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Garfield the cat doesn’t actually speak, so what would Garfield the comic look like if he just wasn’t there? Apparently it would look like Jon is a mental patient.

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A very cool new scooter design from the MIT Media Lab Smart Cities Group.

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The ROFLCon preliminary guest list is up. They’re trying to get every famous internet meme or celebrity to go to Harvard in April for a conference. Must attend!

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In case you actually decided to try Dwarf Fortress: The best how-to guide ever on how to play.

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Oh boy, here we go. So I don’t normally do movie reviews, largely because I’m rarely moved by a movie enough to want to write one, but Sicko and 28 Weeks Later have proved to be the exceptions - if for totally opposite reasons. I went to see 28 Weeks Later at the […]

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Time Saturday Jun 30 2007 1:53am

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Author by Brian Tags under Comments with 4 comments

Just got back from watching Michael Moore’s latest: Sicko. It’s pretty much a straight-on indictment of why our healthcare industry is terrible, and a showcase of other countries’ healthcare systems (Canada, UK, France, Cuba). And while I know that Moore has a tendency to annoy some people with his presentation and antics, I’ve gotta […]

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Time Wednesday Jun 20 2007 6:25pm

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Author by Brian Tags under , , , Comments with 1 comment

Don’t worry, no religion here. Just good old fashioned post-apocalyptic speculation. I recently watched Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, and while it turned out to be less about the end of the Mayan civilization and more a spectacularly gory and dark action movie, it made me think - what would it be like to think the […]

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Time Monday Oct 30 2006 8:10am

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Author by Brendan Tags under , , Comments with 7 comments

Every so often unique things worm their way out of the woodwork. These are acts of genius, punctuating our existence. All the other times, it seems like works of art, culture, or any media are really just what the demographic target marketing ordered. In fact, oftentimes there will be two of something that appear […]

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