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Bad Company Interview: Jamie Keen
Bad Company Interview: Jamie Keen [0] Gaming | 11th May 2008 Battlefield: Bad Company ruffled a lot of feathers recently when DICE said it would be charging players for access to certain weapons.
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sydney winter sounds like wellington summer.
http://www.coffee.geek.nz/ sydney_winter_sosydney winter sounds like wellington summer. tech I'm off to Sydney for a couple days, and so I asked twitter what to pack (i've never seen Australia in winter before) http://twitter.com/singingfish/statuses/808926042 I like the description - 10 to 25 degrees, not much rain, and a good supply of rainbow coloured umbrellas are on hand.
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NIN Challenges Music Business Model, Biofuels Compared, Widget Format, Google Reader Sharing Notes, Twitter Tools & Avatars
http://www.somewhatfrank.com/ 2008/ 05/ photo-of-the-we.htmlPhoto of the Week: This photo of tulips taken by Melissa Goodman would somewhat frankly make a nice gift for mom as I wish all the moms out there Happy Mother's Day. SOMEWHAT FRANK Weekly Tidbits: 5.11.2008 oEmbed:A Open Format for Embed Media (and Widgets?) oEmbed is the name of a proposed Open
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Magazines 2.0
http://mbf.blogs.com/ mbf/ 2008/ 05/ magazines-20.html"When I was a kid, getting a new magazine in the mail was a great experience. I’d come home from school and there it would be, waiting for me to read. The Internet has changed that. I hardly ever have time to read magazines anymore, I simply spend too much time sitting in front of the computer reading the 21st century equivalent to magazines (and newspapers), blogs.
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REVIEW: Astro A40 Headset
http://www.gamestooge.com/ 2008/ 05/ 11/ review-astro-a40-headset/[Originally reviewed by Neks0ne.] Seven years of competitive gaming (coupled with a compulsive audiophile enthusiasm) has led to many trial-and-error runs with a variety of audio systems. I have spent hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars trying to find the best sound quality.
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Zune To Get More Social!
http://www.bumpershine.com/ 2008/ 05/ 11/ zune-to-get-more-social.htmlZune users can now download their friends’ nine most recently played songs, as well as nine tunes flagged as favorites. If you are amongst the 4% of Americans that own Zunes, this is awesome news! The upgrade takes the community element a bit further by letting Zune users download each other’s nine most recently played songs, as well as nine tunes flagged as favorites.
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quarter of kiwis ready to leave their cars at home
http://www.coffee.geek.nz/ quarter_kiwis_rehttp://www.stuff.co.nz/4521911a10.html just WTF! one quarter? they must not have polled in Wellington. i'd say 80% of Wellingtonians leave their cars at home every single day -- that is assuming they even have a car, which a good chunk of them don't.
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Using Firefox on Public Computers
http://tametheweb.com/ 2008/ 05/ 11/ using-firefox-on-public-computers/Brian Herzog writes a perfect post on why Firefox could and should be used on public computers (emphasis mine): http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/05/08/using-firefox-on-our-public-computers My library is in the process of re-doing all of our public computers.
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'Expelled' And Creationism's Fundamental Dishonesty
http://www.windsofchange.net/ archives/ expelled_and_creationisms_fundamental_di…This doesn't happen every day: John Derbyshire writes a column that most of Winds' readership will agree with, as he covers Ben Stein's creationist movie Expelled: NO Intelligence Allowed. Now, over to Derb: "The misrepresentations in Expelled are far too numerous for me to list here, and the task is unnecessary since others have done it.
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Amazon Sues New York Over Sales Tax Requirement
http://www.bumpershine.com/ 2008/ 05/ 11/ amazon-sues-over-new-york-sales-tax-re…Well, at least this oughta tie things up in court for a couple years. Amazon has filed a lawsuit in New York contesting a controversial new state law requiring some online retailers to collect sales tax on purchases shipped to New York’s residents, even if they have no offices or employees there.
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TNT Magazine
http://www.masey.com.au/ blog/ index.php/ 2008/ 05/ tnt-magazine/As if you don't already have enough to keep you occupied during your precious online time during the week, I'm about to introduce you (well my Canadian mates anyway), to a London street magazine called TNT Magazine.