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{ Monthly Archives } September 2009

Ong Bak 2: Available Now on VOD

But the interesting part is that it’s not out in theaters until October 23rd (that’s 23 days from the time of this writing). The whole “available now on VOD, Xbox Live, and Amazon” part seems a stark contrast to the “in theaters October 23rd” part, and while I applaud the effort/ingenuity, I have to wonder [...]

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The Album Is Dying A Slow Death

It’s like The Internet is a disease and it’s slowly damaging the organs of the album. One by one it goes through the body of the album, taking a chunk here and there. The album isn’t on life support yet, but it will be soon enough. From Read/WriteWeb: Radiohead’s frontman Thom Yorke announced that the [...]

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Book Recommendation: Talent Is Overrated

(The link is to the paperback which comes out in May 2010 – there is a hardcover available now) I read this book back in July and since then I’ve thought about it on almost a daily basis. The hypothesis, stated by itself, sounds fairly ridiculous because it comes down to: There is no such [...]

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Aardvark on the iPhone – Mobile Answers

The need to call my brother-in-law when I was out and needed access to a computer ended when I got my iPhone, but now Aardvark has taken that sort of help and said “Hey, you can ask hundreds of people’s brothers-in-law at the same time!” I’ve been a fan of Aardvark for some time now, [...]

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Jay-Z is on fire, and so is Lala.com

So, I just got The Blueprint 3. It’s $4.99 on Lala.com, but only $3.99 on Amazon. I got it from Lala to support the little guy. I decided it was worth $5 after only the first 7 songs – two of which I’d already got the “web version” of on Lala. It’s that good. But, [...]

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Facebook may end my run as the World’s Greatest Copycheater

Not only can you now use the Lite Facebook Interface – i.e., the Twitter Facebook Interface – but Facebook is also said to be (slowly) rolling out @ tagging of people in Status Updates. I actually posted a Status Update a while back pondering if Facebook were to add that feature, thereby eliminating my need [...]

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