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Archive for March, 2011

How Did the NYT Spend $40 mil on its PayWall?

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Wow. The New York Times spent a reported $40 million in coding and software development costs for its new PayWall.
Aside from wondering who will pay more than the cost of a Wall Street Journal subscription in order to subscribe to the New York Times, my biggest question right now is how the NY Times […]

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As I Predicted: Top Gear gets sued

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Remember what I said about Top Gear and it never ever being successful in the US due to its bullshit litigious society? Enter Exhibit A (of many Im sure to come).

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Where Have We Heard This Before?

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America is like a 3-Year Old child. A child that when you tell it not to do something, does it anyway. A child that never learns. Like a retard. The US is now going to arm the Libyan rebels. The US armed the Afghani Rebels (then called the Mujahideen) and it gave the world the […]

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TRON ATARI

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Recent Movie Viewings

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Lincoln Lawyer
Matthew McConaughey puts on his shirt and is back in A Time to Kill form as a lawyer defending a dubious white boy that may or may not have killed someone. A good thriller with excellent plot twists.

Love and Other Drugs
Not much to say about this one. A basic run of the mill […]

iPad as a gaming console

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I rekon SONY and Microsoft folks are watching where the iPad is headed with nervous breath. This is probably the best use of an iPad.

What Civil Liberties?

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Obama kills civil liberties yet again by cutting of miranda rights.
I miss the good old Bush days. First Obama goes back on his word about closing Gitmo and restarts the illegal trials there, now this. Meanwhile drone attacks kill civilians every day in Pakistan. And he is bombing the shit out of Libya […]

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