Thursday, October 08, 2009

Edgar Allan Poe finally getting proper funeral (160 years later!)

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Awright, before anyone get's too freaked-out: that is not the real Edgar Allan Poe in a pine box! But it is an incredibly life (or dea...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Dell closing Winston-Salem planet

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The state of North Carolina and local governments ponied-up $208 million in tax incentives and other deals in order to entice Dell to open ...
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Wednesday morning musing

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Modern wisdom is posterity's comedy.

Google celebrates birth of the bar code

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And they do it the only way that those sly minds at Google could do it: by rendering "Google" into a UPC symbol for the day! Scan...
Tuesday, October 06, 2009

I'm a "Creep"

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This was the scene last night at Backstreet Buzz Coffee House in Reidsville during karaoke, when I performed Radiohead's hit song ...
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Monday, October 05, 2009

First pic of Seth Rogen as THE GREEN HORNET (and something I'm dying to know about this movie...)

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Here's the first photo of Seth Rogen in costume from the upcoming The Green Hornet movie... Hmmm... dunno. Nicolas Cage has already bo...
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MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS is forty years old today!

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Says what it means. Means what it says. In celebration of this momentous occasion, here is the obligatory "Dead Parrot" sketch......

Windows 7 to come in Steve Ballmer signed edition

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Can you imagine the "Mac vs. PC" ads that Apple is gonna think up for this one? But it's true: Microsoft is releasing a ...
Sunday, October 04, 2009

Okay, I am compelled to ask...

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Why is Johnny Robertson dressed like Batman tonight? (Some have written to me asking if that's a bulletproof vest that Robertson is wear...
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THE TWILIGHT ZONE is 50 years old this weekend!

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On October 2nd, 1959, CBS premiered a new television series. Its creator, Rod Serling, had already established himself as a force to be rec...
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Saturday, October 03, 2009

The only existing film footage of Anne Frank

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From the Anne Frank House channel on YouTube ... Here's the clip's description... July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting marrie...

Cad Bane: Best new Star Wars baddie in a LONG time!

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Previously I'd noted that I've been late to the game so far as Cartoon Network's Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series goes...

I've newfound respect for the Olympics

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International Olympic Committee, congratulations: y'all did the way right thing in picking Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Summer Games. I...
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Friday, October 02, 2009

Doctor Emmett Brown has been targeted for termination!

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Skynet needs more gigawatts! How It Should Have Ended is famous across the 'Net for their perversely funny take on well-known movies. ...
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I can't label nothing no more...

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Yours Truly has gone hogwild with the labels feature ever since I first started using it about two years ago: Blogger has told me that there...
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U.S. unemployment hits 9.8%

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Last month employers across the country slashed more than a quarter-million jobs, sending the unemployment rate in America precariously clos...
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