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La la Land At Its Finest

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I saw this in Brentwood, CA by a Peet’s Coffee Shop (which is actually where Mezzaluna, where Nicole Brown Simpson dined before OJ, I mean someone, killed her, used to reside) this past weekend: If you’ve got over $100K for a Lamborghini, one would think you also have enough money to get another car on […]

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Stronger in Many Ways

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Mr. “I’ve got a permanent beef with MTV” Kayne West is super hot and winning his album selling contest against 50 Cent because he took the beat from Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger and created a monster hit called “Stronger.” This song is my current favorite hip-hop tune by very wide margin. If you […]

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Trent Says "Steal It"

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Trent Reznor is still pretty pissed off at his record label for price gouging on his latest CD, Year Zero. At a recent concert, he said: “Has anyone seen the price come down? Okay, well, you know what that means – STEAL IT. Steal away. Steal and steal and steal some more and give it […]

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Thou Shalt Prove A Point?

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Straight from the “you can’t make this stuff up” department is this bit of news about how Nebraskan State Senator Ernie Chambers is suing God. While Ernie says he is trying to point out how frivolous lawsuits can be, I pray that he does not believe in a vengeful God after reading the suit’s language.  […]

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Moon 2.0

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The next race to the moon has begun! The X PRIZE Foundation and Google Inc. today announced the Google Lunar X PRIZE, a robotic race to the Moon. The press release boldly states: “Moon 2.0, the second era of lunar exploration, will not be a quest for “flags and footprints.” This time we will go […]

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One Last Swan Song

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Break out the air raid sirens and stop the presses or whatever you say in this digital age: Led Zeppelin will perform together for the first time in 19 years on Nov. 26, at London’s The O2 venue, on the banks of the River Thames to raise money for Ahmet Ertegun’s Education Fund. Run on […]

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Life from a Mainframe

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There was a joke about how soon a computer will boot up a web browser, not a desktop, and it was noted that my yearly internet access costs more then what I spent on my whole computer. A co-worker then said, “And to get even more tangential, this makes me think of a computing model […]

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How To Redo 1978

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I just received an email which could be considered one of the greatest ways that Microsoft products have ever been utilized in daily life. The simple and complete email, minus signature, is as follows: ‘Nuff said. Via Herzy

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6 Years Later

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In everlasting remembrance of those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001: Today is the sixth anniversary of when two planes flew into the Twin Towers, bringing with them destruction and death on a quiet and sunny almost Fall morning in the Big Apple. This is the first time that the anniversary has happened […]