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Posts Tagged ‘Entertainment’

Best music of ‘09

Yeah, I’m late, but I might as well type up this list before we’re much further into 2010. It seemed like kind of a dull year for music. I did a lot of back-filling which should make for an even more compelling Best of the Oughts if I can ever get around to writing that. [...]

Killing my Idols

In an attempt to further understand the writing phenomenon of Joss Whedon, I have decided to attempt to watch the entire run of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Yes, dear reader, I am serious. So far, I’ve made it one whole episode and was so overcome with feeling, that I had to write about the experience.
Y’see, [...]

Thursday: A musical odyssey

I’ve mentioned my enthusiasm for Last.fm recently. It’s an interesting service whose value isn’t immediately obvious when you first look at it. It plays music? You think. Why would I want to tell them what I’m listening to? You ask. Aren’t I just giving them information for nothing? You wonder.
The value becomes apparent when Last.fm [...]

Free Music Downloads!

An internet citizen flying by the name of “john” just posted a reply to a 3-year old blog piece, titled, The Music Pirate Police are Now Mounted! A bit of a scare piece about copyright reforms in Canada which were eventually overturned and later ratcheted up several notches into what has become a terrifying legal [...]

From the “Why Can’t I Buy This?” department

If you’ve seen the movie There Will Be Blood, you probably wish that you had a full set of “There Will Be Blood” action figures, just like me. Imagine re-enacting the baptism scene with Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday. “I’ve abandoned my boy!”
Or sitting a fully poseable Daniel Plainview down in front of a room [...]

Fermat’s Last Theorem

“Fermat’s Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem” (Amir D. Azcel, Amir D. Aczel)
I read this on the flight into San Francisco yesterday. It’s been awhile since I’ve read a math story (I last read, “The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity” (Amir D. Aczel)). Amir [...]

Dark Messiah: A Might and Magic Joint

I went out last weekend and did a little video-game shopping. While I occasionally punctuate breaks in Halo3 with bouts of Rock Band, I do sometimes crave more singular adventures. So I rifled through the cheap bin at the local EB and picked up Dark Messiah Might and Magic Elements for $29.99.

“Dark Messiah of Might [...]

Heavy Rotation

This is just a shout-out to my heavy rotation page which I just updated. It’s got a list of some of the albums I’ve been listening to a lot lately, though to be honest, anything in my collection right now has to compete against the staggering “In Rainbows” by Radiohead. Since getting the disc box, [...]

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