camera and this is the review that convinced me.

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I went to the Box Office to see if I could get a ticket for the open rehearsal on September 14 but they won't go on sale until August 26 when I noticed this right outside:

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Finally! And if anyone is wondering, they are in a safe as of this morning not to see the light of day until September 14 :)

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The event held at the Barnes and Noble Union Square was just massive! They had setup areas on all four floors and activities from 5 PM all the way to the launch of the book at midnight.The first floor was for Wristband check-in. If you had reserved a copy of the book you were getting a gold wristband, if you hadn't a red. That were the Eeylops Owl Emporium was as well.On the second floor was

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I just thought I'd drop by Barnes and Noble at Union Square to check the launch of the last Harry Potter book and the event is just massive. They took over all four floors of the store and have schedule a whole bunch of activities since 5 PM to keep everyone busy until midnight. More later.

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First post from my cell. :)

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I was able to get my hands on an iPhone for a full day and went through the entire process, from taking it out of the box to activating it, to configuring it, to actually using it.Unpacking the iPhone is pretty much like unpacking a video iPod. It comes in that sleek black and silver box with a color photo of the device on top. In the box is the phone of course, a set of headphones looking

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Collected all of Leifang's idolic swimsuits.The most pain I had to score 20 points so far. And now on to Tina's Dynamite Collection!

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...until the NY Philharmonic plays in Central Park.

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