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Entries from June 2008

XKCD tackles tailgating

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

One of my favorite webcomics xkcd had a good one today about the hazards of tailgating a geek!
xkcd - Road Rage

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Tags: comic

Dear Hollywood, Stop Making Spoof Movies

June 19th, 2008 · No Comments

Back in 2000 when Keenen Wayans decided to make Scary Movie, I wonder if he knew the hell he would unleash upon moviegoers worldwide. While Scary Movie wasn’t horrible and some would even argue good, it had a huge breadth of material to pull from, in fact over 100 years worth of horror films. Unfortunately [...]

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Tags: Movies · Rant · Tech

Bungie announces the next Halo Novel by Tobias Buckell!

June 16th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m stoked to share this, though obviously not as stoked as my friend Toby, who was just announced by way of the Bungie.net blog to be writing the next halo novel. The novel is due out this fall and is called Halo; The Cole Protocol. Details on the novel are sparse right now, but you [...]

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Tags: Games · books

Interview with the Author of “Now The Hell Will Start”

June 14th, 2008 · No Comments

I heard about “Now The Hell Will Start” by Brandan Koerner a few weeks ago and decided I had to read it. The only problem is that my current “to read” list is way to long especially with books I have recently purchased so I am waiting for a copy of his book to come [...]

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Tags: books

Firefox Mobile aka Fennec coming in September

June 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Firefox Mobile Concept Video from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
The Crave blog is reporting that Fennec the mobile version of Firefox is set to be debuted in September with a beta release in late 2008! I am extremely excited by this news since the desktop version of Firefox continues to be the best browser for my [...]

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Tags: Phone PDA · Tech

Review: AntiPoleez gets rid of beer breath!

June 12th, 2008 · 2 Comments

A week or so a package arrived from AntiPoleez, makers of a product which removes the odor of alcohol, tobacco and garlic from your breath. In my experience mints, freshened my breath but they still left a distinct odor of alcohol. These lozenges did a great job of removing offending odors from my breath. For [...]

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Tags: Reviews · Tech

Daily Show and Colbert on Hulu

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Download Squad reports that both the Daily Show and the Colbert Report have joined the nifty video site Hulu. Despite the fact that you can already catch these online, the Hulu interface is much more user friendly than any of the current network specific sites.
Now if only there were an easy way to watch these [...]

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Tags: TV

Zero Punctuation takes on Oblivion

June 8th, 2008 · No Comments

My favorite video game skewer-er take on Oblivion and 2/3 the way through will make you spit whatever beverage you happen to be drinking out through your nose! You have been warned, enjoy the video below. As always with Yahtzee, not for the faint of heart or those listening in a cubicle.

Funny, especially when you [...]

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Tags: Games · Humor

Bluffton EBA Young Alumni Event

June 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Last nite Amber and myself joined some of our fellow Bluffton Alums for a get together at the Gordon Biersch Brewery in Columbus and had a great time. We carpooled down from Findlay with a few other alumni and met up with Pete Suter, the host of the evening to add to multitude of door [...]

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Verizon releasing Windows Mobile 6.1 for Samsung i760

June 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment

If you can believe a leaked set of PowerPoint slides from Verizon, they are set to update the operating system on the Samsung SCH-i760 to WM 6.1. I currently own the phone and I am happy with the overall package but I am getting close to the need for a hard reset as well as [...]

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Tags: Phone PDA · Verizon